Restaurant review: Tso Choi, Fortress Hill – traditional Cantonese food at a reasonable price
If offal, innards and other extremities cooked Cantonese style are your thing, you’ll be well catered for at Tso Choi
If you want old-fashioned Cantonese food at a reasonable price, there are worse places to visit than Tso Choi. Deep-fried pig intestines? It’s on the menu. Braised pork belly with preserved vegetables? Check. There are all kinds of other innards and extremities: pork offal, pig trotters, brains ... And if you like pig lard with rice and soy sauce – a rib-sticking dish presumably invented before cholesterol was discovered – that’s also an option.
Our meal started with deep-fried fish cakes (HK$78), which were light, with the slightly resilient texture that they should have. The fish patties were served with a scant amount of salted clam sauce – we wanted more of that.
On the other hand, there was plenty of clam sauce in a dish of stir-fried beef (HK$84). The meat was tender, and had good flavour from the clam sauce and wok hay.
Even better was a dish that looked similar, but tasted very different: stir-fried pork offal (HK$82). We counted three types of offal: liver, stomach and small intestine, each of which needed a different cooking time, but they were all perfectly done.