Tsui Woo Chinese Restaurant

I know; I've been emotionally neglecting my blog (and by extension all you fine folks), so apologies. I just finished moving, and am particularly enjoying my new place (a certain gentleman being partly responsible for this, hello).

AT any rate. This was quite a while ago, so we'll try to remember what exactly was what. Tsui Woo Chinese Restaurant. My aunt wanted some peking/beijing duck. Despite China recently, I was completely game.

Let's jump right to the food shall we? In a word, I liked it. Can I remember how it was exactly? Nope. But they gave a lot of sauce (and even more after we asked), I don't recall unappealing fat stuck to the duck skin, and the skin itself was crispy.

If I were to complain, I'd go for the wrapper, which was a little older/gummier. But I didn't say that. Because really, I still liked it quite a bit.

You know, one thing I really noticed when I was on the trip was that they didn't serve this part with the duck meal. I had grown up always having the two served together. This is the second part of the duck, the diced up meat with lettuce wrap.

Carrots and duck and celery, crispy rice noodles and who-knows-what-other-veggies, this mix is savory, and is oh so great with the fresh crisp lettuce.

This was a bok-choy veggie dish topped with large pieces of bean curd, and mushrooms. Sure, doesn't look or sound the most appealing, but the bean curd tasted really good. Crisp outer skin but smooth layered texture within.

Chicken cooked chinese style, you know;; this has never caught on with me. It's not that it's bad, it's just that I never like how the skin turns out-- and if you like this dish, what exactly is it about a slimy skin that you actually like?

Taro root and fish. It's too bad the taro they used was old, it wasn't sweet, had a harder texture, and  as a result took away from the nicely done fish.

And to add a carb element to our dinner, we went for mantou (fried and steamed) instead of rice! Which I say is an improvement. Because fried mantou is good. And we already know this. (Except when they're done too long in colder oil, and yea. These were a little oil logged.. stillgood!)

Finally, because this was a set meal, they ended us off with a tapioca pudding. The set meal we ordered doesn't usually come with a tapioca pudding, but they made an exception because apparently this belonged to another table and they didn't want this dessert (before they served it out.. I'm hoping). Unfortunately, because of this, I believe this dessert was sitting for a little bit and the crust topping wasn't very fresh. Too bad on the texture, because I liked how it tasted.

Overall standard meal, and a nice night. Even the service deviated from the typical stereotypical chinese service, and wasn't bad at all. Not bad at all.