The pigeon is a legend, and the name of the store is popular, but the production is remarkable. The boss is from Jiangmen, leading a group of Guangdong chefs to open two branches in four years, which shows his strength.
The restaurant is more down-to-earth, focusing on fresh and fragrant folk flavors, and the number of dishes is not as much as that of Guangdong Manager Hotel, but the cooking methods involved are more diverse, with nearly 20 signature dishes, each with its own characteristics and different preparation methods, which shows that the kitchen skills are comprehensive.
Among them, the sauna chicken, water snake soup, and grass carp mentioned in "Taste of Shunde" are all specialties of the restaurant. The name Sauna Chicken is very vivid, that is, the steam is sprayed at the bottom of the special steam cooker, and the chicken flakes on the upper steaming rack are "steamed for 2-3 minutes", and the chicken can be slightly rolled up until the chicken turns white. Sauna chicken is a popular way to eat in Guangdong in recent years, focusing on the taste, the texture of the chicken is fresh and tender, and the taste mainly comes from the dipping sauce. The snake meat dishes are snake soup and snake chicken pot common in Guangdong Snake Village, and the richness and cooking characteristics are not as good as those of Guangdong Manager Restaurant.
As the name suggests, the pigeon is the restaurant's crowning piece. The roast pigeon is excellent seasoning, salty and fragrant with a faint sweetness, and the aftertaste is long, but the crispness of the pigeon skin and the richness of the gravy are not as good as the Tang Palace Seafood Restaurant, so it is recommended to eat it while it is hot, and it will affect the taste when it is cool.
Cantonese cured claypot rice, pork ribs with tangerine peel, seafood porridge in a casserole, Zhusheng noodles, panlong eel, medicinal abalone chicken, stewed duck with lingzhi and other representative dishes are worth tasting. However, there is a phenomenon of poor food handling in the restaurant.
The restaurant also sells local specialty snacks, such as Jiangmen Xinhui small green mandarins, Maoming lychees, bottled soybean milk that is essential for Guangdong fast food restaurants, and so on. Even the free hot tea before the meal is snow chrysanthemum from Xinjiang, which tastes warm and sweet.
All in all, the pigeon is legend is a very unique little shop that is worth visiting.