Eat. Travel. Eat!

Some assume the color scheme of a pinkish peach with the clashing aqua turquoise color is one from years ago, and if you were guessing this was the case with 888 Seafood Restaurant, you are right! 888 Seafood Restaurant has been in existence for a long time unlike the newer wave of Chinese restaurants like Capital , Lunasia, and Elite . Although I've known of the place for a long time and have been visiting more than 10 years ago, I haven't been to 888 for the past few years until recently.  The location is just not where I often go to, but after driving around trying to find a place for dinner, we ended up at 888 thanks to one of my dining companion's suggestion. Yes, it was quite empty inside, but we sat down anyway. After we sat down, two complimentary starters arrived. One dish had diced cucumber pickles that were marinated in peppers, vinegar, salt, and sugar, which provided nice heat as well as some sweet and tar...

Back when this place was still in its early stages, some of our friends had visited the King Palace for dim sum several times. Each experience, they said, was very good. And so, for dinner, we decided to try them out to see if they were consistently good throughout the entire mealtimes. The interior was certainly very modern. Specials on different dishes were placed onto a wall. There was also a special meat area which you could order meat from (to go), and over there, you could also see the chefs chopping the chicken and other meats for the diners eating indoors. It is always interesting to see the chefs use their skills to cut pieces of meat :). We had to wait for a while for our seat, which really didn't matter that much other than the fact that we were cold (and when the front door came in, a sudden breeze of cold air came in). When we were seated, they gave us two small plates of mini appetizers. Boiled peanuts and spicy marinated cucumbers were the two small plates. They over...