Came here for dinner with some friends on a COLD Wednesday evening. My friend has been wanting to come here since this one opened. I and another friend had came here previously and had pretty good experience.
She wanted a specific style of cooked crab which is directly translated to "typhoon shelter crab" but in Cantonese, its "bei fung tong" style. Its a style where the crab is lightly battered and fried, topped and quickly tossed in a mountain of chopped garlic and chili. Their style had a slightly sweet sauce tossed with the crab (similar to something like the thai style sweet chili sauce) with the garlic and chili. Technically this item isn't on the menu but still critiquing their version of it anyway. Crab itself was a decent size. The meat texture was a bit soft, usually meaning its not so fresh. The first time I came here, the meat texture was perfectly fresh. Super good. This time was a bit disappointing. Flavor wise, it was pretty good. Tho the sweet chili sauce was kind of different because I believe the normal version is more of a dry style seasoned with salt n pepper. The garlic was still yummy but the chilis were not spicy at all.
Aside from the crab, we had ordered fermented bean curd chili on choy, soy sauce chicken (because a review said it was good), and sweet and sour pork chop.
Fermented bean curd with sliced chili On choy is a favorite of my friends and we typically order it almost every time we go to a Chinese restaurant. Good amount and flavored well. Same about the chilis not being spicy but at least overall it was good.
Sweet and sour pork chop... is sweet n sour pork chop... XD our uh not Chinese friend (but still Asian... tryin not to name names here...) still enjoyed it.
Soy sauce chicken was probably the most disappointing one. Amount was small even for a half order. Meat was tough. Not sure what kind of chicken they use. I'd assume its the frozen type but judging by size, it may be a range-free one. The flavor of the soy sauce they use was a little less sweet than from what I'm used to (great to mix with plain white rice.. XD).
Aside from the 4 dishes we ordered, we were served with their house soup which I believe was a winter melon soup and a red bean soup dessert at the end of our meal. The soup was good though they didn't ask if we wanted more of the soup. (it was a cold evening and i was super hungry after work as i had not eating since before work like 11 hours prior) The red bean soup was a bit thin and the red bean were all completely masserated