With fine, restaurant quality, frozen Dim-Sum products now readily available in a number of retail stores around my neighborhood. It has been weeks, if not months since I last had a sit-down Dim Sum lunch at a restaurant.
Based on past experiences and current suggestions from foodie friends and bloggers, my wife and I decided to pick up my brother-in-law from his car maintenance service at the dealership and head over to nearby ‘ Skyview Fusion ‘ for a long, overdue dim-sum lunch.
However, the presence of some alluring wall posters at the entrance, promoting a number of really attractive looking, value-for-money special dishes threw our menu order decision a curveball. Instead of just focusing on Dim-Sum dishes, we ended up making a detour and augmenting them with some of the specials.
To our Dim Sum order of:
- Har Gow Shrimp Dumpling
- Freshly baked BBQ Pork Buns
- Pot-sticker style, pan fried diced Curry Beef Buns
- Thousand layer Duck Egg Yolk Sponge Cake
We splurged and ordered a plate of ‘ Shanghainese style, stirred fried whole Dungeness Crab with Chinese Rice Cake, Fava Beans and Preserved Chinese Mustard Greens ‘ plus a BBQ meal combo platter of BBQ Pork aka Char Siu and Cantonese Roasted Duck.
Our order turned out to be part hits and part misses!
Stand-out being the exemplary, well-executed, flavourful and crispy Roasted duck. For once, there’s a chef willing to put in the effort to prepare the marinade in the traditional, cumbersome, long-handed way. The result?….reminiscent of some of the excellent, authentic offerings found in local Hong Kong’s specialty Cantonese roasted meat shops! The well-charred, tender and nicely seasoned Char-Siu was top-notch too.
Sadly, the limp looking Crab dish was prepared totally void of ‘ wok-hay ‘. The starchy batter and gravy coating was crushingly overwhelming. However, the desired overall flavor profile was still there……if only the chef would put a bit more loving effort in properly executing the dish!!!
As for the small number of Dim Sum products we ordered? Again, the seasoning was spot-on, though the overall construction and form of the products were way overboard and way too overwhelming in size! The gigantic Har Gow, requiring at least 3 bites was the size of a grenade!! Same was the baked BBQ pork buns!..so filling!
Overall, an acceptable but non-stand out lunch from one of GTA’s supposed best!
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