After hearing so much good reviews plus attractive dishes, decided to suss out the place at lunch time. Unfortunately even though I really wanted to try the signature dishes of Crystal Prawns, Beggar Chicken, Grilled Beef shortrib slices, Goose Liver, Stir Fried Beef, etc, we did not ended up trying them out.
Had the folloing Dim Sims, which were quite disappointing. If this restaurant is suppose to be of such a high standard, I don't understand why they cannot get each and every item right - this is a pet peeve or mine. Why are only 2-4 signature dishes good in a restaurant boasting of 50+ menus, whereas all the other ones fall below expectations? QUANTITY is better than quality? Or is that a Chinese mentality? - if a restaurant has intentions to be a Top Restaurant, I would rather they make more than 60-70% of the dishes correctly, and the first step is to cut back on the menu items which are irrelevant and gap fillers :
蟹皇燒賣 - This was quite good but not exceptional. 8/10
虾交 - not bad, but skin thick. Prawn could be more crunchy and less floury. 7.5/10
潮式蒸粉果 - Looked over-cooked, but didn't try.
叉燒包 - Inedible, very bad. Hard exterior bread, inside was too sweet and tough meat. 4/10.
包鱼鳋 - Worst dim sim. Cannot compare to Lung King Heen or even Maxim's. Tang Palace was better than here. Filled with corn and chicken, hardly any abalone nor any specific taste but chicken creamy taste (from Campbell's canned soup). Skin was crumpling apart, no taste either. 1/10.
茶粿 - Signature dim sim, was quite good indeed. Surprisingly, slightly too sweet a meat inside, and not a lot of complexity. Nice external sticky rice texture though. 8.5/10
Egg Tart - No egg taste, pastry no pastry taste. Ordinary, though not bad. 6/10.
Noodles with Abalone - Green healthy noodles, but little taste and character. 2/10
Fried Rice Paper Roll in Soy Sauce with Bean Sprout - outright poor. Little soy taste, little wok chi taste, little rice taste. Bean sprouts not crunchy, no wok chi, not tasty. Only consolation is that the Rice Paper Sheets were of the right, chewy yet smooth texture despite being bland. 2/10.
Overall, not going to come for Yum Cha again.
Dinner however - might be another story.
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