HARBOUR VIEW — Restaurant in Efate

Despite some of the reviews, I am glad we decided to try this place. I grew up in Toronto which has a huge Chinatown so authentic Chinese food is easy to come by. We don’t like what we call “American Chinese” food. Given the menu is extensive, you need to choose wisely. In my estimation they have authentic dishes hidden amoung the westernized ones… you just have to know what’s what. We had the “special chili beef” and it was excellent. Good serving size (enough for 2 people) and reasonably priced. Also one of the few places in Efate with good service. We hope to return before we leave… we already did once actually and they were closed despite their hours listed on Google so watch out for that. Unfortunately not an uncommon practice on the...

Back to Pacific Ocean islands region again, this time in Vanuatu (near Solomon Islands). Very excited to have lunch at this restaurant in that serves coconut crabs! It was my first coconut crab, cooked Chinese style. It was fried with a little ginger and garlic, retaining the original sweet natural taste of a crab dish.

The coconut crab is of a medium size, and undoubtedly the star of the meal. The flesh is similar to crabs, but the creamy crab butter has an infusion of coconut milk taste, as their natural food are coconuts!

As it was the star of the meal, the other food are similar to the usual Chinese food found around the world catered to...

Chinese lady/ owner (likely from GuangZhou province) was really nasty to all the local staffs. (Not a pleasant dining environment.)

Food: Hot & sour soup: more like sweet & sour soup (when I asked for hot sauce, I wasn’t informed that I’d be charged VT100 for the soy sauce with a few slices of chillis, which wasn’t even “spicy oil/hot sauce”.) Garlic beef rib: barely any meat/ribs. Beef hofun: some hofun was undercooked/hard to chew. Seafood tofu hotpot: this might be the only editable dish amongst what we’d ordered.

Honestly, won’t recommend. (Tried Golden Port the next day, better price and...