利苑食舫 - Sunway Restaurant

Jacky and I drove to Flushing on Saturday for his medical treatment...after running around supermarkets trying to look for snacks and bubble tea supplies, it was finally time for dinner! After deliberating on whether to have Korean BBQ Buffet, shabu shabu, or HK-style food, we decided on Sunway Restaurant 利苑食舫 on Prince St. in Flushing.  

Pictures below aren't of the best quality since I took them with my Blackberry...oh wells


The drinks we ordered. Coconut shake and red bean ice.  Coconut shake's flavor tasted kind of fake...every time I hear coconut, I always imagine it to taste like the freshly squeezed coconut juices from HongKong.  mmm...fresh, milky coconut juice!  It's been a while since I went back to HK, but I can still remember what that tastes like!  It's juice made from the meat (white part) of the coconut, so the end-product is white as well, not like the clear young coconut juice.  Anyways...the red bean ice @ Sunway was awesome!  I wish it was a bigger portion though, I had to ration it throughout the meal.  The red bean was mushy enough to be lightly chewed, and the evaporated milk wasn't overpowering.  Yum!

Our appetizer...mango salad wrapped in shrimp. 香芒沙律虾卷  There wasn't much shrimp taste, but the mango salad in the center was definitely something different!  It was nice and warm, outside was crispy, and the mayo dip added to the overall flavor.

My curry chicken fried rice 咖喱鸡粒炒饭.  For some reason I like ordering Curry flavor dishes in restaurants...this one was good!  Not much to really talk about...it had 2 green peas in it (which I forgot to tell them I didn't want, or "走青" as they call it)...it was good nonetheless.  I had to pack half of it to go to save room for dessert!

Mango tapioca 芒果西米露 so good!  Fresh pieces of mango (象牙芒 with yellow skin, not apple mango with the red skin) that's sweet with small clear tapioca pearls.  This would be the perfect drink for summer!  I can definitely gulp this down without a spoon.  I love how the tapioca are all evenly dispersed in the liquid, not like the ones I used to make where they all sink to the bottom...although the one I made was served hot at first, and then when refrigerated it becomes all thick.  Need to find more recipes and experiment on making tapioca.

Overall, I would go back to Sunway...they even have dimsum!  It's steamed-to-order/即叫即蒸 too!  I love the drink menu they have...it's not alcoholic, but there's so many different choices!