Last night I went to Pearl Villa with my folks in Chinatown and HF. Pearl Villa has undergone some recent renovations and it shows! It was packed last night and many big groups came in too! Even a big table of Japanese business men found their way to this place.
Located on the second floor above the street level nearby Shabu Zen and China Pearl, my folks wanted to eat here last night. We started out with the seafood combo soup (small) which we enjoyed. Then we had the Peking Duck with the fixings-hoisin sauce, scallion slivers, cucumber slices and the white buns. Then came the Peking Duck on a bed of shrimp chips. We all made a bun for ourselves slathering the bun with hoisin sauce, adding some cucumber and scallions and selecting some duck skin/meat pieces! Yummy! Definitely not low fat food but it was tasty!
Next came the bitter melon stir fried with fish fried in batter. I have gotten used to eating bitter melon that I like it now. As my mom constantly reminds me, it is good for your "digestion" and if you take the "bitter melon tea" clears your complexion too. (She added this to HF.) Then we had the sugar snap peas which were crispy stir fried with seafood with sweet walnuts. The seafood hotpot was simple. The extra duck from the Peking duck was used to duck bean sprouts and chives stir fry. We had the requisite two lobsters ginger scallion stir fry which fine. At the end of the meal, we got tapioca with sweet potato. Other places might give you red bean soup or fresh fruit slices (usually orange). It was a nice respite.
The conversation over the table was too bad that the food needs a lot of oil. My mom has to monitor her diet per her doctor's orders and was rinsing her food in hot water. The amount of grease and oil she has seen (from all the meals we have consumed together) has been scary. Of course home cooking, there is less oil and salt which is how my mom cooks. But at a restaurant, you cannot go light on the oil.
The food and seafood was fresh! Other than the Peking Duck, everything was seafood Cantonese style.
