Good customer service depends on what time you go @ 北方餃子源

After reading the reviews, it was considered lucky if the waiters did not treat you with a bad manner.

Knowing that, I went on a weekday during off peak hours late in the afternoon but just before dinnertime started.
It was on Queen’s road near the blue house, the outside of the restaurant looked very old.
When I went in, the interior and everything was old too, there was only two customers when I arrived so I sat down on one of the tables because there was no waiter there to tell me where to sit.

 

It was really good because they had an English menu and I could take my time deciding what to order.
Usually HK waiters’ rush you to order, but since it was off-peak hours, I had to wait for the waiter to finish his duties before I could order.

I wanted to try this place especially because of the donkey meat, fish dumplings, shredded chicken with vegetable rice and the spring onion sauce.
They didnt have the fish dumplings so I ordered: sliced donkey meat, lamb and spring onion dumplings, Hawthorn drink, shredded chicken with vegetable rice.

I do not know who the famous bad tempered one is, but the one who served me was smiling.

The food arrived fairly quick and was served in the typical blue white chinaware.

 

The bowl of rice was huge which was enough for two people, I have never seen a big blue white china bowl in that size before.

massive china bowl, regular size on top corner

 

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Sliced donkey meat
The donkey meat was flavoured by the so-called Chinese Five-spice powder.
Five-spice powder is basically a mixture of five spices star anise, cloves, Chinese cinnamon, Sichuan pepper and fennel seeds.
The texture of the meat looked and tasted like Pastrami, however it was sliced thickly, the gelatinous layers were thick too, and there was some jelly on the edges as well.
I was expecting it to taste gamey, but it wasn’t, it tasted exactly like pastrami.
I think it would also taste good with western mustard sauce.

donkey meat

 

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Lamb and spring onion dumplings
I wanted to order the fish dumplings as well, but the menu has changed.
The lamb was good as well, the lamb was not gamey and the strong spring onions complemented it. The spring onions were not over cooked and had some crunch to it like raw onions. The skin was just right and not too thick.

Spring onion n lamb dumplings

 

 

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Hawthorn drink
Just tasted like Chinese Ribena!
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Vegetable Rice with shredded chicken

 

I was not expecting the portion to be so big but it was enough for two people, luckily I did not order too much. I was originally going to order the fish dumplings but it was not on the menu.
Anyway it was fairly big pieces of chicken on top of rice mixed with chopped Chinese choy sum.
The chicken used was thigh meat.
On the side there was some finely chopped spring onion sauce, which I had been longing to try.

delicious chopped spring onions, garlic n chili

 

The rice and chicken accompanied by the chopped spring onion sauce was really nice.
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Overall the food was good, and I'll be back if I happen to be around during non-peak hours.