Pearl Castle Cafe (Metrotown)

Last time I was at Pearl Castle Cafe at Old Orchard Mall near Metrotown, I had a pretty lame tea. This time another friend dragged me there for lunch (her treat, so her choice) and it turned out to be really decent and good quantity for price!
I didn't try their drinks/dessert again to re-review those.

CASH ONLY. CASH ONLY. CASH ONLY.

Assorted Stir Fried Spicy Pot ($9.95?)

Spicy but not excessive and no lingering burn on the tongue.
Not secretly filled with cheap veggies -- it's a smallish looking plate but they don't skimp on non-veggie content. Two big prawns included.
You need to spend a couple bucks extra to "make it a combo" including rice. If another dish has rice already you might want to skip that depending on how much you can eat.
Spicy sauce obviously ends up at the bottom. Remember to scoop deep for it if you're having it with rice.
Simple yet delicious and a good mix of ingredients to keep it from being boring as you eat it.

2018-May-20 Pearl Castle Cafe (Metrotown) - Assorted Stir Fried Spicy Pot

Cheese Milk Seafood and Pork Hot Pot ($14.25?)

A mound of what looks like that processed parmesan cheese you get out of a shaker in supermarkets.
Doesn't taste milky at all -- tastes like salty parmesan cheese. Which in turn is comparable to a salty savory broth. So overall this sounds adventurous (milk in your hot pot?) but doesn't taste too strange.
A lot of soup so if you have too much of that it's filling just because of it. Don't plan to drink it all.
Contents include two big prawns, fish cake, fish balls, some vegetables (not that much and certainly not the majority of the content), slices of pork, mushrooms, a few squid tentacles. Nothing bizarre here and quite simple really. Just assorted stuff in broth.
Comes with one large bowl packed firmly with rice, so there's quite a bit of rice there. Depending on your appetite this could be good enough as a meal for two. Price for portion is really decent here as meals go, for lunch or for dinner.

2018-May-20 Pearl Castle Cafe (Metrotown) - cheese milk seafood and pork hot pot

Weekend lunch was busy! Service was courteous and not rushed though the servers were sort of scrambling to keep up right at the noon lunch rush.

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