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2013-07-05
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I was organising a birthday dinner for my brother & sister.I saw that Hung Kang Teochew Restaurant (韓江潮州酒楼) had a whole suckling pig birthday set for S$438+ so decided to do it there. Hung Kang is 1 of the old names like Yuan Xing (Guan Hin) & Tai Seng, but we had not been there for a while. Dinner started with longevity buns (寿桃). Nice touch for the mood so I didn’t mind it though everyone seemed to avoid carbo these days, but can always “ta pao” (take out)! The appetizer & later even more so t
I saw that Hung Kang Teochew Restaurant (韓江潮州酒楼) had a whole suckling pig birthday set for S$438+ so decided to do it there. Hung Kang is 1 of the old names like Yuan Xing (Guan Hin) & Tai Seng, but we had not been there for a while. Dinner started with longevity buns (寿桃). Nice touch for the mood so I didn’t mind it though everyone seemed to avoid carbo these days, but can always “ta pao” (take out)! 
The appetizer & later even more so the longevity noodles & orh neh dessert are rather poor dishes in my opinion (strangely both the start and end dishes). The jelly fish was ok, spring roll was crispy so quite good, the pressed pig head meat was not my favourite but ok with the “kek you” citrous dip & I took couple pieces. But the chicken didn’t quite belong here. Should just have a salad prawns etc like most others do.
The sharks fin with crabmeat & fish maw was tasty, not the watery type so maybe in the “quite good” category. 
The main star dish – the suckling pig – was good! I guess that was the most important. Many restaurants now do this very well, so it was not out of the ordinary but it was a great dish which everyone enjoyed. 
The teochew steamed pomfret (斗鲳) was very good too. Many restaurants do not serve pomfret in the cheaper sets, and pomfret has a stronger taste (ie more fishy) than other more delicate textured fish, so its not easy to do it well. but this pomfret was excellent! Real tecohew stuff! 
The cereal prawns looked great & tasted good too.
This teochew slow stewed chinese cabbage was wonderful, really nice – another excellent dish!
I didn’t quite like this longevity noodles. Somehow it was far too sweet with too much sugar. Places like Chui Huay Lim do their teochew fried seafood beehoon so well & flavourful. This one was carbohydrates that we didn’t really need.Looking at the photos, the orh nee (yam puree dessert) actually looked quite ok. Unfortunately taste not there! It was not “pang”/flavourful as orh nee should be (maybe too healthy no lard?) so another carbohydrate dish we didn’t need!
Well, some misses but we did get to have our fix for suckling pig, and a had few other great dishes too.
For full review and more photos, visit http://chefquak.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/whole-suckling-pig-birthday-dinner-set-hung-kang-teochew-restaurant-on-14jun2013/.
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