Weird but nice! Creamy garlic and black bean sauce

Saw this weird dish so decided to get it.

It was a baked dish.
Usually the Chinese baked dishes are tomato sauce or cheese based with seafood or pork chops.

However this one was garlic and black bean, and usually in Chinese cooking it is in the form of a clear gravy, but the sauce for this dish was creamy!!!! Not like the traditionary clear brown gravy with garlic and black beans.

I assumed it was going to be served in a ceramic dish with the rice beneath the fish, but the rice was served separately and it was plain boiled rice too which is better than fried rice.

The fish was on a bed of vegetables including Aubergine, carrots and potatoes.

 

The potatoes tasted and looked like English roast potatoes.

 

Although the baked dish tried to be slightly different to the usual Chinese baked dish, there was still a piece of processed cheese on top.

 

Without the cheese, it still would have tasted nice.

The sauce was quite nice, it was a bit like gravy with the black bean flavouring, however I would have preferred a stronger black bean taste.
The colour and consistency reminded me of Chinese black pepper steak gravy but without the pepperiness.

At the bottom of the dish there was about a teaspoon of oil.

 

Lastly the low sugar green tea was too sweet.

Low sugar but super sweet!

Maxim's countryside breakfast set

I tried the Countryside breakfast because I like potatoes and not many places serve this style of potatoes with breakfast unless you are in spain.

When I saw the advert for this, I felt that the breakfast was more Spanish than European.

Anyway, the countryside set comes with stir-fried potatoes and their so called "European sausage" with a choice of bacon, egg or ham.
I ordered the set with egg.

 

 

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Stir fried potatoes:
The potatoes were cut with a crinkle knife.
They were fried for a bit and then stir fried with onion, however I found it too sweet.
I was really looking forward to the potatoes but they did not taste as nice as I expected.

 

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Egg
The egg looked really nice, but it was cold and tasteless.

cold and tasteless

 

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Continental sausage:
It looked like a European sausage but the texture was exactly the same as a Frankfurter.

 

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Toast with butter:
I had no expectation for the toast but the butter that came with it made it delectable because it was salted butter.
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Although the breakfast is continental style, I felt that most of the items were localised especially their sausage and potatoes.

Maxim's breakfast menu - February 2012