Remember the iCook restaurant I talked about the other day?
Well….next to iCook, there's a Congee shop, serving mainly different types of Cantonese style congee along with some Chinese dishes. The restaurant also have a good selection of beverages, including yummy bubble tea and ice cream drinks.
In the summer, we ate at this Congee shop once. At the time, I was very disappointed with the lack of sweet congee choices and did not like this place. Today, we decided to give it another try.
The cantonese speaking population of China, from my observation, prefers to add all sorts of meat to their congee. Unlike the Northern and Mandarin speaking Chinese who prefer plain rice congee or sweetened red bean congee, Cantonese tends to prefer salty congee.
Thankfully, their menu includes pictures, we picked the following three dishes:
Lobster Congee
Fried Squid (spicy)
Steamed Fish
Out of these three dishes, the lobster congee was the best! For $13.99, you get a whole lobster. Unlike adding just pieces of lobster for flavoring, which was what we had originally expected, they put in an entire lobster, together with shell and everything! It was very delicious and definitely a good deal.
The other two dishes, the steamed fish and the squid, were somewhat disappointing. I didn't realize they would deep dry the squid ( I'm used to simple stir fries), also the strong spices were too much for our taste buds. The fish…unfortunately, also didn't quite meet our expectation. It looks very yummy, but the flavoring wasn't too great, the fish itself also tasted weird. Maybe it's just us not used to this type of cooking style, but the squid and fish sure wouldn't be on our selection list next time.
Overall, they have some really good dishes and some disappointing ones. Make sure you know what you're getting before you order.
BaoZi's rating: 3 out of 5
Keung's Restaurant
8380 Kennedy, Markham