Jul 21 2016.
views 1222A couple of days ago, we went to check out the new Chinese Restaurant located at No 43, Jawatte Road, Colombo.
The General Manager/Executive Chef Rohana Perera explained that Fenghuang Lou was different from most Chinese restaurants as they did not use any Ajinomoto or MSG in their preparations. Everything was organic and herbal hence more healthy.
General Manager/Executive Chef Rohana Perera
They have three Chinese cooks on their team. There is a delivery service which is free of charge and a good option when you are not in a mood to dine out.
Ambience (Stars 3/5)
The interior looks very Chinese. The Manager told us that everything other that the ACs and Bamboo tats had been brought down from China. The chairs, carpeting, wall paper, cutlery, crockery, and everything was from China.
Food
The presentation of the dishes were beautiful. The Fish Ball soup (Rs 750/-) was tasty but the fish balls were rather hard and difficult to handle with the soup spoon. The other dishes we tried out were portions for two.
The Daily Special Chinese Prawn Salad (Rs. 5,000.00++) with Chef’s secret dressing was tasteful and the prawns were really large. This was my favourite.
The Chef said it includes two Crab Balls when ordered. When you order Chef Lee’s Special Chinese Chilli Crab (Rs 6000/- ++) you get a portion of prawn salad tossed in. Feng Huang Lou’s Special Sea Food Platter (Rs. 6,500.00++) which was fairly spicy and chillie hot included green oysters, tiger prawns, muscles, cuttle fish, lobster and lagoon crabs. This is a special every Saturday and includes a soup.
Chef Lee’s Special Chinese Chilli Crab Chillie-crab
Feng Huang Lou’s Special Sea Food Platter
Here are a few other choices on the menu with the price of a regular portion which is adequate for two.
Chicken fried rice with pineapple (Rs 650/-)
Seafood vegetable noodle (Rs 650/-)
Sizzling Chicken with black pepper sauce (Rs750/-)
Prawns in hot garlic sauce (Rs 900/-)
Sliced Chicken in lemon sauce (Rs 540/-)
Crab meat and Shrip omelette (Rs 500/-)
Service
The staff were very friendly and made one feel welcome. Special note must be made of Devon, a staff member who was very obliging and polite.
Parking
They have their own parking so there is no problem for vehicles.
Discounts on cards
NDB 20% till 15th August 2016
AMEX 20% till August 2016
Standard Chartered 20% till 31st December 2016
Standard Chartered (INFINITY) 30% till December 2016
Open - Mon – Sun 11.00am – 3.00pm & 5.00pm – 11.00pm
[email protected], www.fenghuanglou.lk
Hotline – 070 2277 800
Mon – Sun 11.00am – 3.00pm & 5.00pm – 11.00pm
Pics by Samantha Perera
4 Comments
Sonali says:
Jul 22, 2016 at 12:31 pm3 fish balls in what looked like dish water - Not my kettle of fish. This is one Lou where you are ripped off. Maybe those who have money to throw would eat a 10 prawn "Daily Special Chinese Prawn Salad (Rs. 5,000.00++)". Wonder who they are catering to. Not the common man looking at the prices.
hassan says:
Jul 23, 2016 at 02:08 pmDear sonali Thank you for your comments about the article. .just to keep you informed that the price of prawns salad is only rs500 and chef Lee salad is 600..sorry it was a printing error Rohan p. chef /General Manager
Thush says:
Jul 22, 2016 at 10:26 pmAfter reading the article we visited the resturant for dinner. The place is wonderful and the food is delicious. The prices are reasonable. Prawn salad as you had shown was great. Although the place was full today the staff was very helpful and made us very comfortable in a private room. I recommend to try any of the soup in the hot kettle.
mary stellah says:
Jul 26, 2016 at 11:11 amHi Niro we visited Fenghuang Lou (difficult to pronounce) last night ,yes it was a good place but only issue was bit crowded with some chinese groups on the ground floor, but we got a separate room in the 1st floor. very private and only we were there in that room.the food was delicious specially the wok fried rice . the soup came in a kind of a bowl with fire. first time we have seen this.the waiter service was very good although he could not speak good english.when my husband started talking in sinhala we saw that he was very comfortable in explaining the menu.very charm and nice young boy . if i am not mistaken his name is Chalana. After the meal we had lot of left over so we wanted to pack it and the boy refuse to give the pack food to our hand , he came up to our vehicle and gave it.Its seems that whoever the management is that they given the priority for gust service.. Stellah