Located in the Pearl Lane of Guanqian Street, the Pearl Restaurant is a famous Subang restaurant in the old city of Suzhou, although it is far from being a time-honored brand, but its reputation is not under the Xiehe Restaurant, Xinjufeng Restaurant, etc., and is regarded by many local diners as a cost-effective choice to replace Songhe Tower and Deyue Tower.
Pearl Hotel is famous for Subang cuisine, but there are also many Sichuan and Hunan dishes in the restaurant's menu, which is basically the same as Subang cuisine. Among the cold appetizers, there are few characteristics of Subang, only a few are worth trying, the bad fragrant duck tongue is thick and fat, the taste is crisp and tender, the bad fragrance is light and not spicy, the thickness of the bad stomach is thin, and the dipping sauce is appropriate. The old-fashioned fried fish sauce is on the heavy side, with a creamier taste and a higher sugar content, and the rest of the cold dishes are mostly mediocre and lackluster.
Similar to cold dishes, the hot dishes at Pearl Restaurant are also occupied by Sichuan and Hunan cuisines. However, unlike cold dishes, most of the Subang hot dishes in the Pearl Restaurant are of a very high standard, and some of the dishes can be compared with the old Subang restaurants. Mussel meat goldenrod is highly praised, the perfect interpretation of Subang cuisine sweet mouth, salty throat, oil is not soft, mussel meat is rich, chewy, slightly fishy, although the goldenrod is not completely delicate, but the sauce is salty and fragrant. The soup is tender and moisturizing with shredded bamboo shoots, shredded ham, egg whites, whitebait, and small shrimps, and the lettuce is fresh and tender, the soup is thick and fresh, and the pepper warms the stomach. The overall taste is solid and tough, sweet and sour and crispy, and the sauce is firm but not sticky, but the sweet and sour sauce is very similar to the squirrel mandarin fish, and the sweetness is quite high, so it is not recommended to order both at the same time. The steamed white fish is of good standard, the heat is just right, salty, fresh and tender. Ringing oil eel paste, water wave waist slices, intestinal lung soup, etc. are also everyone's style, and on the whole, the hot dishes are more oily and salty, and the taste is strong and fresh.
Mixed noodles with scallion oil are one of the few staple foods in Pearl Restaurant, but the standard is not good, the soy sauce flavor is heavy, the aroma of scallion oil is insufficient, it is alienated and scattered from the noodles, and the taste is sweet and greasy. The wontons are handmade by the store, filled with vegetables and meat, and are light and delicious, but the umami of the soup base is not natural enough. For dessert, we recommend bean paste balls, the amount is not small, the bean paste is thin, the lotus root powder has a strong flavor, and the balls are loose and glutinous.
Pearl Hotel is located in Pearl Lane, a simple two-story building, surrounded by Soviet-style eaves tiles. The restaurant has two floors, the first floor has two halls, the inside and outside, and the second floor is mainly a private room, with a two-person cubicle, with good privacy. The restaurant service is worrisome, the attitude is casual, and there is basically no professional and thoughtful at all. The hygiene situation of the Pearl Hotel is also quite bad, a layer of oil smoke smells heavy, the plastic tableware still has dirty water stains, the waiter steps on the tablecloth to wipe the water marks on the ground, the restaurant does not prohibit smoking, and the smell of smoke is always choking. The Pearl Hotel is not low in popularity, meals often need to wait at the door, and parking around Guanqian Street is very inconvenient, so it is recommended to travel by public transportation.
