We decided to defect from our usual Sijie Private Kitchen though, and go to a rival place set up by one of Sijie's relatives who used to work at Sijie's, but had a fight with her (this is what Nic claims anyway :p). The decor is definitely interesting - so many soft furnishings around you do feel like you're invading someone's front room, plus there are a few useless sister-like waitresses hanging around.
The place is 渝川菜館, also at Lockhart Road in Wan Chai. Overall, everything was nowhere near as spicy as Sijie's, but this actually made most things edible!! Part of why we love Sijie's I guess is the challenge of seeing how long you can last before you lost all feeling in your mouth, and this was somewhat lacking here.
Nevertheless, some excellent food to be had. My favourite dish of the night was 夫妻肺片, literally translated as husband and wife pork lungs. I think this might be the first time I've ever eaten it, but so so good. The texture is slightly chewy, but moreishly so, and I liked the level of spicing to give a little warmth:
We also had my favourite 麻婆豆腐, mapo tofu, which made us all reach for that bowl of plain rice:
The chilli chicken lacked any noticeable evidence of actual chicken pieces:
We were also not so impressed with the squid with lychees, which just tasted weird:
But we loved the cold spicy noodles - this dish is normally the one that kills us at Sijie's, but this version was lightly spiced, and the noodles had just the right amount of chew. I could have eaten the whole plate of this had this not arrived right at the end.
It was supposedly the coldest night of winter so far in Hong Kong, so was good to eat some spicy food, but not sure we are in that much of a rush to go back to this place. 
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