Description: On, off and around the beaten track in Asia
The last time I went to Red Star was about 30 years ago, for a wedding dinner. The venue was shared by three couples that night, so you can imagine it was chaos and crowd.
This is what its normal self looks today.
Reminds me very much of the days when, on certain occasions, we would eat out with either of my grandmas at these crowded, bustling Chinese restaurants, including at Sin Leong, Dragon Phoenix and Lai Wah, Red Star’s contemporaries in the star Cantonese food quartet. [Read here about the four disciples of Master Chef Luo Chen Seng of Cathay Restaurant and them inventing lohei !]