Dim Sum

The literal translation of Dim Sum, the food served at Yum Cha, is 'touch the heart' which can be taken to mean your heart's delight. It is said that the meal Yum Cha (meaning to drink tea) began as a range of snacks on offer in the tea houses that dotted The Silk Road from 300BC, connecting China to the trade routes of Europe and Africa via Asia Minor. Today there are in the vicinity of two

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Heard much raves about this place, Victor's Kitchen , for their famous dimsum. So i put it on my must-try list, too bad when The Boy went for the PR completion, everything ended too late, so we missed it. Luckily today we are on time for a try.Ok, walk around and finally found it , at a corner shop in Sunshine Plaza, small little shop, looks cozy to me. Started with the orders of some recommendation that i read around , the Siew Mai, Har Kao, Scallop sauce steamed carrot cake, CHicken and Sausage Glutinous Rice, Oyster Sauce Char Siu Bun, Steamed Spare Ribs with black bean sauce....and not forgetting the famous Milky Custard Bun.With much antiixpation, most of the dim sum are served. Tried out with the Siew Mai, ermm...what should i said? It taste only so- so, and The Boy thinks it taste b

Wake up in the morning quite late. After settle and pack everything, we checked out from the hotel and drive for our "Brunch" (Breakfast and lunch together). We were looking at one Dim Sum (點心) restaurant along Jalan Gajah Berang. Info from 9W2KG. After around 30 minutes of merry-go-round, we found the shop finally. The restaurant call "Ban Hong Xiang Tea House". 9W2KG advised me to go early or after the breakfast time, because the place is pack and crowded during morning session. The best time is after 11am. When we reach the shop, they are about to close. Luckily there are still some dim sum enough for us! All were delicious!The meat ball was good serves with homemade chili! Most of the 'dim sum' here are worth trying. No regrets for finding it! This shop seems like a family business to me, because I can see most employees here have similar face. Look like brother and sister. The shop open from Monday to Sunday, will close twice in a month during weekday

Wake up in the morning quite late. After settle and pack everything, we checked out from the hotel and drive for our “Brunch” (Breakfast and lunch together). We were looking at one Dim Sum (點心) restaurant along Jalan Gajah Berang. Info from 9W2KG. After around 30 minutes of merry-go-round, we found the shop finally. The restaurant call “Ban Hong Xiang Tea House”. (N2°12.524 E102°14.567) 9W2KG advised me to go early or after the breakfast time, because the place is pack and crowded during morning session. The best time is after 11am. When we reach the shop, they are about to close. Luckily there are still some dim sum enough for us! All were delicious!The meat ball was good serves with homemade chili! Most of the 'dim sum' here are worth trying. No regrets for finding it! This shop seems like a family business to me, because I can see most employees here have similar face. Look like brother and sister. The shop open from Monday to Sunday, will close twi

Breakfast + Lunch at Tai Thong Restaurant at SS2 An UntoldCityLife.com’s Taste Bud Review by Xiao Loong Zi Overall taste bud: 3.5 stars (6 dishes for two persons at RM62.70) What a lazy Saturday morning! Where would you go for a simple breakfast? I think I am getting sophisticated on foods nowadays. So going to Tai Thong for a brunch is something unusual in my life. This “unlucky” friend in PJ was called to company me to review Tai Thong’s dim sum and foods. It was extremely crowded inside the restaurant at 11am. Most tables already filled with big families and we were lucky enough to get a table in a nice section. Ok… let see the mouth-watering dim sum and foods Our dim sum set The yummy “Siew Mei” The “Har Kao”? Can someone tell me what is this called? :p (I think this is the “har kao”, right?) Fish ball cake? (Don’t really know how you call it :p) This “Lou Mei Kai” got pork meat! So I d

Where is a good place to take breakfast when you don't normally eat anything in the morning ? I was thinking of Amy Yip's Big Boobs Paos, so I drove down to Taman Connaught to try and get my hands on those boobs Paos. When I arrived at Seong Kee (didn't know this place was called Seong Kee, till now) I just got reminded why I have not been to this place very often. To get there in the first place, you need to maneuver your car through hap hazard parking, and hope your car do not get scratched on the way. Secondly, you will need to park your car far far away and walk in the hot sun to get to this restaurant. Alas, the si tao poh told me, Amy Yip's Paos Habis Dijual... so had to settle for something else, since I walked so far to get here , doesn't make sense to walk away right ?. Its a weekday morning, and I can't help but notice how brisk business was. After they clear one table, another group of customers come in...I ordered the HKCCF (pic top) and found it to be so s

