Cré Olé asked proprietor Nicole Chan of Valpark Chinese restaurant, Valpark Shopping Plaza, Morequito Ave, Valsayn, to choose the dish of the week.

Nicole selected a wonton sampler as her appetizer. Her main course comprised lemon chicken, crispy-skin pork and pot-roast fish. Nicole finished a traditional Chinese meal with the most traditional of Trini-Chinese desserts, lychees and ice cream.

The wonton sampler appetizer included every type of wanton Valpark Chinese restaurant serves, both fried and steamed, beginning with the standard shrimp and ending with the extremely tasty sub gum, and incorporating tofu and cream cheese wontons along the way. Notwithstanding the unusual cream cheese version, the star of the opening course was easily the sub gum, fried shrimp wontons drenched in a spicy sweet & sour sauce.

For her main course, Nicole chose three Valpark Chinese Restaurant specialties: lemon chicken, crispy-skin pork and pot-roast fish, a dry, spicy and highly tasty fish dish. The pork, from the belly of the pig, is cooked in an aromatic oven. The lemon chicken was prepared in the traditional manner, de-boned, deep-fried and served with a zesty lemon sauce on a bed of crisp lettuce. The boneless pot-roast fish is highly seasoned and cooked on the flat top of the griddle, almost like a barbecue and has the appearance of a Cajun or blackened fish. To accompany her meats, Nicole served Valpark Fried Rice, which includes tossings of all the meat, seafood and poultry the restaurant offers, and chunky vegetables.

The dessert of ice cream and lychees is the traditional Chinese dessert.