New chapter for Jin Cuisine, now serving Cantonese fare
The restaurant at the Holiday Inn Express in Tseung Kwan O has gone Cantonese, though there are still a few Shanghainese dishes on the menu.
(tel: 2623 2333) in the Holiday Inn Express Hong Kong Kowloon East has recently changed to serving Cantonese cuisine, although one can still find a few Shanghainese dishes on the compact menu.
Sweet and sour pork (HK$108) had a thin layer of batter that stayed crunchy until the end of the meal, and just enough fat to make it succulent. Sadly, the sauce was ketchup-based instead of the old-school hawthorn. Sauteed fresh prawns with salted egg yolk sauce (HK$198) arrived with less yolk sauce than usual, so one can devour them with slightly less guilt.
Pan-fried lotus root cake (HK$108) was strictly traditional, with a little minced pork sandwiched between two thin and crispy wafers of lotus root. These were tasty, but the batter was a bit too oily.
Stir-fried mushrooms with ginkgo nuts and asparagus (HK$88) combined lily bulb, red capsicum, ginkgo nuts and different types of mushrooms with skinny spears of asparagus. It was a bog-standard Chinese vegetable dish which glistened under the lights with a tad more cooking oil than was needed. For dessert, deep-fried Chinese fritters with syrup (HK$28) had a strange orange hue, and were too thin to deliver that deeply gratifying sensation of munching on fried dough.