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| - We came here for a wedding reception, so my review is based solely on banquet style dinner.
The space itself is typical of Cantonese style banquet restaurants: a bit gaudy with lots of red and gold accents. Furnishings were reflective of that too. Wait staff dressed cleanly and professionally in black and red garments, and all were very well disciplined. The operations really reminded me of how wait staff is overseas in China.
Anyhow, we arrived around 6:30pm for the start of the dinner reception, and it was very easy to locate the banquet room. They portion off the left side to the banquet room, and then the right side is the main dining room. The location of the restaurant itself is next to No Frills market, and is hidden to the left side, so just keep your eye out once you enter the plaza.
We were seated, and dinner service started within 20 minutes. Typically, when you go to Chinese banquet restaurants, the flow and start of dinner gets pushed back often. However, Casa Victoria did not have this issue, and we were super happy about that. We were STARVING by the time dinner rolled around, so I'm glad the staff read our minds to feed our tummies. :)
Dinner consisted of a 12-course banquet dinner. It started off with the half roasted suckling pig. Ordinarily, I'm not a huge fan of eating animal skin since it's too fatty and greasy. However, the skin on the pig was crispy and not too thick. It was well-balanced with the moist texture of the meat.
We then had the a stir-fry dish consisting of prawns, chicken and fish fillets, sugar snap peas, and fried bird's nest. Again, not greasy and well seasoned, probably one of my favorites of the night. Though the flavor was chicken-based, there wasn't any of that artificial chicken essence that a lot of Chinese restaurants use.
The next few courses consisted of braised abalone with mushrooms and baby bok choy, broccoli with dried scallops stuffed in squash, abalone seafood soup, roasted crispy chicken, lobster with ginger and scallions, steamed green bass in a soy ginger scallions sauce. All were consistently good, but our favorites were the braised abalone with mushrooms and veg, steamed fish, and chicken. Lobster would have been a home run had it not been overcooked.
The end of the night was sweetened with some fried rice in a tomato sauce, braised E-Fu noodles, and red bean soup with orange peel. Staff in the beginning were a bit rushed, and cleared plates at a pretty rapid pace, but after the first 2 courses, they slowed down a bit, and the pacing was good. Each personnel was friendly, and kept refilling the tea pots at a good rate.
We had a lovely experience here, not only because it was for our friends' wedding reception, but the staff did an excellent job handling the 10 tables of hungry guests. :) Food was fresh and light with great flavors.
Next time, I'd be interested to try their dim sum menu, but I'd give a solid recommendation for this place if you're planning on hosting a big dinner event.
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