Chongqing people are heavy on oil, salt, and spicy, and their evaluation of Cantonese cuisine is nothing more than "long and tasteless". High-end Cantonese restaurants in Chongqing are struggling to make progress, either switching to Sichuan cuisine, improving the flavor of Cantonese cuisine to maintain business, or giving up the pursuit of fresh ingredients such as seafood with low order rates, and only making common Cantonese stir-fries. If you want to find a Cantonese restaurant with a decent comprehensive experience in the mountain city of Chongqing, it is estimated that only Meili Kitchen can meet the requirements. Founded in 2013, this Cantonese restaurant has been highly sought after by diners since its opening, vaguely resembling the style of a Cantonese restaurant in Yucheng, and opened a second branch at the end of 2016, which is rare in Chongqing, where high-end Cantonese restaurants are scarce.
Beautiful Kitchen has a complete supply chain to ensure the diversity of dishes and meet the needs of diners as much as possible. Every day, a batch of fresh seafood is delivered to the restaurant from the coastal city "sea, land and air", and it is also fed in the restaurant's own seafood pool for at least three days to spit out the sediment in the body before it can be processed and cooked. The official claims that a special dry and wet aging vessel is used to preserve its own selected imported beef, and the beef flavor of the two aging methods is unique. Chef Beauty Chef travels to Hong Kong three or four times a year to select the most suitable ingredients for the season, which is much better than many Cantonese restaurants in Chongqing with single ingredients.
If diners want to taste the culinary East Star Group in Chongqing, then Beautiful Kitchen is one of the few options. There are three methods of steaming, ancient steaming, and double winter stewing, and with the dish of steaming the eastern star grouper, the beautiful kitchen will firmly sit on the first place in the sales of wild eastern star grouper in Chongqing. The method of steaming may seem simple, but it is the best test of the freshness of the seafood ingredients. The chef does not do too much processing of the East Star Grouper, and there are no seasonings such as chili, pepper, and spices to destroy the umami of the East Star Grouper itself, and the cooking temperature and duration are just right, and the fish is tender but not fragile. The melt-in-your-mouth rich, sweet taste is appealing enough, and when dipped in the restaurant's homemade sauce, it has a salty and flavorful taste. The average weight of the East Star Group is 2 catties, while the price of Beautiful Kitchen is about 1,000 yuan per catty, which is slightly higher. If the budget is insufficient, you can choose tiger grouper instead, the practice is consistent, the taste and texture gap is not large, the price is only one-third of the East Star Grouper, and the cost performance is higher. Other imported seafood such as Canadian geoduck fried in XO sauce, Thai prawns with salt and pepper, and Hokkaido thin-shelled snails soaked in lobster soup are all fresh and worth trying.
In addition to all kinds of seafood dishes, Mei Mei Kitchen's stewed soup, roast meat, and Cantonese dim sum all have good performance. The restaurant uses mineral water to stew soup, and the stew soup is not less than 5 hours a day, and it is estimated on the day to ensure freshness. Like the famous Fujian cuisine Buddha jumping over the wall, in which abalone, sea cucumber and other ingredients blend with each other, the soup base is rich and has enough "umami" flavor, and the silk is around the tongue. The roasted meat is grilled in an open oven and is available in limited quantities every day. Hong Kong-style roast goose is a popular signature dish in the store, the heat is properly controlled, the duck skin is straight and not wrinkled, ruddy and shiny, crispy and sweet, and the duck meat is firm and mellow. There is not much fat left in the duck skin, and the combination of duck meat is fat but not greasy, which adds to the fragrance. All kinds of Cantonese dim sum, made to order, with excellent freshness and outstanding cost performance, are also the dishes that can attract repeat customers.
Compared with Changjiahui store, the beautiful kitchen palm spring store has won a lot in terms of menu performance, dish richness, service and environment. Located next to the Youth Reservoir, the Beautiful Kitchen Palm Springs store has a sparkling and beautiful lake view, and the interior is simple and atmospheric, with the charm of a Cantonese restaurant. The two stores are both halls on the first floor, and the design of large boxes on the second floor, the minimum per capita consumption of the box starts at 800, and if diners bring their own drinks, the corkage fee is 30 yuan/person/bottle.