紅磡火車站國際都會商場743-744號舖
Hung Hom, Metropolis Mall, Store #743
KCR: Hung Hom Station
If you've got a craving for some Shanghainese - looking to get your xiao-long bao fix, you want a different persuasion of scallion pancakes, or just plain looking for good food - you can't go wrong with Another One. Contrary to this restaurant's name, its dishes are packed with flavor that stand out from most cuisine you'll find in Hong Kong. Just seeing these dishes again and blogging about it is making both my mouth and my stomach water.
白肉粉皮 White-meat Chicken Noodles Salad
If you like chilled salad type dishes, you'll love this one. It's got a kind of peanut sauce over it, not chunky and clunky like peanut butter, but smooth, flowing, and savory. Thrown over thin strips of cucumber, strips of white-meat chicken for a complimentary tougher texture, and chewy flat noodles, they all combine for the most interesting celebration of 4 different textures in your mouth, and a delicious cool dish.
一品霸王雞 First Imperial Chicken
This one is marinated with more flavor than your typical Hong Kong chicken. It comes bathed in a sauce that seems to include vinegar and wine, but with a subtly sweet flavor. Topped with several red seeds (don't worry, they're soft and chewy) this dish is not only plenty flavorful, but easy on the eyes as well.
蔥爆羊肉 Onion Bursting Lamb Meat
These strips of lamb meat were thin, but bunched together for a satisfyingly juicy mouthful, it was probably the heartiest dish of the meal. Onions and scallions thrown in with pepper also made it the most flavorful as well - a fiesta for your taste-buds!And here of course are the classic Shanghainese xiao-long bao. They come out piping hot, with a hearty texture of a dumpling skin, wrapping an explosion of amazing saucy soup and pork from within. Dipped in a vinegar sauce with strips of ginger, xiao-long bao really is an impressive ensemble of nicely complimentary ingredients for a culinary masterpiece.
招牌小龍爆 Specialty Xiao-long Bao
蔥油餅 Scallion Pancakes
Scallion pancakes in Hong Kong and the US tend to be flatter and tighter, so it's nice to try out this Shanghainese version. The outer-most layers were very thin and flaky, but biting into it more reveals a chewy and flavorful core, with a bundle of scallions making for an oily core with that signature scallion zing. I appreciated the subtlety of the scallion flavor, although my three dining companions didn't like that it wasn't as flavorful.
生煎鍋貼 Shanghainese Pot-sticker
We ended the meal with these pot-sticker dumplings that had some sort of sweet filling inside. I can't say what it was, none of us knew! It was just good, not great, but you have to appreciate the aesthetic contrast between the black filling and white bun, I think.
Overall it's a great restaurant, with great Shanghainese food that would not hesitate to recommend!
