Wineshark HK Restaurant Review - Ho Yin Seafood Restaurant (Provident Centre)

This Chinese restaurant is located in Provident Centre, North Point, where I used to live many years ago. Now coming back to the neighborhood there were many changes and I found there are many more restaurants along the street than it used to be. Obviously there are keen competition in the area. This is part of the group in which there are a total of five restaurants in different parts of HK.

The general setting is one of the typical Chinese restaurant, nothing special in decoration. On the evening there are not that many customers, and we got a table on the window side looking to the street. We ordered three dishes as there are three of us for this dinner.

The first is a Fried Chicken, cooked by hanging it and pouring hot oil over it repeatedly. It was in fact quite good, with the skin crispy and the chicken seasoned well, quite juicy and tender. And this is part of a two course special discount set. It is a good start and gave me a good first impression.

The next is the other dish of the special set, the Steamed Young Geoduck with Vermicelli. The geoducks were steamed to the right degree and not rubbery in texture. They were quite sweet and tasty. The only issue I got was that the geoducks were not cleaned well and so there were still some sand inside.

The other dish we ordered was the seasonal Braised Mutton in Clay Pot, accompanied with some Chinese lettuce. The overall taste for the sauce was reasonably good, but the mutton was not braised sufficiently and still a bit tough on texture.

With three bowls of rice, the total bill was $493 which is good value certainly. There are also some free dessert provided. The red bean soup however was just too sweet or otherwise it would be quite good.

This is your neighborhood restaurant you would come for dinner, but not one that you would make special effort to come visit.