Left: Sweet and Sour Veggies
Top Right: salted peanuts
Variety
Cold Dish $50 comes with Jelly-fish, Ox Tongues, Celery and some
vegetarian foods. This platter enables us to try various Peking cold
dishes together, but it is not a very delicious item.
Deep
Fried Mutton by Peking Style $60 is a signature item of Spring Deer.
There are about 10 pieces. The special flavor of mutton is not strong.
It is good to eat with the special sauce and salt.
The meat is juicy.
Braised Bamboo Shoots & Black Mushrooms $60 is quite flavorful.
Bamboo shoots and black mushrooms are cooked in brown sauce. It is recommendable to try.
Fried Whole Fish in Sweet & Sour Sauce without Bone $280
should
be one of the most expensive items in the menu. It comes with really
the whole fish. Since we have not ordered dumplings, rice and noodle, we
can finish the whole big fish with ease.
Candied Banana $52
is a typical dessert in Peking food and in north China. It should be
quite a special item, particularly in the eyes of foreigners. To
separate the candied banana pieces, it is needed to put them into a bowl
of water with ice.
Spring Deer Peking Restaurant
鹿鳴春飯店
2/F, 42 Mody Road, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. (3 minutes walk from MTR Tsimshatsui Station Exit D3)
香港九龍尖沙咀麼地道42號二樓
Tel: 23664012
Opening Hours: 1130 – 1500 & 1800 – 2300 Daily
Style: Peking
Average spending: $150
Date: April 2007
We make reservation before noontime; it is lucky
that
we can still book a table. But the lady on the phone informs us to
arrive better before 1930. Otherwise, the table would be allotted to
other diners.
We have 3 persons only, and cannot order too many
dishes. When we look at the menu and found that for most of the dishes,
there are large, medium and small sizes. We can then order 4 dishes and 1
dessert. They are “Variety Cold Dish $50”, “Deep Fried Mutton by Peking
Style $60”, “Braised Bamboo Shoots & Black Mushrooms $60”, “Fried
Whole Fish in Sweet & Sour Sauce w/o Bone $280” and “Candied Banana
$52”. The bill is $591 (average per head $197). It is not a too
value-for-money dinner.
Some people comment that the foods are
not so delicious as expected. My interpretation is that because it is
Peking food, which has not yet been localized. It is of course not so
delicious for most of the Guangdong persons in Hong Kong. In dinnertime,
there are a lot of visitors from various countries everyday. It is
really a tourist attraction to boost tourism of Hong Kong. I have
brought my Japanese customers to dine in Spring Deer before, I would do
the same in the time to come.
Service: 3.5/5
Price: 3/5
Food: 4/5
Environment: 3.5/5
Variety: 3.5/5
Hygiene: 4/5
Overall: 3.5/5
