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| - Since it was Chrismas, my family and I decided to come to OMEI and splurge our money on the seafood here. We ended up getting our all-time favourite dish which was the lobster. I'm starting to believe that the farther i drive, the better the food quality is because the lobster we got was about 5 pounds! (VERY BIG!). Since our table was very small, we only decided to get our lobster cooked 2 ways which was the steamed claws in scallion with clear vermicelli and the rest sauteed in onions and soy sauce. The meat was very soft and not dry (perfectly cooked).
We also tried OMEI's very popular and famous 'Buddha Jumping Over Wall' Soup which goes for about $34 per urn! Yes, it was a major wallet burn for me but the soup was very rich in taste and hearty as it was filled with bamboo shoots, scallops, sea cucumber, abalone, shark fin, ginseng and mushrooms.This dish is suppose to be a Chinese delicacy as it uses high-quality ingredients and when eaten, it is healthy and good for the body! (pretty cool!)
We also ordered a special 'flat fish' that was steamed in soy sauce which had very unique flavour and texture to it. Definetly something different from the other Chinese restaurants I've tried.
The only thing I've noticed about their dishes were that all of them were just a tad bit salty but other than that I think the food would have been fine (I just drank ALOT of water).
Overall ambience was clean and decent. Service was attentive. I'll probably only come here next time for the famous soup though, everything else was good but just a bit pricer for what you get.
PS. the desserts here are GREAT! NOT Red Bean Soup for once! Instead they give you a great Purple Rice Pudding and Mango Moochi! yumm!
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