Wineshark HK Restaurant Review - Big Brother Biu's Seafood Restaurant

This restaurant was started by Big Brother Biu, who had made his name selling snake soup and owning a food stall in the Kwun Tong neighborhood. After the area was re-developed he moved to the current site and continued to offer food stall style dishes, but having more seafood choices.

On the night we ordered the Dark Gold Brick Tofu, which is a deep-fried tofu with chili salt, sprinkled with black sesame. The texture is great, with a crispy skin while a soft tofu interior. Also, the seasoning is right without too much saltiness and the black sesame actually provided a good fragrance.

As recommended by the staff, we also had the Geoduck in Celery Soup. There are four pieces of good-sized geoduck, cooked by soaking in a stock made from Chinese celery and pickles. Through this way the freshness and sweetness of the geoduck is nicely showcased in the dish without being dominated by other flavors of the sauce/soup. There are also some vermicelli in the soup which are tasty absorbing the flavors of the soup.

The other dish we got on the night was Sauted Prawns in Ketchup. Now being in the no-fishing period, I would not expect we would have fresh prawns so in no surprise the prawns were frozen. Quite disappointing for this dish, however, was that there was simply no flavor for the prawns, and even with the strong ketchup the prawns still did not taste interesting.

The last dish was a signature of the restaurant, the Baked Oysters in Port Sauce. The oysters were deep-fried first to give a firm texture, and then it was baked with onion, wrapped in tinfoil. Because folded in the tinfoil, the juice of the oysters were retained and when eating the oysters it was suggested to add some of the juice back to the oyster to add flavors. No wonder this is one of the best dishes of the restaurant.

The restaurant was rather neighborhood and not exactly very clean and comfortable to sit, but the service from the staff was all genuine and friendly. With two soft-drinks, two bowls of rice on top of the four dishes, the bill on the night was $646, which was very reasonable.

My overall rating is 60/100.