Grouper with lettuce and pickled greens
Egg whites with scallops

Restaurant Review!

Shundin King l Jordon l Kowloon

I really need to stop eating at these holes in the wall. Seriously, people who read these reviews must believe that I have zero class. That’s what I was thinking as I got a whiff of raw sewage as I parked my car in the open lot in Jordon. I was even more certain of this when I walked past greasy, reeking garages and braved clouds of car exhaust to walk into a restaurant decorated with fishing nets on the ceiling.

Sure, the place got marks for having some seriously fresh seafood though it was predominately fresh water (is that still seafood?). The place also got marks for our waiter, Chinese Tim Roth, but something told me this just wasn’t going to me my night. This is one of those places where people come and order huge earthenware pots of bubbling fish and veggies and rounds of beer to ease its passing.

We started with steamed egg whites and cream served on top of broccoli and crispy noodles and covered in deep fried garlic. The egg whites and cream were set to nearly panne cotta softness and were well balanced by the deep fried garlic and noodles. The garlic, green onion and soy braised chicken was decent but unassuming. Our Delta Grouper with green onions was served on a delicious mix of lettuce and pickled mustard greens. You got dashes of fish with freshness of lettuce and sudden turns of sweet pickled greens. Very well done but I think this would have been better if there was enough of us to order this in an earthenware pot.

Looking around, it seemed like everyone had had better luck ordering than we had. I saw tables crammed with people seated around huge earthenware pots. The cooking is far from subtle as it was obviously all about big flavors and grease. Unfortunately, I got enough of that on the walk over from the car.