Affluent Kitchen

Came for dinner last night for a late Mother’s Day dinner. We walked in and were immediately seated. I’ve walked past this place a couple times over the last few days, and wondered what was inside. Nice to know it was worth going to.
Had a typical Chinese sit-​down dinner, non-​banquet style.
Had:
some kind of soup rice — not congee. More like Chiu Chow congee, but in a superb broth. This soup rice was topped with mixed mushrooms, fish paste balls, some veggies, etc. It’s a sick person’s ultimate comfort food.
Four plates of assorted veggies — tong choy, bok choy, Chinese lettuce, etc. Each of them were super fresh and delicious.
Crispy beef brisket — this is one of the funkiest things I’ve had in Hong Kong. This is my second time having it (the first was at Golden Bauhinia). It’s braised brisket (wonton noodle style) that’s been coated in a thin batter and deep fried. The way Affluent Kitchen does it, the brisket is tender and the fried layer on the outside leads to a very interesting, and extremely unique mouth feel.
Sweet and sour pork — it was a tad sour, but not bad.
Garoupa and tofu in hot pot — fish was good. Tofu was soft and had that lovely fresh tofu taste.
Some kind of almost honey garlic deep fried fish slice with onions — I’m usually not a fan of sliced fish, because I feel like they salt it and tenderize it and it makes it not taste like fish. This tasted like fish. Good fish. You could tell they sliced it off of a fish. Minor bones. Served with crispy little fried noodles.
Specialty soy sauce chicken — this chicken tastes the way soy sauce chicken should. It also tasted like my grandpa’s super expensive pigeon at Tai Ping Koon. Speaking of pigeon, they have it here, roasted, for $ 58 HKD. We wanted to get one to do a taste comparison between a $ 58 HKD pigeon and a $ 140 HKD pigeon, but they did not have pigeon that night. Sad.
This place has pretty decent prices. Most of the dishes we ordered were in the $ 70 – 80 HKD range, making it on the lower end of Unilocal’s HK $$ range.
Service was good, and the place was clean.
Side note: They have the coolest plates. Their plates have two notches in them specifically so you can put your chopsticks down and not have them roll away from you. Brilliant.