Maxim's Palace

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9-10 The very best | 7-8 Excellent | 5-6 Very good | 3-4 Fair | 1-2 Poor

Setting:

A traditional Hong Kong dining hall, Maxim’s is a classic Chinese mass-catering restaurant with strip lighting, tables big enough to cater for a big family of three generations and cheerful decoration.

Food:

Befitting of the decor, the menu features a wide range of cheap, traditional Cantonese dishes, which may not be particularly imaginative but are great for a tasty and reasonably priced quick pit-stop. The double-boiled soup of shark’s fin bone with coconut is a deliciously fragrant way to start the meal and the highly recommended braised duck with preserved cabbage has succulent, tasty meat with a sinfully delicious crispy skin. Unfortunately, the sauteed dishes are less impressive, the bamboo shoots with mushrooms are a little bland and unexciting and the sauteed shrimps with shredded chilli taste rather synthetic but despite their disturbingly vibrant colour, they lack any kick. The desserts are the highlight of the menu particularly, the dumplings with sweetened black sesame filling.

Wine:

There is only one choice of house wine (red and white) but there are many other non-alcoholic beverages such as fruit juices and Chinese tea.

Service:

Staff are friendly enough to make you feel at home but you will not get professional high standards of serving that you’d find in higher-class establishments.

Price:

A full-course meal with soup, three dishes and desserts was a very reasonable $479, without wine.

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