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Wednesday 24 September 2008

Wedding Lunch at Si Chuan Dou Hua

This is my first entry in a long while as have been caught very occupied with work as well as playing some online games :)


Anyway this review is about the wedding lunch I attended recently. It was held at the Park Royal hotel ball room and the food was supplied by Si Chuan Dou Hua Restaurant.


The wedding was a very elaborate affair and especially like the entrance portion.


Firstly have to thank the people sitting at the same day as me for the inconvenience of giving me time to take fotos of almost all the dishes.


The first dish to arrive is of course the cold dish. They termed it as Dou Hua Combination Platter. It comprises of Thai Style Silver Fish, Shark Fin fried with Egg, Salad Prawn, Jelly Fish and Deep Fried Soft Shell Crab.



I liked the soft shell crab personally.





The next dish is the 8 treasure seafood soup. It consists of dried scallop/abalone, sea cucumber, crab roe, fresh prawns, crab meat, spinach juice and a superior soup base as per stated in the menu.



The soup was actually quite nice with the predominant flavour of the Spinach and the prawn and crad flavour. I must be unlucky as not able to find the abalone :(


Steamed Red Garoupa.



The people were quite skillful to remove the bones of the fish. Nothing outstanding for the taste as to me it is just a steamed fish.



The next dish is the Braised Sea cucumber and duck stuffed with chestnut. This dish was quite good. The meat of the duck was tender and it went well with the sea cucumber. Only think is I seem not able to find the chestnut.

The below is the spicy seafood combination. The quality of the picture for the below is a bit blur.

Anway it is a dish where there is fish slices, cuttlefish and prawns cooked in a spicy sause. Do not let the color of the dish think that it is a very spicy dish. Actually it is not very spicy and it is a bit on the sweet side with a tinge of spicyness. It went well with the Fried Man Tou though. ( Something like the Chilli crab gravy)
The below is the steam prawns in chinese wine. It was ok.
As I was away from the table when they serve the baked pine seed rice in lotus leave, hence only able to capture what was left after they serve each person one bowl. For the tastewise, it was nothing really outstanding.


The last dish is the double boiled Hasma with red dates and lotus seeds.