Alan Tang
1st October 2023 The Family (except Aloisius who’s on overseas duty) celebrated Mummy Dearest’s birthday with a nice Cantonese Dinner. Our children carefully selected the dishes to suit the diet of the entire family, young and elderly. The soup selected was Kudzu with beans and Pork Rump Meat. Must say the soup had sufficient “fire” (够火). Soup was delicious and all the kids loved it. As usual, I would always eat some of the soup ingredients, the kudzu was of good quality as well as the Pork Rump. The chef had made good effort to skim off the oil from the soup (from the pork rump). The Peking Duck didn’t fail, another favorite of the family. However, I felt there was inadequate cucumber slices in the wraps. The sweet sour pork was sufficiently flavored. It would be more authentic if chips of pineapples were included in the mix. Although the pork was well deep fried, it would be juicier if the chef used a little fattier cuts for the dish. Perhaps, the chef wanted to create a slightly “healthier” dish🤣🤣🤣. The adults loved the stir fried chye sim. We could detect the fragrance of rice wine when the dish was presented to the tables. There was indeed a strong wine flavor with generous serving of cordycep strips and goji berries. The adults literally finished the gravy like a soup (blurb)😋. But I had to stop wifey from consuming more as she has an alcohol allergy🤣🤣🤣. The Steam Soon Hock Fish was deliciously presented. However, we felt that the preparation was a little sloppy as scales were still stuck on the fins and tail of the fish. Although the family like the fish texture, personally I felt that it was a little overdone. Overall, a very good meal and the service staff were attentive. We commended on Winnie who served our table.  The restaurant decorated the birthday cake with longevity buns - the kids were excited/eyeing the cake while singing the birthday song to their Granny.🎊🎉🎂 Aloisius “joined us” through video conferencing.