In my post yesterday on my uncle and aunt’s Golden Jubilee celebration – their 50th wedding anniversary, I mentioned that I would be featuring the dishes we had that night at the banquet in another post.
Well, dinner started with the symbolic mee sua – the traditional Foochow longevity noodles…but the fried version with the golden eggs…
,,,which, though quite nice, was, unfortunately, rather cold. This was followed by the chicken with fish maw soup…
…which was really very nice indeed…
I don’t know if this is the trend – to have fried mee sua and the soup served separately but when I was making the reservation for my birthday dinner, the people at that restaurant asked me whether I wanted it like that but I didn’t – I would prefer to have the noodles in chicken soup, the way we have always had it on birthdays and other special occasions since young.
The more-than-Four Seasons came next…
No complaints, of course, as I’ve always enjoyed this dish, or most of the time at least.
Then we had the steamed fish…
…which was very well-steamed but alas, the fish was not really sweet – probably the fish had been frozen for too long but with light soy sauce, it was fine.
The duck was nice but again…
…it was not piping hot and the glutinous rice in it did not seem to have much taste.
I only had a piece of sea cucumber from this dish…
– the sea cucumber and beef tendon broccoli as I was quite full by then.
Still, that did not stop me from having a few of the prawns…
…served with their own-baked bread to be eaten with the very nice gravy. I don’t really know but I understand this is a Vietnamese-style dish.
Finally, there were fruits for dessert.
All in all, it was a nice dinner except that some the dishes were already cold when served…probably because there were simply too many tables and they were not capable of handling such a large crowd. I would think that they should do something about it or for that kind of money, people would much sooner go elsewhere…
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 