Reviews

• 

  Memorable meal

  Happyeater | Sep 18 2011

  Been looking forward to dinner for a long time. Pre-ordered chicken wings stuffed with bird's nest. Like a French restaurant, we were given amuse bouche after we ordered our tea. It was turnip cake. A bit strange but tasted very nice. The chicken wings ($120 per piece!) looked tasty but was not as tasty as it looks. We also ordered the stir-fried crab meat with vermicelli. This dish consists of crab meat (fresh and not fishy), vermicelli, bean sprout and scrambled egg. Now it is not an easy dish but it was dry and tasty here. Very recommended.

  • How much did you spend?
    500
  • Overall Rating
    Good
  • Food 9
  • Service 8
  • Ambiance 8
  • Price 4

• 

  精彩粵菜

  smallhead | Sep 4 2011

  美味精彩的食物，多謝 KC 的安排。
  
  檯上真材實料的XO 醬，乾貝和蝦子份量充足。
  
  是晚豐富菜式，餐前小吃是煎的香脆金黃，吃到絲絲蘿蔔的蘿蔔糕。
  
  炒四季豆，四季豆甜嫩得很，入口無渣，炒的香口但不覺半點油膩。
  
  甘甜清潤的花旗蔘雞湯，撇油功夫做的好，湯底清澈不肥。
  
  當店名物燕窩釀雞翅膀，每一只都釀滿了燕窩漲卜卜。嚐試用餐刀切一下，燕窩即爆破湧出！燕窩用雞湯燴至入味才釀入雞翅膀，散點 $120 一只物有所值。
  
  涼瓜炒肚尖，新鮮的豬肚邊位，質感爽而不韌。涼瓜只切近表皮的部份，沒瓜囊，翠嫩味甘。KC 說第一局有年青食友吃了嫌苦，第二局取消了這一道，最後的這一局又再補回。我也覺得涼瓜的回甘不大對年青人口味（因本人以前也不愛吃苦瓜），不過近年我也慢慢愛上了這種甘苦，即表示本人年紀...
  
  炆的很腍很入味的蘿蔔牛筋腩，這一道做的很好，但以個人口味而言，我更愛其他兩局的清湯牛腩。據 KC 說這店的清湯牛腩比「鏞記」的更有水準，$220 一煲足四位享用，是他其中一個推介。
  
  酒香撲鼻的飛天花雕雞，雞肉熟不帶血但肉質非常嫩滑有雞味，我很愛吃，那雞汁滿有濃郁的雞味和酒香，更是精華​所在，可當雞湯般喝 ^^。散點一隻 $380 也是合理價錢。
  
  乳鴿每人一隻，現在很多食肆供應的乳鴿是頂鴿，較大隻和肉厚（像「楓林」的乳鴿體積有如一只小春雞），這些比頂鴿嬌小骨頭細軟肉質幼嫩。略嫌上半身的翅膀部份炸的乾了少許，下半身腿部肉嫩多汁。
  
  My favorite dish of the night 蒸龍躉頭腩，皮滑入口即溶膠質豐富，吃的咀巴也黏黏的。大家把骨頭吮的乾乾淨淨，只想留住每一口的美味。
  
  煎焗龍躉柳，肉質結實有彈性，鮮味十足。我很慶幸來了這一局，這兩道龍躉比之前兩局吃的煎焗魚咀和八子全鴨更得我心。
  
  也是富哥送的菜心，條條脆嫩清甜，一點也不會覺得味寡。
  
  來到尾聲但仍不可錯過壓軸戲澱粉質之蟹肉炒米粉，，米粉炒的乾身又飽吸蟹肉鮮味，芽菜也炒的爽口不出水變軟兼沒草腥味。唯一不滿對我來說洋蔥下的多了一點。
  
  富哥炒飯，炒飯粒粒分明沒多餘油份，其實水準不俗，但相比之下炒米粉更吸引，所以只淺嚐數口。米粉和炒飯的蔥花都切的很幼細，小處也絕不馬虎！
  
  終於來到甜點，有兩款甜湯，一是聽食友說是沒有蛋黃的蓮子蛋茶，另一款是蛋白杏仁茶，幼滑，但杏香不濃，印象中最好吃的杏仁茶是灣仔的「富家粵菜」。
  
  最後有清甜多汁的水果，驚喜是富哥自家農場種植的紫色火龍果。
  
  這一頓吃的稱心滿意，回味無窮，$530 沒有白花 ^^。

  • How much did you spend?
    530
  • Overall Rating
    Good

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
  • Food 9
  • Service 8
  • Ambiance 7
  • Price 3

• 

  True celebrity cuisine

  Sweetsweet | Jul 14 2011

  We saw a few movie actors there! The Chinese food was very very nice, but quite expensive. I really like the XO sauce (with Chinese carrot cake) and the steamed minced pork with chestnut. The service was so friendly and attentive. No wonder it is so popular despite the prices!

