A Revisit to Taste of Hong Kong

After our revisits to the Noble Chef and Golden City, the Missus wanted us to try out the roast duck at some other places. I'd been wanting to have the Salted Egg Yolk Chicken Wings from Taste of Hong Kong and it been almost a year since our last visit. So, we headed on over. We had noticed that the place does get a bit crowded for dinner, so we arrived just after the opening time of 430pm.

The Missus looked over the menu; we had three items that we wanted to order and the Missus got a fourth, kind of surprising item.

Of course we got the half Roast Duck.

This was a bit of a surprise as it was much better than what we'd had here before. The fat was nicely rendered, great duckiness, good anise tones, the meat was moist and tender. The one thing I didn't like was the skin which I found to be too hard and chewy. Still, in terms of fatty goodnes, this was the best we'd had so far! But the texture of the skin needs improvement.

Of course the Missus got Her Salted Fish and Chicken with Tofu.

The usual sauce/gravy was more like a thin soup. Loved the smooth and velvety tofu, but there was hardly any salted fish flavor in this; the dish was lacking in the funky-savory tones. It was on the blander side of the spectrum.

I'd been looking forward to having the Salted Egg Yolk Chicken Wings. During our first visit it was "love at first bite". On our second visit, there seemed to be some "QC" issues and the wings weren't as good. So, what would be the result on this visit?

Man, there was a good amount of savory-eggy yolk used. The entire bottom of the plate was yellow! The skin was crisp, the flesh moist and tender. This was an umami flavor bomb. Of course, I don't think this travels well and so we finished it all during this meal.

For the last dish; like what we had done at Golden City, the Missus wanted something different. I'm not sure why; but She ordered the ChengDu Style Roast Duck and Spam in Spicy Broth. It was a huge dish.

Man, that broth was spicy, though it was lacking in the numbing "ma" that we expected. There was supposed to be tripe in this dish as well; but we found nary 4 little strands of tripe. The spiciness of the broth totally wiped out any flavor the duck would have, though it seemed to highlight the saltiness of the Spam. I don't think we'll be ordering this again.

Though I'm sure we'll be back for those wings.

And perhaps even the roast duck....though I think we've got at least 3-4 more places to try.

Taste of Hong Kong
4428 Convoy St.
San Diego, CA 92111

Comments

[Kenneth]

That duck sures looks a lot tastier than the one we had on our visit about a year and a half ago. We'll see what your other duck reports say but maybe we'll have to reconsider our previous decision to avoid the place. Thanks for the update!

[Kirk]

My goodness, you're so fast there Kenneth! The duck was much better than what we'd had on previous visits, so it will be interesting to see if this was just a fluke? Those chicken wings will keep me returning though!

[kat]

the wings looked nice!

[Kirk]

We loved those wings Kat!

[Soo]

That's good you found better duck.

[Kirk]

And those wings Soo!

[Som Tommy]

Those wings look good

[Kirk]

That was our favorite dish ST!