May 4, 2010

• Song of the Day
  
  Speeding along the freeway with this song blasting in the background. (Randomly stumbled upon this rebellious melody while browsing at the Nikon website. It’s one of those background song for the promotion of one of their DSLR cameras.)

  Tasty Duck – In search of good and cheap Peking duck? Tasty Duck may satisfy your short term duck yearning, but the gratification may only last barely longer than the dinner itself. Here’s a load down. A couple of foodie friends found out about this Peking duck restaurant, and so they ordered the dish a day in advance. The restaurant is located inside one of those nondescript mini-malls in the San Gabriel Valley , where there are tons of good Chinese and Vietnamese eateries hidden all over the neighborhood. As this dinner photo blog is concluded, there’ll be another set of Peking duck dinner photos taken at a restaurant in Hong Kong. Just for comparison sake.

  “Golden Duck”, I guess this refers to the crispy golden colour of the roast duck / sauce and scallions for the duck
  

  Side dishes include Smoked Fish / Green Beans and tofu…..
  

  Winter Melon soup…..
  

  Roast Duck peeled in pieces….
  

  The entire dinner costs US$20 per person, with seven of us sharing. We also ordered a few other dishes, but sadly the photos were not quite presentable. There was still a small portion of duck left over though, enough for one more person. The atmosphere of the restaurant was nice and with no loud talking diners. Overall, the food was inexpensive but not that good either.

  Peking Garden – During our December trip in Hong Kong, we celebrated mom’s birthday at this restaurant. Peking Garden has four locations all over Hong Kong, including Tsim Tsa Tsui, Admiralty, Charter Road in Central, and Tai Koo City. We went to the one in Central District.
  

  Pan fried prawns, so meaty…..
  

  Shanghai style siao lone bao juicy meat dumplings…..
  

  ‘Long Life’ noodles, since it’s a birthday meal, extra long noodles symbolizes long life…..
  

  The duck, quite good size and meaty…..
  

  The chef sliced up the meaty part and served with thin Chinese tortilla wraps…..
  

  A piece of Peking duck, with scallion and ‘hoi-sin’ sauce, waiting to be wrapped up…..
  

  My mom’s favourite, Blueberry cheescake from Cova …..
  

  There were six other dishes but the guests were too eager to start the meal, their chopsticks were faster than my camera, so as to speak. Regrettably, I was left with the remaining few pieces of food in the dish. I’m not sure how much was the dinner since my dad grabbed the bill before anyone could lay their hands on it. But I could tell it was not a cheap dinner.

  Thanks to Chris’ (Christao) savory account of his recent culinary trip with Tawn to Hong Kong, which aroused the blogging bug in me again. In the coming weeks, I’ll post a few more eating adventures in Hong Kong. Stay tuned!

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