I’d originally wanted to go to Maxim’s Palace at City Hall for dim sum, but there’s no way that I would wake up in time to beat the rush there or at many other joints like Yung Kee or Tim Ho Wan. I was someone's guest so no complains from me there and then but I would not consider this a good seafood restaurant.After getting into Central abysmally late, following numerous delays on China Spring Airlines (the Chinese equivalent of every bad American or European discount airline you can think of) leaving Pudong and an impossibly long foreigners visa queue at the Hong Kong airport, then cabbing to my friend Arthur’s place in Aberdeen and waiting up til 2:30am on the Saturday morning for the McDonald’s delivery (out of Big Macs! travesty!) – Saturday was bound to start late. And as soon as it cooled down a little it tasted very fishy! The soup with real crab meat was a disappointment, it had something crunchy in it we could not quite identify.

To miao or young pea shoots were not young or tender but they were cooked nicely with a little garlic. The beef with mix of mushrooms was ok, too thickly covered with caramelized hoisin sauce. The Peking duck (skin and drum sticks) was good, as was the side dish( rest of duck with tofu. They only had scallops in the shell at $10 per piece so we skipped that. We wanted to order scallops with asparagus- a fairly common dish. We compromised on salt and pepper prawns but the taste and texture were mediocre, not fresh. The waiter kept pushing river prawns as special of the day, how it was $25 here but the store was selling them at $28! My host wanted wasabi prawns, which they do not cook. Our host went to check on the 'Fresh fish in the tank' but they looked pathetic and listless, so we skipped that. Since this is a seafood place, we tried to order seafood. So I ended up translating for my host in Cantonese. The waiter that served us could barely speak English. All guests were seated in central area outside kitchen. Thankfully they left after packing up their leftovers. We asked for a quiet table so we could talk but were placed next to children playing very loudly. MoreĮight adults came for dinner on a Monday night. In all i find the food slightly too salty as i had to drink a lot of water during the meal. The fried rice was good and the sauce was tasty. Lastly we had a fried rice with Fu Gian meat sauce. The vegetable was slightly too chewy even though the broth was good. The fourth dish was a vegetable dish with garlic cooked in a broth. It needed a bit of colour contrast with a second vegetable to bring some colour to the dish. The food was tasty but again presentation was really lacking as the tofu and grouper were both brown. The third dish was braised fried tofu and grouper. The second vegetable dish was green beans and mushrooms. Although the crab was fresh, the presentation was really lacking to say the least! The pot that they served the crab in was way too small. It was prepared with fine vermicelli noodles. jelly fish.įor mains, we chose a dish with a live crab. We started with two appetizers : fried pumpkin sticks and. The fish tank had live crabs, fishes, shrimps and other seafood. There were plenty to choose from the menu. I visited San Francisco last week and we had a family dinner on Saturday, Nov 2. Sushi Restaurants for Lunch in Daly City.Mexican Restaurants for Lunch in Daly City.JEN Singapore Orchardgateway by Shangri-La.Hotels near (OAK) Metropolitan Oakland Intl Airport.Hotels near (SJC) Mineta San Jose Intl Airport.Hotels near The Karaite Jews Of America.Daly City Hotels with Laundry Facilities.

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