Tips:
- The Singapore-style chili crab, and sweet and sour pork with pineapple are excellent.
- This eatery is on Fantuan and Uber Eats
- The portions are generous.
I dropped by Hee Kee Seafood Restaurant for lunch with a couple of friends late last week. It's a seafood restaurant that is known for its clay pot rice and crab.
We had a noon reservation under my friend's name. I simply drove over to Skycity Shopping Centre and had no problem finding this eatery. There was plenty of parking. I pulled into a spot and walked in.
A woman with her two kids were ahead of me and were looking for Cotti Coffee. It turns out that this business is inside the restaurant. I find it brilliant because a couple of us got beverages before we left. We didn't have to figure out where to get a drink elsewhere in the plaza.
My friends had already arrived. We were seated at a larger table because we ordered a seafood set that required more space.
This seafood set serves three to four people, which consists of these components:
- Main seafood
- Second dish
- Pork dish
- Seasonal vegetable
- Daily soup
- A pitcher of traditional Chinese sour plum drink
For the first three items, we selected these items:
- Singapore-style chili crab (roughly 2 to 2.5 pounds)
- Sliced beef with premium soy sauce
- Sweet and sour pork with pineapple
We got a pitcher of sour plum drink and three glasses. This drink was refreshing. It was like having preserved plums, but in a drinkable format that was sweeter. I liked it.
We got our daily soup that had cubed melon and carrots in the best broth. I thoroughly enjoyed it as a soup lover.
The Singapore-style chili crab came out first. We were all impressed by the presentation and how yummy it looked.
The sauce was amazing. It had a spicy kick to it, but it wasn't flaming-hot spicy. The crab was juicy and so good. We were all quiet as we de-shelled and ate various crab chunks. Our server came over with a seafood shell cracker, which made eating our crab a ton easier!
The crab came with fried doughy rounds. They helped to sop up some of that delicious sauce.
The sliced beef with premium soy sauce came out next. The beef was sliced paper-thin. I liked the soy sauce with a few red chilis tossed in. I enjoyed how tender and flavourful the beef was. It melted in my mouth. I oddly thought about putting this beef in a roll. It would be excellent. It would be like having an Arby's roast beef sandwich, but with better quality beef with a Chinese flair to it.
Maybe I hadn't had anything sweet and sour in eons. The surprise for me was how delicious the sweet and sour pork with pineapple was. The pork morsels were deep-fried and coated with sweet and sour sauce. They were juicy and yummy. The sauce was tangy and slightly sweet. I loved the bell peppers and pineapple chunks in this meal.
I'd order this dish for me if I were to do takeout. I wouldn't share. It's that good.
The seasonal vegetable was choy sum in garlic. I liked that we got a vegetable to make it feel like we were eating healthier... haha! I liked it. I didn't see a whole lot of garlic, though. I would have enjoyed some chopped garlic (okay, a lot because I'm a garlic fan) in this dish.
We got steamed rice. This seafood set typically doesn't include rice. Considering how much sauce was in the Singapore-style chili crab, we needed another carb beside the fried dough rounds to sop up everything. Frankly, we eat all dishes with rice.
This seafood set is more for four people. We had a lot of food left over, so we ended up boxing everything up and taking home whatever we wanted.
The leftovers are incredible. I took what was left of the chili crab and added it to ramen. The spicy sauce and two crab pieces added so much flavour and depth to the ramen broth. I loved it.
I had the sweet and sour pork with choy sum over rice for dinner. It was comforting and satisfying.
I still have the sliced beef to enjoy with more choy sum. It's cool that I got a break from cooking a few meals!
I used the washroom before I left the restaurant. It was a single stall. It's for everyone. It was clean. No issues.
It was a wonderful experience having lunch here. We left full, but not in a food coma. It was a perfect dining experience.
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