美麗華茶餐廳 - Mei Li Wah Bakery

Last Sunday after I got my hair done, we went into a different kind of restaurant for lunch. Originally wanted to go Great NY Noodletown, but this place's menu looked intriguing. A lot of people were standing by the counter ordering takeout, mostly steamed and baked buns. First thing we noticed were the Fried Egg Pastry on the counter, apparently they are called 蛋散 in Cantonese.


I overheard someone ordering the "combination bun" so of course after scanning through the menu, I came across the name 三星大包 "Big Bun w Chicken, Pork, and Salted Egg" which could potentially be the combo bun. The bun was big indeed! In addition to the chicken and pork, there's also Chinese Sausage within the stuffing! The 蛋散 "Crispy Egg Shatters" was drizzled with clear sugar syrup, it actually tasted like fried noodles, but sweet. It was good enough that we ordered another one to take home!


燒賣 Shumai - A little part of me hoped their shumai would taste like the ones from Hong Kong that are served on a stick...unfortunately they weren't. They taste more like the ones from the usual dimsum restaurants. My search continues...in any case, these shumai were a bit dry.


涼瓜牛肉腸 Beef with Bitter Melon Rice Noodle Roll...never had bitter melon and beef like this before. The bitter melon was strong enough for you to tell that it's bitter melon, but not so strong that it tastes bad. They also have 芫茜蔥腸 Cilantro Rice Noodle Roll, 牛腩腸 Beef Stew Rice Noodle Roll , 皮蛋生菜腸 Preserved Egg w Lettuce Rice Noodle Roll that we didn't get to try this time...gives me a reason to go back!


星洲炒米 Singapore Style Rice Noodles - We didn't order this dish, but since they put it down on our table, we decided to take it anyways...it was good! Lightly seasoned, not too salty!


牛肉釀炸兩 Stuffed Beef Paste Fried Fritters - This is similar to the 炸兩 served at some simsum places, except this has a small amount of beef stuffed within. It was an interesting combination, but I don't think there was enough meat in the dish.


XO醬炒腸粉 Fried Rice Noodle Roll w XO Sauce - Even though the name has XO Sauce in it, it actually tasted more like the rice noodle rolls were stir-fried in 甜醬 sweet sauce. The rice noodles actually is served in a better shape than I had imagined, I was expecting it to look like 炒河粉..good thing it wasn't!

Also ordered 蝦餃/shrimp dumpling, 白果瑤柱粥/Congee w Dried Scallop & Ginkgo, 珍珠奶茶/Bubble Tea...not pictured. The shrimp dumpling is also like the ones served at the dimsum places. Congee was smooth and silky, but the ginkgo (actually never knew 白果 = ginkgo in English!) was bitter. Bubble Tea was great as well! Almost as good as the ones from TenRen. This place definitely served a lot of familiar (and some not so familiar) small dishes....there's a whole bunch of other dishes I want to go back to try!