Wan Chai Corner is a new place on the corner at 3 Gerrard street. A casserole of braised abalone, sea cucumber, fish lips, duck webs, shiitake mushrooms and mustard greens was fairly well rendered. The skin and tendon on the duck...

Abalone and mushroom in abalone shell Duck breast slices Seaweed in dashi Herring Roe with strips of Kelp (Kelp is associated with joy. Herring roe symbolizes the wish for many babies. I was fearful of eating this...) Daikon and...

, maybe they use imitation abalone? haha) while other members in the party ordered the octopus & kimchi and the beef & mushroom. It took a while for the food to arrive (everything is apparently made to order) but when the food...

. No one chews abalone jerky. The stuff is all hydrated before cooking. Did you notice the bags and bags of dried mushrooms? Again, typically more expensive than fresh and need to be reconstituted in water and considered much more...

of vegetable matter acted as textural add-ons and confetti. Not sure why, but it reminded me of sauerkraut. Bits of nuts were sprinkled on for crunch. Disconcertingly, the fish was lukewarm. THIRD COURSE: Sauteed Abalone in Foil...

order. Service is still the curt but friendly. Our table had razor clams in black bean sauce, sliced conch with abalone mushrooms, flounder with mixed vegetables, shrimp with mayo and walnuts, and flowering chives. The razor clams...

$) King Crab Gui (37$) or abalone steak (32$), grilled chicken w/ oyster mushrooms (18$) are certainly tempting sounding. So far they’re only open for dinner, but the people at the door are very nice and I asked if they do...

it was slightly overly chewy, but that can often be the case with abalone. The yuba papardelle with mushroom dashi was much better than I could have imagined. Very warm and comforting. Next was wild mushroom raviolo. The flavors...

Dinner last night at 44 Belden Place (hence B44). I had a suquet of monkfish, shrimp and mushrooms. (Don’t know the exact name of the dish. I only remember the parts. Suquet. Monkfish. Shrimp. This is a 2-cylinder report,...

(next table had this) Abalone Mushroom Dumplings Crab-Meat Dumplings (in translucent green wrappers – next table had this) The dinner menu looked amazing. One item I saw in the pictured dinner menu that is missing in the...

-chestnut in a golden-fried wonton fold -Rich Seafood bisque soup swirling with shreds of shark’s fin & fresh crabmeat -Braised Japanese dried abalone, oyster mushrooms & vegetable -Deep-fried Cornish hen flavored with truffle...

meat and tuna lettuce cup come to mind. They also had abalone mushroom, rack of lamb and suckling pig, so if you like this stuff you’ll get your money’s worth.

(beef stew, braised veggies with "abalone" mushrooms, sea cucumber with asparagus) and they were all very good: fresh-tasting, not at all oily or oversalted (a big concern with my high blood-pressure family.) On a whim, we also...

), $5.95 Pan-fried tofu with gai lan, $5.95 Big pea shoots with roasted garlic, $9.95 Steamed and salted chicken (half) with ginger oil, $7.95 Taro and Chinese bacon claypot, $6.95 Scallops with XO sauce, $8.95 Abalone mushrooms with...

and the preparation/flavor wasn’t better than at a typical Chinese restaurant. Spinach and mushrooms in abalone sauce — the most surprising dish we ordered. A large plate of perfectly braised spinach was heaped with at...