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2010-11-12
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it was the second time we visited this place. The first time was last saturday, we were so eager to have the hotpot (lamb-beijing style loudly advertised on its external neon sign) that we walked up the time tunnel up the stairs back to 1966. it is not a big shop,cosy, with an almost retro fitting of a dining room where my parents used to took the whole family out for a weekend dinner.The client are mainly foreigners - westerners and a lot of japanese.The hotpot we ordered was exceptionally we
The first time was last saturday, we were so eager to have the hotpot (lamb-beijing style loudly advertised on its external neon sign) that we walked up the time tunnel up the stairs back to 1966. it is not a big shop,cosy, with an almost retro fitting of a dining room where my parents used to took the whole family out for a weekend dinner.
The client are mainly foreigners - westerners and a lot of japanese.
The hotpot we ordered was exceptionally well prepared. We had a twin pot with clear soup and ma-chilli on each side, We tried the lamb, dumplings and chilled tofu. The raw materials are all well sliced, nicely prepared and we have no complain on anything except they wont let us use the copper pot (remember those with a chimmney in the middle?) already stored away in the glass display cabinet.
Actually the glass display cabinet, with all the tiny gadgets (tiny wine glasses, photos with celebrities, wines half emptied with a name tag of s/o) are so romantically Hong Kong in its 70s-80s, when there were a lot more such kind of Beijing-shanghai-sichuan mixed style restaurants on the street with its low price tag and welcome-all-kind of style. That nite we also washed down a few bottles of Tsing Tao merrily.
Hence the second visit.
This time we wanted to sample typical simple beijing food = fried noodle + dumplings + wok stir fired lamb. It was less of an impressive cooking of slightly blanded taste and color. The place was also much quieter on the weekdays with a stillness you can feel in the air. I have absolutely no complain on the food, they were all thankfully consumed.
It was really one of the unique dining experiences in TST, though food is not superb, but it is a rarity with a certain quality / aura that we should all cherish.
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