Sea And Delicious Food 地中海景觀餐廳

A few minutes drive from our house in Hsinchu City. Nanliao is a Hsinchu fishing harbor although lacking good beaches, there's a handful of restaurants for you to pick and dine. All of restaurants here appeared similar to me, in term of price and ambience, just pick anyone pleasing you and the food with similar values and various cooking methods. Most of the restaurants beside the dock on the second floor at fish market were very agressive in attracting customers to dine-in at their place, I dont like that kind of approach. So we choose Sea And Delicious Food a restaurant which facing the waterfront and we were seated beside the window much more relaxing.

 

The place had quite a good crowd when we arrived. they had a comprehensive menu. As soon as we walked in past the many tanks filled with  fresh seafood. We are trying to choose fresh local catch  to find out  various fish and seafood.

After placing our order and first dishes, which arrived is the king prawns NT$250 each prawn. I love the way it cooked which was steamed. Underneath the prawns was a surprise of glass noodles absorbs all the yummy flavours drizzled down by the top layer of fresh water prawn.

Soon after, the grilled jack fish arrived in all its glory it was beautifully cooked, with a nicely seasoned crunch.

There’s just something about eating with your fingers that seems so enjoyable. These deep fried seafood roll it is served with ketchup sauce. The crust was very crisp and surprisingly light. This could easily be a great starter.

The stir fry oyster noodles which does not look very appetizing to me. However it was delicious with mild saltish flavour, my kids liked it! And almost nothing left on the plate.

A plate of asplenium lightly stir fried to taste the natural flavour of the fresh green plant and one of my favorite Hakka dish.

Surprisingly they also offer a stir fry pig intestines with ginger and vinegar and always my favorite dish and one of the best I ever tasted than the previous Hakka restaurants I visited in the past. It was delicious and I keep taking more and more of to supplement my rice. Overall: Comparing the price to the seafood restaurants in Yilan a little bit expensive. But I think it was pretty reasonable for such plentiful seafood meal. It seems like all the dishes that we have ordered above is excellent in taste and you will need to finish it. We definitely one of our list for seafood cravings in Hsinchu.

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Sea And Delicious Food 地中海景觀餐廳
No. 241 Nanliao Street Hsinchu City
新竹市北區南寮街241號
Tel No: 03-5368688
Website:
http://www.035368688.com.tw/

Rick's Classic American Hamburger

I have not been in any american burger restaurant for almost more than year. But when I am craving something for burger. We went to Mos Burger to get a little bit healthier and freshly made burger. I hate to even have to write this, I didn't want to give an awful reviews especially to such a fast food but this restaurant was worth a visit and the service was good too.

Located onto busy and bustling road know as Guangfu Road. Rick's Classic American Hamburger was a pleasant surprise. The decor was Americana in style very simple, bright, clean and has a retro atmosphere. It offers burgers, hot dogs, steak, fries, shakes name a few and they also have a few side dishes.

Our waitress quickly came up speak english very well so the language barrier will not be a problem for foreign customers then took our orders. We got a vegetables salad  which is an item off their special meal menu including drinks and fries with ice cream for classic american grill.

My chilli cheese burger with fries was arrived. It was just so meaty and rich with strong, intense flavors coming from the fresh chopped onion and caramelized chili sauce. The patties were obviously homemade and it was a bit oily. That's ok since once in while having a bit greasy meal on my palate, I still enjoyed it and absolutely delish.

Up next is the double cheese burger for my princess and comes with a melted cheese, pickles, onions, tomatoes, lettuce. 

Bbq short ribs a chargrilled marinated short ribs is tender, juicy and jam packed with flavour and served with coleslaw, a side of fries.

The marinated rib eye steak is definitely more tender and tasty as well. We were served a chocolate and vanilla ice to end of the meal. Before we leave the restaurant, the lady owner stopping for a chat and had a moment. Feeling curious if we are a visitors in Taiwan. We quickly response, we live just a few blocks away from here. The owner is an American married to a Taiwanese women so both locals and foreigners are welcome here. For those who wants a very authentic American food this is a great place for burger cravings. Their burgers were delicious is one of the best in Hsinchu so far. Yes, it's a bit greasy and your heart may stop once or while, but you walk out of there with a smile on your face. I'm definitely be back again to try the rocket chili dog.

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Rick's Classic American Burger
No.736 Sec 2 Guangfu Road, Hsinchu
新竹市光復路二段736號
Tel No: 035714519
Website:
http://izzyizer.wix.com/ricks-cah
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Longji Hong Kong Restaurant

This place channels a simple wooden panelling and ceiling simply bolted in place to transform a modern interior setting. Even with its casual dining atmosphere still seems like a fast food to me than a Hong Kong cafe and restaurant. The menu features a variety of Cantonese food and the speciality is roasted meat. We have heard much about as one of the most renowned Cantonese restaurants in Hong Kong, London,  etc and etc . Since dim sum is one my favorite Cantonese dishes. I am constantly on the lookout for the best dim sum but I'm very disappointed no any dim sum on their menu.

After placing our order the food came so quickly. My husband wanted some soup and he had a herbal chicken soup loaded with red dried goji berries and mushrooms.

We also ordered 3 delectable roasted meat was a chicken, duck, pork and served with two dipping sauces. Though they are served a little fat and oily but one of my favorite dish on that day.

We got 2 filler item  was mixed BBQ stir fry noodles and stir fry rice with shrimps; The stir fry noodles loaded with bbq meat with spam and some vegetables. The noodles itself was excellent because each noodles were still slightly crispy and nice caramelization of  lean bbq pork. We appreciated it was actually a pretty large portion .

The stir fry rice with shrimps it was also quite nice, we enjoyed that as well.

The stewed eggplant with minced pork and shrimps in claypot was crappy. I always preferred the Taiwanese Hakka style eggplant with basil and fresh minced pork.

Then we were served a fried turnip cake with x.o sauce for free and there was not a good fry either, so they were missing those deliciously crisp and textural contrast which made it very bland.

I intend to eat healthy so I ordered hot fungus sweet soup for the finale. I'm disappointed when came out. Basically it was horrible and smell like acacia tree. I only eat a 2 spoonfuls, I just don’t like it. This one is supposedly good for cleansing the inner body. You can probably get a better tasting in other Chinese restaurants, this one is probably the worst one.The service is fast, the food was great but it doesn't astound menu and some was horrible. We definitely not to intend to go back again. The good thing is....This eatery shares a parking lot for free with other eateries within the corner.

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Longji 龍記香港茶餐廳

 No 137. Lane 28, 1st floor Yanji Street, Taipei

台北市大安區延吉街137巷28號1樓

Tel No: 02-27111500
Website:
http://www.longjihk.com.tw/