Food review: As You Like Restaurant in Wan Chai

As You Like Restaurant
Fasteem Mansion, 307-311 Jaffe Road, Wan Chai
Tel: 2891 2787
Open: 6pm-3am
Cuisine: Sichuan hotpot
Price: about HK$200 without drinks or service charge

crowded. Diners sit on backless stools at tables that are close together. But the ventilation is good, so we didn't end up smelling too much of our dinner.

they offer a few hotpot broths but the speciality is spicy chicken; after diners eat the meat, the servers add broth to dilute the sauce, which is used to poach raw ingredients. We tried a split pot that held spicy chicken (HK$98) on one side, and chicken broth with preserved vegetables and pig stomach (HK$118) on the other. We liked both: the spicy chicken was flavoured with a good variety of fresh and dried herbs and spices, while the chicken broth soothed our mouths.

Of the ingredients we tried, we liked the tender US beef (HK$118), the cubes of pork blood (HK$36), fatty goose intestines (HK$48), fish skin dumplings (HK$48) and pork and chive dumplings (HK$42).

The sponge-like frozen bean curd (HK$24) and delicate fried bean curd skin (HK$22) absorbed the flavours of the broth, while the fried fish skin (HK$36) needed just a quick dip, so it remained crunchy.