Last night we wanted a quick bite to eat and didn’t feel much like Subways or MacDonalds and we already ate a quick wok meal this week. So on the way to Rembrandtplein we came across Dim Sum Court on the Rokin close to the V&D department store (there are 2 more locations close to Leidseplein and on the Zeedijk). The formula of this place is simple. There is a buffet with different warm Chinese dishes (meat, fish or vegetables in sauce, fu yong hai, fried spring rolls, rice etc.), some cold sour vegetables and of course dim sum where the place gets its name from. The dim sum are in baskets being steamed. There was not a great variety in dim sum when we were there yesterday though, but maybe that was because we were there rather late. When you get in the place, you pay €8,50 per person to the girl behind the cash register and she gives you a plate. Then you pick one of the free tables, which have placemats and utensils, and you attack the food in the buffet. Drinks are no

We're onto the last day of my Hong Kong food trip. So far I've managed to eat about 4-5 meals a day, which is definitely below average I would say. My last day was on a Monday and I would be taking a midnight flight back to Seoul. When I woke up my aunt and I proceeded to Olympian City Mall for dim sum. Let's take a quick look at what was on the menu, shall we?First up we had an order of spring rolls served with a mayonnaise dip. This was an interesting way to present the spring rolls--in a plastic cup!Any big fans of congee out there? Congee in Hong Kong is awesome, and this one was full of random animal innards. You name it, it was in here...I'm not a big fan of the intestines and stuff like that, but my aunt enjoyed it!You can't have dim sum without "hah-gow", or shrimp dumplings!My memory is horrible, but I've been eating this dish since I was a kid. It's chewy, delicious, and it's the lining of a cow's stomach. The Cantonese for this dish is "ow pak yeep"...hey, marinate

The previous Hong Kong food update was about dinner, and prior to that it was dim sum. I forgot to post about a "mini" breakfast that I had right before heading to Tsim Sha Tsui for dim sum. My aunt and I quickly popped into one of her favorite cafes for a light snack.This time around I had a hot "yeen yeung" and an order of Hong Kong-style French toast (I scraped away most of the butter--see, I do advocate healthy eating). I also ate half of my aunt's buttered toast. This is the perfect pre-dim sum breakfast. Since I basically consumed a whole bunch of carbs (and some protein from the French Toast) it only lasted the subway ride anyways. Once we traveled from Olympic station to Tsim Sha Tsui, I was hungry again. So don't worry, I was well taken care of. ;)

Droooool... Ok maybe we need a bib for this one. The damned good dish above is called Pai Gwat in Cantonese, and it simply means pork ribs. It's a very simple dish. It's just pork spare ribs that have been chopped into really tiny bite size pieces, and then have been steamed with predominantly black beans and/or black bean sauce, and occasionally oil, salt, pepper, starch, onions, or

More goodies from Chinese Dim Sum. This is Shrimp Cheong Fun, another often ordered dish. What is it? You ever get those really broad noodles often called Chow Fun on most Chinese restaurant menus? Well its the same noodles, except it's left intact as one big sheet. The noodles are made from rice, and the whole thing is steamed, making it very soft to the touch, very pure in taste. The noodle

Ok...It's been a bit too long since we last posted, but we're back, and with plenty of food. Going back to our Dim Sum series, we're gonna talk about what are probably the two most popular dishes that most people order. That yummy little treat up there is called Shu Mai (or shao mai in Mandarin). Probably the most often ordered dish at any dim sum, these are basically small pork dumplings

Chinese food is definitely one of the most popular cuisines around, yet it's so diverse because of the vast regional differences in China that most people have a very limited exposure to it. We thought we'd give everyone a quick overview on one of the more popular dining experiences in Chinese culture, which is Dim Sum. Surprisingly, it's a word that thrown around very often, yet most people

At the rate it's going, the first Chinese car sold in the U.S. might come from GM, assembled right here in North America. Currently GM buys 20 million parts per month from Chinese suppliers. Reuters reports they're increasing their spending by 25 percent a year through 2010. You can expect to see air conditioning, chassis, steering and brake parts coming from the PRC, in addition to the electronics, plastic parts, engines, aluminum wheels (half of the aluminum wheels they use worldwide are Chinese) and other Chinese-made components they currently use. If the trend continues, that "American-made" Chevy will soon have more Chinese content than domestic. An American revolution? I don't think so.