Once in a while you feel like having traditional Chinese foods, you know the ones you grew up with when it’s a special occasion. Peking Duck, Chinese Jujube pancakes, Shanghai Noodles etc. I had this craving for Peking Duck and last sunday i asked if everyone in the family would be willing to go for a nice lunch. Luckily they agreed and so we set off, no traffic and we reached in ample time. Now a history lesson, this restaurant has been open for ever since i’m a little girl maybe before, the doorman used to be in his early 20’s now he’s got grey hair so go figure! They have limited menu but the ingredients are top notch and so is the pricing! Here’s what we had…
Must say, the noodles were cooked great! Sometimes the egg noodles (bamee) comes over done and mushy. It was very yummy with the juicy spicy shrimp.
I admit, you must think what is that weird green goo on top? The best explanation is like a salsa verde, but the Chinese use a pickled mustard green i think. There will be transparent rolled up noodle sheets and at some places are flat (imagine rolled up paper) chewy, topped with sliced pork. Now this shows the talent of the old chefs here, the sliced pork was moist and juicy. Right??? I mean it’s very hard to even get it right at a shabu shabu and they didn’t even use belly pork, it was all loin and very yummy. The green goo on top was spicy, savory and sourish. A pickled yummy goodness. Hard to find nowadays.
Now for the highlight of the lunch, Peking Duck. Crispy, yummy paperthin slices of roasted duck skin on our roti, with chillies, spring onion, crunchy cucumber and sweet hoisin sauce. Roll it up and eat eat eat. A duck is too small!!!! Usually when you order Pekin duck they will ask whether you will use the remaining duck as a soup or fried with black pepper and garlic. We chose the latter. Usually we wrap it up and keep to eat the next morning with plain congee. It works amazingly well that way. Salty and plain hot congee. YUM!
We also ordered a 4 Chinese Veggie dish. It’s not all veggies, it comes with a sauteed Chinese savoy cabbage, mustard green, mushrooms and Chinese moss seaweed in a light pale gravy. The different textures work well together, it’s good topped over hot rice.
This was more than enough for 4 people, it was delicious and comforting. A blast to the past really. The Chinese jujube pancakes were nice, hot, crispy, savory and sweet at the same time. Many shops are not able to get the ratio of filling to the crunchy flour right, think quesadilla, 2 thin flour pancakes and a sweet filling crunchy crispy soft oozy filling. Very good.
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