  • How much did you spend?
    450
  • Overall Rating
    Good
  • Food 8
  • Service 8
  • Ambiance 8
  • Price 3

• 

  good lunch

  Tim | Aug 21 2010

  decent dim sum - the prawn dumplings are so big! And the turnip cake is good, good turnip taste.
  
  Decor is old-style Chinese.
  
  Service so-so.

  • How much did you spend?
    230
  • Overall Rating
    Good
  • Food 8
  • Service 5
  • Ambiance 7
  • Price 3

• 

  A failing grade for dim sum

  Peech | Feb 19 2010

  A last-minute change of plan was made, and a few of us ended up at Celebrity Cuisine (名人坊) - which earned itself a macaron from the chubby baby.
  
  Dim sum was the natural choice for lunch, and pricing was pretty reasonable. I'm not sure whether it's because we arrived pretty late for lunch, but the quality of the items were below my expectations. I've had a few dinners here and my overall impressions have been reasonably good.
  
  Pan-fried radish cake (煎蘿蔔糕) - there were thin strands of radish but the overall texture was pretty mushy, and prone to falling apart when picked up by the chopsticks. Interestingly I tasted bits of liver sausage (潤腸) inside, which is not normally used. Complemented perfectly by the excellent in-house XO sauce.
  
  Pan-fried baby pigeon (炸乳鴿) - excellent. There was a milky/creamy flavor to it all, and it was very well seasoned...and just a tad too salty for me. Crispy skin with very juicy meat - what little of it there was anyway...
  
  Crab-in-a-box (大良鮮蟹盒) - since I didn't copy the menu items, I'm using my old crappy translation from a year ago. The batter was excellent - full of the oil used to deep-fry it - and the crab roe inside was decent. Best with some Worcestershire sauce.
  
  Deep-fried dumplings (咸水角) - pretty disappointing. The dough outside was too mushy, and not enough filling inside.
  
  Steamed prawn dumplings (蝦餃) - a disaster. Waaaaay over-steamed, to the point the three dumplings became "conjoined" and any attempt to separate them resulted in holes in the skins. The dumplings were huge and filled with prawns, but quanity didn't make up for the shortfall in quality. This reminds me of the ones at Dim Sum (譽滿坊), as those are almost always over-steamed also. In the movie God of Cookery (食神), Stephen Chow would probably have shouted "零分(Zero)!"
  
  Fish marrow with scallions and garlic in claypot (砂鍋薑蔥魚云) - I'm not a big fan of fishhead, so this was never gonna thrill me. The soft gelatin "marrow" behind the gills was kinda nice I guess... but pretty "fishy" even with the scallion and garlic.
  
  Deep-fried seafood bowl (金錢海鮮盒) - very ho-hum. Looks like a stuffed shiitake mushroom, but in reality it's a piece of toast at the bottom, topped with mashed potato mixed with chives, tiny shrimps and some crunchy water chestnut bits, with a few very thin wafers of shiitake mushroom on the surface for decoration. Dunno what to make of this, except that it's kinda like an alternative version of the shrimp toast (蝦多士)...
  
  Honestly, this was a pretty disappointing lunch. Not exactly star-worthy in my view. The chef came out and asked what we thought of the food, but given that he's a friend of a friend, I didn't have the heart to give him my honest opinion...
  
  original blogpost with pics: http://chi-he-wan-le.blogspot.com/2010/02/whos-celebrity.html

  • How much did you spend?
    $210
  • Overall Rating
    Bad
  • Food 4
  • Service 5
  • Ambiance 5
  • Price 3

• 

  Great value for Dim Sum Set Lunch

  Johnny-Be-Good | Jan 11 2010

  Great cozy place for quality dim sum in Central/Sheung Wan for a reasonable price. This is by far my preferred dim sum restaurant around Central/Sheung Wan area.

  • How much did you spend?
    100
  • Food 8
  • Service 7
  • Ambiance 7
  • Price 3