Review: Shao Mountain

Fish Fillet with Dual Flavour

This dish is rather large with two fillets. One covered with red chili peppers but was surprisingly milder than the other half which was topped with a green chili peppers. Both were really good. This dish does take a while for the restaurant to prepare. We basically finished the other two dishes before this came out.

Braised Pork Slices with Bean Sprouts

This was ok but a little disappointing. This was about 10 slices of thick bacon. After a couple slices this tasted rather heavy. I wish they could have made the skin more crispy. The bean sprouts were more enjoyable. Tastes better with rice and with another dish that is lighter like Melon with Garlic.

Squash / Melon with Garlic

This is basically squash with a lot of diced garlic on top. This dish nicely balances with the Braised Pork that we ordered (even though I would have liked to have ordered another braised pork dish). Beware for anyone that is not particularly fond of garlic or people on dates, there is a lot of garlic in this dish.

Overall

The spiciness is a nice change. I have not eaten at other places with a high degree of spiciness as this place especially for chinese restaurants. There are quite a few interesting dishes that I would like to return to try. As usual, I also find this place a bit salty for my palate.

Parable: Two friends are walking through the desert

Two friends are walking through the desert.

Some point during the journey, they had an argument. One friend slapped the other.

The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, he wrote in the sand:
"Today my best friend slapped me in the face."

They kept on walking, until they found an oasis where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but his friend saved him.

After he recovered from nearly drowning, he wrote on a stone: "Today my best friend saved my life."

The friend, who had slapped and saved his best friend, asked him, "Why after I hurt you, you wrote
in the sand, and now, you write on a stone?"

The other friend replied: "When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand, where the winds of forgiveness can erase it. When someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone, so no wind can ever erase it."


Learn to write the bad in sand, and to carve the good in stone.

They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, but then an entire life to forget them.



有兩個朋友，在沙漠中旅行。

在旅途中的某點，他們吵架了，其中一個打了另外一個一記耳光。

被打的覺得很痛，但一言不語，在沙子上寫下："今天我的好朋友打了我一巴掌。"

他們繼續往前走，發現了一個綠洲，於是他們決定先洗一個澡。被打巴掌的那位陷入流沙差點淹死，幸好被剛才打了他的朋友救起來了。

被救起後，拿了一了：今天我最好把小劍在石頭上刻的朋友救了我一命。

一旁好奇的朋友問說：為什麼我打了你以後，你要寫在沙子上，而現在要刻在石頭上呢 ?

那一個朋友笑笑回答說：“當我們被一個朋友傷害時，要寫在砂，讓諒解的風抹去它;相反的，如果被幫助，我們要把它刻在石頭上，如此任何風都不能抹滅它！”

要學會將你的傷害寫在沙上，而將別人對你的好刻在石頭上 。

有人說花費一分鐘去找一個特別的人，一小時去欣賞他，一天去愛他，但是之後卻要花一輩子的時間才能遺忘他。