Mr. Choi's Garden

It was a very heavy dinner that we had last Friday night; I was invited to attend a birthday celebration at Mr. Choi's Garden along Annapolis St. in the Greenhills area, and the Chinese lauriat was truly a feast!  We started off with several kinds of appetizers, including crunchy pork and cocktail shrimps, we had very delicious Peking duck (cooked two ways, skin pao and fried crunchy) and the biggest live lobster I have seen...it was absolutely humongous!  Take note that I am not joking--the lobster was around two feet long, and the antenna was another two feet and a half feet!  We also had scallops cooked with chicken & mushrooms, and a very tasty fish dish (unfortunately I forget the name of the fish).  I understand that the owners of Mr. Choi's Garden were part owners of the Gloriamaris Restaurant some years back, and that after parting ways with their other partners, they decided to come up with their own restaurant at the space vacated by Country Waffles (which lost money and closed shop).  The interior design of the place is pretty unique for a Manila-based Chinese restaurant, the yellow lights are slightly subdued and the motif is primarily red with undertones of black.  Although this restaurant is not as fancy, I found myself reminded of the interior design of the Buddha Bar in Dubai (I understand that this world famous restaurant is coming to Manila along Kalayaan Avenue, and that will surely be the subject of another blog item).  Excellent Cantonese food; make sure you are prepared to pay top-end prices though, approximately P2,000 per head at the least.