Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong Mother of Christ Church, 11 Po Ping Road 保平路11號天主教香港教區基督之母堂 Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong Mother of Christ Church, 11 Po Ping Road 保平路11號天主教香港教區基督之母堂 (New Territories, North District, Sheung Shui)
23 Jockey Club Road, Sheung Shui, New Territories 新界上水馬會路23號 23 Jockey Club Road, Sheung Shui, New Territories 新界上水馬會路23號 (New Territories, North District, Sheung Shui)
My mum arranged to meet couple friends so one friend took us here. You need go up using the lift and then register for a table, they give you the order forms and a ticket number. Took 10 mins to get a table for 5. The place is decked out for weddings, the chairs have the covers which got caught under my shoes at times! Food was good, I quite liked the red plum jelly. It’s a busy place and they can seat one person on a table with other single eaters, which is common in dim sum places I been to in the past.
Yuen P L.
Place rating: 4 London, United Kingdom
Newly opened and claiming to be a ‘wedding banquet specialist’ you can justifiably expect for the prices to be higher and the setting to be more elaborate than the average Chinese restaurant serving dim sum in Sheung Shui. True to form, the restaurant is more expensive, but the presentation from the tablecloth, seats, television screens, wall and ceiling decorations to the dishes upon which the food is served(apart from a couple of cracks on the teapots) are all pristine. The highlights of the food I tried were the pineapple/char siu bun combination which was done extremely well with the crusty pineapple topping and the soft bun encasing the roast pork filling; the fried mantou buns were perfectly crispy on the outside with just a delicately fried layer, a suitably soft interior and the light salad cream for a dip; and the salted fish with chicken fried rice was a pleasant surprise as I find most fried rice unoriginal but this offering was golden, tasty but not overdone and loaded with sufficient amounts of ingredients(spring onion, salted fish and chicken). This is the only restaurant that I’ve seen so far in Sheung Shui that can offer a stage for a potential wedding banquet and can also do it with great style. However, after all it’s achievements in creating grand surroundings, the restaurant fails to provide a befitting reception, with lack of a welcome and lack of an entrance; it would seem that as soon as you get into the lift and choose either of the 2 floors on which the restaurant is situated, you are simply flung into the mix, come what may. I even saw the staff themselves squabble over what their jobs entail as some say that they are only responsible for delivering dishes and not collecting them and henceforth complain amongst each other about certain staff not doing their job properly. I would be more critical of this behaviour except that I have come to expect this at traditional Chinese establishments as I have seen this type of scenario all too often in Hong Kong. Therefore with a pinch of salt, staff discrepancies and lack of welcome aside, I can at least reveal that this restaurant has on my visit served the best all-round quality of dim sum that I’ve ever had in Sheung Shui and in the most elaborate setting which all makes for a captivating dining experience.