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| - Finally got a chance to try this new Chinese fusion restaurant by Susur Lee. It was difficult to make reservations, at the time I called, they said there was only the chef's table area left but they were able to give us a table at the dinning room. When we got there, the place was pretty packed with people eating already and as we dined, more came to pack the room. The service was pretty quick, we got in and out within an hour ... very unusual for a downtown restaurant.
The decor was ancient China, with Chinese words, decorations, paintings. For appetizers, we all got the Luckee duck - it was 4 pieces of Peking style duck, wrappers and sauce. I was really surprised it had that many pieces of duck and wrappers. Usually in the Chinese setting, there is only 1-2 wrapper to go around. The duck skin was crispy and the meat was tender, very delicious. My only comment would be that I still like it served with cucumbers and parsley like the traditional way instead of with coleslaw.
Next came the mains, I got the 5 spice chicken with cauliflower purée, baby spinach, orange & lily bulb, honey miso dressing. There were 3 pieces of chicken wrapped with battered and fried. I didn't taste much of the 5 spice in the chicken, and with the cauliflower puree, the dish was quite blend, so if you like flavour on the light side, you would enjoy this more. The others got the baked black cod with pickled beets, crispy bean curd skin & lotus root, chipotle tartar sauce. The cod was very flavourful with the soya marinated and with the chipotle sauce, a much stronger taste compared to the chicken. I prefer the cod more in this category.
For dessert, we got the trio - Chocolate sponge roll, Sesame rice donut and vanilla ice cream. It was good we got all 3 desserts to eat as I couldn't decide which one I wanted. My favourite was the seasme rice donut, freshly prepared so the crust was not oily, filled with warm lotus paste and egg yolk, delicious! It is the best one I have eaten in my life, better than those I have at dim sum time, and yes, even the ones I've had in HK. I wish I got more of that. The chocolate sponge roll was good as well, layer of sponge cake with chocolate sauce spread and roll into a roll. The chocolate was not that sweet so it wasn't overpowering. The vanilla ice-cream was nothing out of the ordinary, thought the menu said it is drizzled with salted caramel sauce but we didn't get any of that on our ice-cream. Maybe that was what was missing to make it taste better.
Then our bill came with a bamboo basket of fortune cookies. It was a very cute presentation. Overall, it was worth the $35 dinner price, service was good, food was delicious.
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