{"id":10687,"date":"2017-05-06T21:19:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T05:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/?p=10687"},"modified":"2017-05-19T10:39:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T18:39:15","slug":"kirin-restaurant-richmond-set-lunch-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/kirin-restaurant-richmond-set-lunch-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirin Restaurant (Richmond) &#8211; Set Lunch for Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was meeting up with Sofina for lunch in Richmond Central, and I picked <strong>Kirin Richmond<\/strong> for dim sum since I had not been here for a while. \u00a0Looking at their dim sum menu, I realised they&#8217;d had the same menu forever and found it a little boring. Then we set our eyes to the Set Lunch Menu for 2 ($52.80), which included the following dishes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kirin Assorted Appetisers<\/li>\n<li>Snake and Fish Maw Soup<\/li>\n<li>Stewed E-Fu Noodle in Abalone Sauce<\/li>\n<li>Scallop and Prawn Saut\u00e9ed with Snap Peas and Assorted Mushrooms<\/li>\n<li>Pea Tips Braised with Dried Scallop and Enoki Mushroom<\/li>\n<li>House Special Dessert<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is a 6-course meal and lot of food! But I think it had me at the Snake Soup! Although I had snake many times when I was a kid in Guangzhou, I only had snake soup once in Canada at Imperial Court Beijing Cuisine long time ago, which was a funny experience because the soup might\u00a0have miraculously healed my friend Graham&#8217;s arthritis. \u00a0To me, snake meat tastes like chicken but with a little bit of a seafood-y flavour.<\/p>\n<p>And you probably notice that there is seafood in every single dish as well, which is the chef&#8217;s known speciality at Kirin.<\/p>\n<p>We started with the <strong>Assorted Appetizers<\/strong>, a cold trio of smoked salmon, crunchy jelly fish salad and braised beef shank. The salmon was only slightly smoked and we could taste the freshness and the quality of the\u00a0sockeye salmon. The jelly fish was crunchy, which I loved, and also the touch of sesame. The beef shank was braised, chilled\u00a0for hours and thinly sliced. It was the staple cold cut on Cantonese dinner table like the salami or prosciutto for the Italians.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10693\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10693\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10693\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kirin Assorted Appetizers\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-1.jpg 2627w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kirin Assorted Appetizers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And we got a small bowl of the <strong>Snake Meat and Fish Maw Soup<\/strong> each. Man, it was good, It was the typical Cantonese style soup called <strong>geng<\/strong>, based on a flavorful savoury\u00a0broth and thickened with starch. The snake meat tasted just like what I had in China &#8211; it was almost like shredded chicken meat but had a very subtle\u00a0umami sweetness like seafood. \u00a0And the fish maw was soft and delicate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10688\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10688\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-2-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10688\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-2-2.jpg\" alt=\"Snake Meat and Fish Maw Soup\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-2-2.jpg 2705w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-2-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-2-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-2-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snake and Fish Maw Soup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Scallop and Prawn Saut\u00e9ed with Snap Peas and Assorted Mushrooms\u00a0<\/strong>featured really large pieces of fresh <a style=\"text-decoration:none; font-weight:normal; color:#000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tramadolshoppingguide.com\/ \"> buy tramadol from mexico <\/a> scallops. The combination of different textures on the plate was impeccable. The whole dish was simple, light and elegant, a great representation of a typical Cantonese dish.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10691\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10691\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-5-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10691\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-5-2.jpg\" alt=\"Scallop and Prawn Saut\u00e9ed with Snap Peas and Assorted Mushrooms\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-5-2.jpg 2847w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-5-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-5-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-5-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scallop and Prawn Saut\u00e9ed with Snap Peas and Assorted Mushrooms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <strong>Pea Tips Braised with Dried Scallop and Enoki Mushroom<\/strong>\u00a0was a favourite one which I tried to make a few times at home, although I only use dried scallop in my version. The key to the dish is to make the perfect sauce with the shredded dried scallop and mushrooms and have it all over the vegetable, which is in this case, the pea tips. The sauce is more like a gravy called <strong>heen<\/strong>, similar to the thickened broth in the snake soup but slightly thicker. This time the consistency of the sauce was perfect.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10692\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10692\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-6-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10692\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-6-2.jpg\" alt=\"Pea Tips Braised with Dried Scallop and Enoki Mushroom\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-6-2.jpg 2780w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-6-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-6-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-6-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pea Tips Braised with Dried Scallop and Enoki Mushroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The abalone\u00a0flavour in the <strong>Stewed E-Fu Noodle in Abalone Sauce\u00a0<\/strong>was very subtle and whole dish could have used a little bit more seasoning. But they nailed the texture of the noodles, which was nicely enhanced by the thin slices of shiitake mushroom in the noodles.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10690\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10690\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-4-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10690\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-4-2.jpg\" alt=\"Stewed E-Fu Noodle in Abalone Sauce\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-4-2.jpg 2928w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-4-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-4-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-4-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stewed E-Fu Noodle in Abalone Sauce<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By the time when we were feeling full, \u00a0the soup was the only item that we had finished completely. We still had a lot of leftover from other dishes. Thank goodness the dessert was small and we were offered a couple small pieces of the <strong>Taro and Coconut Pudding<\/strong>, which were, like the popular Mango pudding at dim sum, \u00a0more like agar jello than pudding.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10689\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10689\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-3-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10689\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-3-2.jpg\" alt=\"Taro and Coconut Pudding\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-3-2.jpg 2839w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-3-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-3-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-3-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taro and Coconut Pudding<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For 2 people, the Kirin lunch set ($52.80) might be a little pricier than doing Dim Sum, but the overall quality and the portion make it worth every single penny. The snake soup was quite a\u00a0bonus for me and it brought back the childhood memories, but if you are scared of this, you could just ask for a regular seafood soup. If you want to treat your date with an authentic Cantonese seafood meal for lunch, this lunch set makes an excellent choice. I grew up eating food like this as a Cantonese child and it definitely has the stamp of my approval!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Website and menu:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirinrestaurants.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.kirinrestaurants.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>More reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View Menu, Reviews, Photos &amp; Information about Kirin Seafood Restaurant, Central Richmond and other Restaurants in Metro Vancouver\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zomato.com\/vancouver\/kirin-seafood-restaurant-central-richmond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 200px; height: 146px; padding: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zomato.com\/logo\/16617762\/biglink\" alt=\"Kirin Seafood Restaurant Menu, Reviews, Photos, Location and Info - Zomato\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d2608.6152092318275!2d-123.1398034843146!3d49.169911579319304!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x54867534a9e116c1%3A0x73b53554bbc907d9!2sKirin+Restaurant!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sca!4v1494141133812\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was meeting up with Sofina for lunch in Richmond Central, and I picked Kirin Richmond for dim sum since I had not been here for a while. \u00a0Looking at their dim sum menu, I realised they&#8217;d had the same menu forever and found it a little boring. 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