Last Father’s day, we went out for lunch to have one of my favourite dishes—lobster! Yes, yes, I know it was Father’s day so hubby should have picked where he wanted to eat. Left to his own devices, though, hubby would just gladly go for pizza. We couldn’t have that! It was a day for celebration, so lobster it would be.
It was a meal fit for a celebration indeed, because the lobster, done four ways, was definitely not cheap. We opted for a 6-lb lobster and ordered some dim sum for starters. We realized later on (after packing our to-go boxes) that the four dishes from the live lobster would have sufficed for the five of us. The dim sum was good but was overshadowed by the awesome lobster dishes.
We arrived at O Mei at around 11:30am and just in time, too. We were getting hungry just thinking about the lobster! After telling the waiter that we were ordering lobster, he set off for the aquariums and came back with a live one and waited for our approval. Good thing they had a 6-lb one--a size that was apparently seldom in stock. We gave a thumbs-up and off the waiter went to have it cooked.
After finishing our dim sum, the first lobster dish arrived: Steamed lobster claws in garlic and scallion sauce with thin vermicelli noodles. It was very...well, garlicky, further whetting our appetite with its wonderful aroma. The girls liked the vermicelli noodles and I just loved the lobster!
The next dish was stir-fried tail (my favorite part!!) with soy sauce. The tail meat was tender and juicy but the sauce was a bit on the salty side. What can you expect from a dish stir-fried in soy sauce, right? Still, it was lovely!
The third dish was lobster legs deep fried in batter with chili and noodle crisps (my girls like crunchy food, so the crispy noodles were a hit). I was amazed that they found a way to prepare the legs. Crustacean legs typically frustrate people because their meat is hard to get at. The legs had a nice crunch, too, and were quite yummy with the chillies.
At this time, we remembered that in Chinese dining, rice dishes usually came last. And since we normally eat our rice with viand, we saved some lobster to eat with the rice. True enough, the final dish was fried rice with lobster tomalley, which is the green paste found inside the cavity of the lobster. All the parts of the lobster were made into such delightful dishes that there was nothing left over but the shell! We were stuffed but reserved some space for dessert-- a warm red bean soup. It was nice, though I would have preferred fruit to cleanse my palate. Hubby and my eldest, DD#1, enjoyed it, though. Excellent! After all, we aimed to please hubby on Father’s day!
(Hubby still got his pizza the week after…)
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