Spicy Chicken is just average only, as the chicken is chilled and not a fresh one. Sauce is good and tasty.
Tofu
with spicy salt $28 is contained in a small dish. Every piece of Tofu
gives you a spicy and salty feeling in your taste bud.
Pan-fried Lotus Root Cake is an outstanding item. The cake is chewy and of course is good for eating with beer.
Fried Black Fungus with Sugar Snap Pea
Preserved Vegetable and Pork in Pot is an item to be neglected. It is not good in taste and cooking skill.
Xin Cuisine
新斗記
G/F & 1/F, 18 Cheung Lok Street, Jordan, Kowloon, Hong Kong. (3 minutes walk from MTR Jordan Exit B1 or B2)
香港佐敦長樂街18號地下及1樓
Tel: 23886020
Opening Hours: 1730 – 0330 Daily
Style: Hong Kong Chinese Style
Average spending: $150
Date: September 2007
Remarks:
We did try in Sun Dau Kee Seafood Restaurant (新兜記海鮮酒家) in Woo Sung
Street before. Xin Cuisine is operated by the former staff of Sun Dau
Kee.
We have not yet tried in Xin Cuisine after its opening in
Cheung Lok Street. Decoration of Xin Cuisine is quite modern; the
decoration should have not much difference from the former Chinese
restaurant in the same address. But we cannot say the dining environment
is comfortable. Diners are mainly OL and salarymen. We notice that most
of them would order the signature dishes, like "Fried Big Shrimp in Soy
Sauce" and "Roasted Baby Pig".
Since we have 2 persons only, we
plan not to try its signature dishes. Instead we only select several
small dishes in the meal. We order 4 dishes; the bill is $280 (average
spending $140).
Apart from the signature dishes that we have not
yet ordered, other dishes in the menu have average quality only. This is
a quite common phenomenon in quite a lot of restaurants in Hong Kong.
Without those signature dishes, Xin Cuisine becomes a restaurant without
selling point. We are sorry to have such comment. This is not to
dissuade you to try in Xin Cuisine. If you do pay visit, to order those
signature dishes is a must.
Service: 3.5/5
Price: 3/5
Food: 3.5/5
Environment: 3/5
Variety: 3.5/5
Hygiene: 3.5/5
Overall: 3.5/5
