Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Another Quintessential Teochew Cuisines

Tonight is the last leg of our Shantou Trip  and we are feasted with a very authentic Teochew foods in this restaurant.



Menu - Obvious ?





The dining  room is on the left hand side.




Tooth pick or chopstick ?


Exquisite display of dining implements.
We are served with two kinds of drinks - red date juice and red wine.


A microscopic look at the implements.



Cold dish - Goose gizzard ( not liver ), goose meat and jelly fish.


How do you measure the hospitality of the host ? One of the manifestations  is the serving size of the food. In this instance, every diner has  a whole steamed fish to savour. It is a dish that brings out the  intrinsic properties of Teochew cuisine, namely, freshness, steaming, lesser use of flavour, less oil and etc.



Fresh vegetable in soup.


A signature Teochew dish - fried oyster - very succulent. It differs from other foods in term of its sapid character.


A new dish that I have not tried before.


The soup comprises fresh olive, generous portion of sea snail meat and other secret ingredients. 


Fresh crab - steamed.


Deep fried dessert. ( The other twin is not shown. )


None of the diners is able to tell the content inside the papaya.


Fresh papaya is used as a receptacle for sweet  black glutinous rice. The host encourages us to consume the papaya too.


Watermelon, star fruit and honey dew. Of course, the finale is a small cup of "kungfu" tea. ( No photo taken, host may not like what I do, taking picture of every dishes. ) Overall, the qualities of  foods are more than hunky dory.





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