Chinese farmhouse dishes @ MX

Ever since Maxim's MX introduced the Farmhouse dishes series I have always wanted to try it.

 

There are many dishes in the series, but the two I wanted to try were the fish patty with long beans, and the lemon chicken. Apparently there are alot of different dishes in that series.

The whole concept is brilliant, but the marketing let it down.

It was hard to find out which dishes were being served in advance, there was nothing on their website or restaurant.
Instead, I had to check the menu there everynow and then.
Once I walked past and it was serving braised pig's tail and peanuts which sounds interesting.

Finally, they had the ones I wanted to try, but the soup that day was beef, not fish maw and sweetcorn that I wanted to try.

I do not eat at Maxim's MX much, because the menu is confusing, but this time I was impressed at the organisation, as you collect the food when the number is called out.
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Egg and beef thick soup
This was light and slightly viscous, with lots of beef in it.
The beef had been soda-rized, so it was soft.
There was some spring onion and coriander garnishing on top.
I liked the soup, but I didnt like the film of oil they put on top even though its for cosmetic purposes.
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Lemon Chicken
The chicken was served on a pile of fried vermicelli, the lemon sauce tasted how it should, however the chicken was slightly dry.
The chicken had chicken skin and was not coated in flour and fried.
I would have preferred if the chicken was cut into smaller managable pieces.
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Fish patty with long beans
This was the dish that got my attention, and it also was the best!
With usual fish patty from the market, or restaurants that serve it, it always contains grounded bones, unless you go to the overly expensive places.
The fish patty here did not contain any bones, I felt safe eating it knowing, I would not get any piercing injuries in my mouth.
The patty seemed to have chicken in it as well, it was firmer than the usual fish patty, and the colour was slightly different, not so grey, but a peachy colour.
Before the patty was cooked, a coiled up long green bean was curled up like a coil and affixed to the patty by being pressed on top of the patty.
The patties were then served in rich brown gravy which contained black bean, slight chili and orange peel.
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Stir fried prawns and cucumber
This dish was very light, well suited for the eldery apart from the prawns.
Anyway, the cucumber could have been cut to smaller pieces, it was too big and kept slipping when using chopsticks to pick them up.
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Fish maw and sweetcorn soup
The soup which I was long awaiting for didnt taste as good as the beef one.
It tasted of sesame oil.
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Overall, I felt that the Farmhouse dishes were very impressive, the quality was as good as the dishes in specialised Cantonese cuisine places.
If only the marketing was better with information available on their website with the daily specials, or a menu timetable with the full range of dishes that they plan to serve.