Unexpectedly Good Chinese in Brussels
- May 23, 2009
- Rated 3 of 5 by
tvordj from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
On night two in Brussels, we had returned from a long day in Bruges, tired and footsore. We went out for a late dinner and walked around Place St. Catherine but all the restaurants seemed to focus on seafood. We didn't realize at the time but this area specializes and was a fish market in the past. I don't mind but my partner isn't keen on seafood so we had trouble deciding where to eat. We also noticed that a lot of the restaurants were expensive or fancier than we were comfortable with. Being tired, we didn't really want to wander too far afield in an unfamiliar city/neighbourhood. We walked a little further up St. Catherine street where we'd seen a few Chinese restaurant signs when we were passing before, but most of them seemed closed aside from this one, the Hong Kong delight. That was pretty much what decided us.
The restaurant is fairly plain inside, but the menu has a lot of variety and the price wasn't too bad, pretty much average for most Chinese restaurants and of course you get a good size portion for your money. Each dish definitely enough for 2 or 3 to share. There are some exotic items on the menu, not to many people's tastes but there are plenty of more conventional and familiar Chinese dishes, too.
We had rice, a sweet and sour pork and a chicken dish and couldn't finish it all. It was well cooked, tasty though the chicken looked a bit pre-processed and pale. It was hot and filling and we both enjoyed it. Best of all it was a short stagger to the hotel and with tired feet, we went back satisfied.
From journal Briefly Belgium