Due to an irrational craving for Peking Duck, our April Birthday dinner gathering was this year held at South Sea Seafood Village in Millbrae. The 2 ways duck was perfect - the fat perfectly rendered off and the skin light and crisp, served with puffy mantou style wrap. The lettuce cup filling made with the duck meat was probably the best I've ever had. However, we didn't order the soup ahead of time so we missed out on that - no duck 3 ways. I also loved the roast suckling pig, which again, had perfect skin and juicy meat and came with a sweet/savory sauce for dipping. A lot of times, the cold cut platter with jellyfish comes with dried up slices of tough meat but here everything was served just perfectly chilled and tender, except for the jellyfish, of course, which was appropriately bouncy. Our sandpot order was full of firm eggplant and little diced bits of pork perfectly just spicy enough. The walnuts for the walnut prawns were less candied than I'm normally used to, but were much crispier for it. The prawns themselves were served just tender and had the correct balance of creamy mayo dressing. We also ordered flash fried marigold, in Thailand, or "hollow heart greens", in Chinese, that were tossed with jalapeno's and a fermented tofu sauce. Finally a whole fish was stir fried with various vegetables in a cornstarched sauce, with the fins and head deep fried for easy bone picking tenderness.

The Birthday noodles were a little less than al dente, but held up the day after. Have a Cantonese speaker make the reservations, because otherwise they seat you at a shitty table where the door drafts over you every 15 minutes and then will refuse to move you to better seats in an otherwise not that busy restaurant. They also have takeout, which I imagine is a pretty luxurious meal for home.