Jasmine Place

Shop 5, Lower Ground Floor , Jardine House, Central.

This was one of the better chained Chinese restaurant serving Cantonese cuisine. Nice ambience, reasonably good service (better if you gave the staff “lai-see” during the Chinese New Year period) and reliable standard of food. While examining the festive menu we decided on sweet and sour prawns, fried chicken with sesame seeds, hairy melon with dry prawns and vermicelli, steam egg tofu with seafood and, to finish off, mango pudding! The prawns were fresh and more sweet than sour, whilst not popular with the greyer generation on the table it is a personal favourite of mine. The fried chicken with sesame seed was fragrant and the sesame seeds added to the salt flavour. Nothing special, just the run of the mill fried chicken. The hairy melon with dry prawns and vermicelli is an old favourite on the dinner table. The melon adds a soft juicy texture to the chewy dry prawns and slippery vermicelli. The sauce which combines the flavours of the dry prawns, melon, stock soup wraps around the vermicelli make this a good dish just by itself or with rice (lots of it!). The mango pudding could have less gelatin, it was more like a jelly than pudding.

Sweet and Sour Prawns

White Sesame Fried Chicken

Vermicelli with dry prawns and melon

Steam egg tofu with seafood

Mango Pudding

BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
Rating:
Will I go back? Probably, only if there was no other choice

Date: February 2013
Food: Slightly better than your typical chain restaurant food.
Service: Efficient.
Ambience: Comfortable.
Pricing Category: Treat, HK$300+ per head