The Wedding Dinner of Brandon & Sandy.

Nowadays wedding are so lavish and elaborately planned.

The wedding of my niece Sandy and her husband Brandon at The Crowne Plaza Mutiara, Kuala Lumpur was like attending an Award winning night-welcome drinks and tit bits, red carpet and photo session with the happy and lovely couple against a backdrop of their named logo.

 
The guests started to trickle in from 6.45 pm- dinner was served at around 8.45 pm-ended at around 11 pm with more photo sessions..

 

The 8 course halal Chinese food set served-was a bit cold (maybe because of the distance from the kitchen) and salty-otherwise it was perfect.

Deluxe Four Hot Seasons-deep fried "Har Lok", bean curd spring roll, fried egg with shark's fin & yam ring with prawns, onion, red and green capsicum.

Braised shark's fin soup.

Roasted chicken with Si Chuan "Ma Lat" sauce.

Steamed Patin in Hong Kong style.

Stir fried prawns with mayonnaise sauce

Steamed glutinous rice in Lotus leaf.

Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel,

Jalan Sultan Ismail,

Kuala Lumpur.

YE Traditional Dumplings

Duan Wu Jie (Rice Dumpling Festival) falls on the 5th day of the 5th month in the Chinese Lunar calendar i.e. 16/06/21010.
It is celebrated among the Chinese to pay respect to a patriotic poet Qu Yuan who sacrificed his life by jumping into the Puo Luo River.
Dumplings were then thrown into the river by fishermen to prevent the fishes from eating his body !

Nowadays, dumplings is sold throughout the year in restaurants, hawker center, street corners and wherever there are Chinese people.

YE Traditional Dumplings located in Pandan Jaya served many types of dumplings in their restaurant.

The choices are mouthwatering like dumplings with white rice, organic brown rice, abalone, Sambal dried shrimps, Nyonya style...etc
They even accept orders for special ingredients Dumplings i.e.- at a different price ??

Workers making the Dumplings.

Golden Chang-long rectangular, shaped like a pillow and bamboo leaves wrapped-white glutinous rice filled with Chinese sausage, dried oyster, pork belly, salted duck egg, sliced mushroom and dried chestnut-the glutinous rice was tight and firm and the ingredients were not too salty-enough for two persons-Rm8.80/

Sambal Dried Shrimps Chang-wrapped in a triangle shape by two bamboo leaves-the glutinous rice were a bit loose and the fillings of coarsely chopped dried shrimps with spicy and hot Sambal was heavenly !-Rm5.80/

Note:Hemp strings should be a better alternative to those plastic strings.

Location:8G, Jalan Pandan Jaya 3/9,
Pandan Jaya, Kuala Lumpur.
Tel:03-9284-5325.

Ah Yat Abalone Forum Restaurant.

I attended my friend's lavish birthday dinner which was held at Ah Yat Abalone Forum Restaurant in Jalan Kemajuan, Petaling Jaya.

As the CNY was a just a week away, Yee Sang was part of the set dinner.

Parking is horrible with two other restaurants side by side of it but car jockey is available.

Name of the restaurant engraved on wood.

Glass display of Shark's fin and Abalone.

Salmon Yee Sang-with very fresh shredded ingredients-one of the best that i have eaten.

Braised Shark's fin soup with crab meat and bird nest-a notch above others!

BBQ Whole suckling pig-someone stole a piece before I could snapped the photo-crispy skin with a layer of fat and some lean meat-dip in brown sauce for added flavor.

Stir fried fresh Prawn with sliced white squid and sweet pea beans-a light and very refreshing dish.

Stewed fresh Abalone with goose web seated on blanched Bok Choy and delicious brown sauce-chewy abalone and gelatinous-like goose web.

Steamed Tiger Garoupa with superior grade Soy sauce and peanut oil and garnished with cilantro and spring onion-fresh and fine textured.

Deep fried crispy Chicken-well marinated -crisp skin with moist and tender meat.

Fried glutinous rice with preserved meat garnished with egg omelette and chopped spring onion-wrapped in Lotus leaf-fragrant and fulfilling !

Red bean soup with glutinous rice ball-fine and smooth and not overly sweet.

Sweet pastries of beautifully designed red bean paste rolls and Wolfberries/Longan jelly.

Location: Lot 98-3, Jalan Kemajuan,
Section 13, Petaling Jaya,
Tel:03-7960-4988.