Dracoholic brought us for a yummy Shanghainese meal to celebrate someone's birthday. Oh what a yummy meal it was! Don't mind the creaking floorboards & teeny tiny toilet, though.
Oh what a sumptuous meal!
The starters all came together, which the staff placed on the edge of the lazy susan for easy reach. This is what we had:
Marinated jellyfish. This jellyfish dish consisted of bigger-than-normal chucks of jellyfish. I like this size of jellyfish, as it seems like a more substantial mouthful. Nice.
Marinated Japanese Cucumber. Abit spicy.
Vegetarian dish. Consisted of some sort of beancurd, mushroom & preseved vegetable.
Post starters (On to the main stuff!!):
Fish soup. They didn't cheat & add milk to make the soup milky. They spent hours boiling fish bones for the milky broth. Tasty.
Vegetable dish. Love the mushrooms & jews ears & wolfberries in it!
Jews ears & clear noodle (I suspect it's made from sweet potato flour) in the soup. I was slightly annoyed to find fish bones in the soup as well, but I guess it can't be helped.
Oh what is this cute little piglet?
AH! 3 Layered Pork. Served with the buns to be eaten together like a mini sandwich. I scraped off all the fats. Scarily fatty, it is.
Mushroom, sea cucumber & bamboo shoot. Yum-O! I love all the ingredients in this dish & the best thing is that the bamboo shoots don't have that horrid smell to it.
Cod Fish in Crab Roe Sauce. The sauce is excellent! Great dish!
Prawns. Done well. The prawns retained their crunchy texture. Dracoholic recommends a drop of black vinegar to go with it to bring out the taste of the prawns, but I may have dripped a drop too much & the vinegar over-powered the taste of the prawns. Oh well.
AH! 3 Layered Pork. Served with the buns to be eaten together like a mini sandwich. I scraped off all the fats. Scarily fatty, it is.
There was also a noodle to end the meal, as no Chinese restaurant sit-down meal would be complete without it. I did not take a picture, as I forgot, but the noodles were only so-so.
2 comments:
Glad you enjoyed it :) Hopefully when their Dim sum Chef is back we can try the XLP.
Yea, the food there is quite exquisite. Pity about the corkage!
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