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| - If you want peking duck served in two courses at a reasonable price, this is the place. The first course: bronzed, juicy, melt-in-your mouth richness elevated by the spicy/sweet hoisin and the greasiness cut with the shreds of green onion and cool sticks of cucumber. The pancakes are hot, thin, slightly sticky/sweet, and there are plenty of them.
For the second course, you are better off going with the "boneless" option. I have had both, and though the boneless option is greasy, the bone-in option is almost impossible to eat in polite society. It is hard to get at those miniscule bits of meat hidden in all the bones!
I would also recommend the seafood and vegetables in the taro basket and the fresh steamed fish. The fish, of course, was super fresh. They have fish tanks there. The scallop/shrimp/squid in the vegetable stir fry were resilient and not mushy and seasoned lightly but well.
Avoid the house brisket, though. I ordered it by mistake, thinking it was the brisket/turnip stew. What came was thinly sliced grey meat spread out on a plate carpaccio style. It was just boiled meat, no flavour, no seasoning and just awful.
Service is rushed and rude. There is no other way to describe it.
But I will keep coming back. It is fast, it is cheap and it is filling...and depending on what you order...extremely tasty.
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