清汤鲍鱼 (Abalone Cooked In Clear Broth)
Dinner @ '聚丰德' (Jufengde) in Jinan, a renounced chain of restaurant serving Shandong cuisine.
My mate has ordered the braised sea cucumber and as a compliment, the restaurant serve up one free abalone.
I guess the old saying that free stuff tends not to be good stuff kinda holds true here. The abalone is pretty decent - the usual almost flavourless tender rubbery texture but the "clear broth" was clearly soup prepared with cubed chicken bouillons. I can recognise that taste anywhere.
Plenty of head shakings from myself considering this is an established restaurant in the city.
清汤鲍鱼 (Abalone Cooked In Clear Broth)
Dinner @ '聚丰德' (Jufengde) in Jinan, a renounced chain of restaurant serving Shandong cuisine.
My mate has ordered the braised sea cucumber and as a compliment, the restaurant serve up one free abalone.
I guess the old saying that free stuff tends not to be good stuff kinda holds true here. The abalone is pretty decent - the usual almost flavourless tender rubbery texture but the "clear broth" was clearly soup prepared with cubed chicken bouillons. I can recognise that taste anywhere.
Plenty of head shakings from myself considering this is an established restaurant in the city.