Food review: Putien offers Fujianese cuisine with an addictive chilli sauce
Braised pig intestines (HK$68) were fantastic, with clean, rich flavours and a soft, fatty texture. Baked bamboo clams on a hot plate (HK$98) were fresh, juicy and briny.
Putien
7/F Lee Theatre Plaza, 99 Percival Street, Causeway Bay
Tel: 21118080
Open: 11am-3pm, 5.30-11pm
Fujian
about HK$240 without drinks or the service charge
we were seated in the back room, which was spacious.
braised pig intestines (HK$68) were fantastic, with clean, rich flavours and a soft, fatty texture. Baked bamboo clams on a hot plate (HK$98) were fresh, juicy and briny. Pig's trotters with salt and pepper (HK$38 each, minimum order of two) had tender meat, plenty of chewy, sticky cartilage and crisp skin. Large chunks of stir-fried yam (HK$78) flavoured with spring onions and sugar were addictive, and reminded us of sweet-savoury yam desserts served at Chiu Chow restaurants. Putien-style oyster omelette (HK$88) wasn't the eggy style we expected, but more like battered, fried moist and fresh oysters with a delicate crusty coating. Putien bean curd stew (HK$78) was rustic, with subtle toasted flavours from the bean curd getting (deliberately) slightly burned in the bottom of the casserole it was cooked in.