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Hong Kong: TOP END Chinese Food, price not an issue
here. Location is also not convenient. But it is a top notch Chiu Chow food. Price can be cheap or very expensive, depends on what you order. I had the best shark fin ( 紅燒潮州翅) here or anywhere else, very delicious cold crab (冷蟹),...
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seven wives
Since no one responded, I guess I’ll have to answer myself. We started out with a decent shark fin soup with dried scallops. The second course was a very good peking duck (skin only) with good fresh small pancakes. We got...
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Snake Blood Drink
I have gutted and skinned 50 inch, 8 pound rattlesnakes that would not have yielded half a thimble of blood. I think there’s some hyperbole and myth at work here. If it’s a macho thing that can substitute for shark...
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Report - New Fortune Chow Lunch 12/31
(Daniel K – organizer, Steve, Harold, PollyG, JamesG & guest) and one inspiring chowpup tasted great nibbles including: Sharks Fin, Beef Tripe, Steamed Pork Buns, Rice Crepe Noodle (yum, but slippery), Fun Gor (first...
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Sea Harbour report - excellent dim sum
banana for dessert and the shark's fin dumpling, but we were too full.
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Great Authentic Chinese Rest uptown?
can often have something great at a fraction of that price. Unfair, I know, to be willing to pay less for great Chinese food, but I judge based on market rate). Granted I had the shark's fin soup meal, which upped the ante...
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Kirin Report (LONG)
usual to make it savory. CRAB AND SHARK'S FIN SOUP: this fell far short of my expectations. There were large chunks of crab throughout, but the soup itself was thin and bland. I much prefer a thick (starchy) shark's fin soup with...
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Tysons Buffet
including "shark fin" soup, and this was all during lunch time. I hear the price is $13.65 for lunch, but my question for those who’ve eaten at this place before is what do they serve that is different during dinner time, as...
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Cafe Sierra -Seafood Buffet
more spicy. I keep hearing about Shark Fin Soup, which I was really looking forward to, but none was to be had this evening. Guess we caught the wrong night. Some frown at the $31.95 price, but the selections definately make it...
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Prince Restaurant: the best Cantonese food in NY
a bowl of shark's fin soup with a broth that was subtley fragrant, complex and delicious (which is my way of saying “I have no idea exactly what was in there, but man, you could tell they used a tiny bit of a lot of...
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Golden Bull Restaurant (longish)
soup (shark fin like consisteny, needeed vinegar from the potstickers to bring out the flavor), Crispy cantonese style chow mein with pike (excellent), chicken and black mushroom casserole best of the night IMO), walnut shrtimp...
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Hong Kong Restaurant in Mountain View?
geoduck but it is probably something else they call it gwai fei pong) - $7 Lotus root with spare ribs (leen ngau pai gwut) - $12 Taro with preserved duck clay pot (Wu tau lap ngap bo) - $9.50 Something cripsy skin tofu - $10...
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*****Gruener Veltliner and Hong Kong Seafood Chowdown Update****
will be approximately $50 per person. The exact GV wines to be served and cost of wines are still to be determined. We recommend that each person bring two or more wine glasses with them. There will be no sharks fin soup or sea...
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Dim Sum at City View
, as it was packed by noon time. My favorite dishes were the cha siu so (bbq pork in flaky pastry), bell peppers stuffed with shrimp forcemeat, the steamed sharks fin dumpling crowned with a whole prawn, and sesame ball dessert....
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Chinese New Year's Dinner, Tues @ 7:30
(g)...Anyway, it was $20, so I ordered it..I begged, really!! Send a white girl to order New Years dinner..... ;) Ya know, Shark Fin Soup is $140.....There are a lot of us...hmmmm....
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