Ye Shanghai

Even that you can find nearly all kinds of cuisine in Hong Kong, Chinese food is still the majority. Of course, there are many kinds of Chinese food characterized by their origins, with Guangzhou cuisine being the most popular since Hong Kong is in Guangzhou.

The second place would no doubt be Shanghai dishes, but good Shanghai restaurants are not common. Ye Shanghai is one of the excellent places with both great food and comfortable environment. I especially like their  booth seatings which are cozy and private.

We started our meal with some alcohol, but no this is not a drink. This is the Marinated Pigeon in Chinese Yellow Wine (花雕醉鴿).

The dish was followed by the Slices Pork in Garlic Soy Sauce (蒜泥白肉).

Usually I am not a fan of this dish because it is quite chilly and I can't take that. However, this one was done with sweet soy sauce (instead of the salty one) and all the chilly thing was only placed in the center. People who cannot stand chilly thing would still be able to enjoy the pork in this way.

The Seafood Soup came before we finished the two starters, and it looked so delicious!

That crab was obviously one Shanghai hairy crab (大閘蟹), and inside you could also find fish and shrimps. The soup tasted so good and you could tell what ingredients the soup contained. All the essences of the seafood flowed within the bowl, superb!

After that, the meat came, which was the WuXi Pork Chop (無錫排骨). The meat was very soft and the sauce was good, but it lacked a little surprise. I guess I was just expecting too much, perhaps.

The vegetable and the famous Shanghai Dumpling followed.

The covering of the dumplings could actually be done better. The thickness was right, but it looked like it was a little too wet. I guess the steamer was too powerful, or this dish was overcooked a little bit. Still, the whole thing was good and over the passing mark.

Then we had this beautiful dessert as the finale, and maybe you can guess what that is?

It was Black Sesame Creme Brulee with Yellow Chinese Wine Ice-cream! This is a perfect mix between Chinese and western cuisines. The creme brulee was excellent, crispy on the top and all smooth underneath. The ice-cream was such an interesting sweetie. It looked like normal ice-cream, but the taste was exactly the Chinese wine used in the first dish! It was not like Bailey's ice-cream, since it was really Chinese wine, and therefore the flavour was...so hard to describe! It really tasted like a kind of traditional Chinese dessert!

When we left, we saw this chocolate counter at the entrance. It was another funny fusion: tea chocolate. These chocolate bars and candies actually had tea flavours blended inside, and just that intrigued me. Let me try that next time and report how surprising that chocolate would be.