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| - This was almost a 4. Came for my cousin's wedding last Saturday night. Private room, which was nice.
Had: some super expensive banquet meal.
Roasted piglet - juicy meat, crispy skin, but not the best I've ever had. I'd give it a 3.5/5.
Stir-fried snow peas, celery, scallop, conch - Conch was delicious. The rest of it was fairly standard.
Shark fin soup with crab meat - good amount of shark fin. Real crab meat. My gripe with this was that it had the strangest consistency. It was slimy (like snot). It did not drip. It was gooey. The broth was also quite bland.
Snow pea shoots with abalone and sea cucumber - abalone was tender. Snow pea shoots were fresh and delicious. They cooked the snow pea shoots in our room, so they were still super hot when they served them to us.
Crispy chicken - crispy skin, tender meat.
Lobster stir fried with maggi sauce - Typical.
I believe it was steamed bass, but I could have been mistaken - I'm not usually a big fan of steamed fish at restaurants (I prefer it at home), but this was delicious.
E-fu noodles in broth with dumpling - I am not a fan of e-fu in broth. I like my e-fu braised or wok-fried. This was alright. Dumpling had a thin skin and a lot of shrimp and Chinese fungus in it. The filling was a tad chunky for me though.
Abalone fried rice - looks like yeung chow fried rice, but with what looks like bits of Chinese shiitake mushroom. Not mushroom. Abalone. Good amount of abalone. Tender abalone. Delicious fried rice.
Desserts - assorted cookies, peanut sweet soup with black bean glutinous rice dumplings. Peanut soup was not fragrant enough. It was also the same gooey, slimy texture as the shark fin soup. Cookies were not bad.
Service was quite good. I'm docking marks for the consistencies of both the shark fin soup and the dessert soup. Other than that, not bad.
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