Saturday, March 24, 2012

Beijing + Szechuan + Shanghai Delights

Before I did not know there were so many different types of Chinese cuisines and I happened to come across the Cantonese/Hong Kong style most, which I did not like.

I kept coming across soy milk, shanghai dumplings, noodles, dishes flavoured with cumin.

Then whenever I found those restaurants on Openrice they were classified under Jingchuanhu.
To be honest I do not know much on the Jingchuanhu (京川滬) cuisine but now I have learnt that it is a combination of three cuisines.

Jingchuanhu 京川滬 = Jing 京 + Chuan川 + Hu滬
Jing 京 represents food from Beijing, Chuan 川 represents food from Szechuan and Hu滬 represents Shanghainese food.

The food here was amazing that I came here twice.
On my first visit I did not order the set which I regretted, so on my second visit I ordered the set.
The staff here were very friendly.
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醬骨架 - Ribs in sauce
The meat was so soft and it came off the bone easily.
They even had disposable gloves too.
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三絲涼麵 - Cold noodles:
This was served in a bowl which was different from the previous reviews which was served in a shallow dish.
The sauce was at the bottom of the bowl so you need to mix it before you start eating it.
The sauce was runnier than the usual sauce you come accross, but there was generous pieces of ham, french beans, peanuts, cucumber and picked vegetables.
I do not usually eat peanuts, but the ones here were delicous and the sauce was slightly tangy. The sliced mushrooms which I do not eat tasted nice as well, so I ate everything in the bowl.
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Wuhan Re gan mian - Hot Dry noodles
These are breakfast noodles served in Wuhan. They were slightly similar to the cold noodles but they contained sichuan peppercorn and lots of cumin.
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Chili and bean sauce: When I saw it, it had something unique about it, the colour was dark burgandy and the texture of it was quite thick for a sauce.
I was fascinated to find beans in the sauce, but these beans are different to other beans in chili bean sauce.
They were much bigger in size and flatter.
I think they may have been broadbeans and it was a shame I didnt take more pictures of the beans.
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Shanghai dumplings:
These were piping hot and contained so much meat juice inside that you have to be careful when eating it.
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Pan fried dumplings and Meat buns:
I felt that these two were quite similar. The pan fried dumplings had a softer exterior and the meat buns had a crispy exterior both containing pork inside.
Although I am not fond of them, the chili sauce made them so delectable.
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Soy milk:
The soy milk was soothing and not too sweet
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I really liked this cosy joint, and they even had paper bowls and disposable gloves for your convience.
On my second visit they got my order wrong and when I told them, they were very nice and replaced it for me.
I really admire the owners of this shop because they were previously from a different industry and yet their food is fantastic.
While I was there, there were some customers who seemed to be their old colleagues and the world is so small that they happen to all live in the same area!!!
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Shop: 京川滬風味小食坊 
Address: G/F, 379 Portland Street
Service: Brilliant
Yummy factor: I'll be back
MSG levels: Light
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The warmth of Abalone treasures at Hess 61

Found out about this new shop on Openrice because the name of the restaurant was interesting, I thought the English name was quite random and not related to the Chinese name.

After having abalone noodles at Maur's Kitchen I decided to try this place.

The menu offered was extremely interesting, although it was Chinese food they also served Iberico ham.

I found the double boiled Hokkaido milk with abalone interesting, because Hokkaido milk is usually for desserts and this time it is a savoury soup!
The Iberico ham linguine was also interesting, but in the end I ordered the Steamed Abalone with Rice Wrapped with lotus leaf and Fish noodles with abalone sauce.
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Steamed Abalone with Rice Wrapped with lotus leaf $88
I was really looking forward to this but it was disappointing because it was just plain egg fried rice with a piece of abalone in it.
The abalone sauce was separate.
The set came with black fungus in vinegar, orange juice and a dessert.


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Fish noodles with abalone sauce $45
Although this was cheaper I really liked it, the noodles were made with fish were extremely soft and did not contain any grounded bones.
For the noodles there was a choice of instant noodles, udon or fish noodles.



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The entrance of the restaurant was quite interesting, on the left there is a fishing net and some abalone shells in the basket where you can write messages and hang it on the fishing net.


Overall the food was ok, but I wished I ordered the Hokkaido milk with abalone if I knew it was fried rice inside the wrapped rice.
The restaurant was surprisingly packed even though it had only opened by two days but then it was lunch time so expect a noisy environment.


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