Dim Sum @ Kedai Kopi Hup Seng Hin.

Kedai Kopi Hup Seng Hin is located near a bustling wet and dry market.

Many husbands will sit and hang around the many strategically located kedai kopi (coffee shops) to enjoy a hot or cold drink while waiting for their wife to do the marketing.

For the two of us it was after our morning exercise.

A good time to rest our weary legs and eat some dim sum with a hot pot of Pu'er tea for breakfast.

Here the dim sum are freshly hand made daily and served piping hot.

Some tasted average but we particularly like their deep fried wanton, wu kok (deep fried yam pastry) and tai pao.

Parking is bearable.

Siew mai with steamed fish balls in the background-RM3.30/tray.

Deep fried Yam Pastry-Rm3.80/

Steamed tai pao - soft fluffy skin - filled with chicken meat, sliced pork, mushroom, hard boiled egg and strips of  sweet yam bean-not oily at all-wholesome meal-Rm3.50/

Total bill:Rm16.50/
Location: 2, Jalan Lengkeh,
Taman Cheras,Kuala Lumpur.

 All photos taken with Samsung Tablet.

Yuan Garden Dim Sum House.

Yuan Garden Dim Sum House is another new kid on the block, replacing part of Sri Siam Restaurant.

Located in a corner lot with good road frontage along the busy SS2 area-airy, clean and spacious with  fuss-free furnishing.

We were there on an early Saturday morning "yum char" with the day's newspaper in hand.

Browsing through the latest murder news with a pot of hot Pu'er tea and dainty cups filled with it to wash of the oil and fats !

A guy with a trolley full of warm deep fried pastry came offering his ware while steamed dim sum have to be order on a order form. 

Prices are quite reasonable-ranging from Rm1.80-Rm4.50.

Parking is OK.

Tai Pao (big bun)-fluffy skin and filled with chicken, pork, egg, yam bean,Shiitake mushroom and traces of ginger juice-very authentic-comparable to big restaurant-worth the buck ! 

Prawn roll-wrapped with bean curd sheet and deep fried-came straight off the fryer-oily but sweet and fresh-bean curd sheet a bit salty.

Char siew pao (BBQ pork bun)-soft and fluffy-tasty and meaty!

Siew Mai-steamed prawn/minced pork wrapped in yellow wanton wrapper-small in size but fresh.

Green chillies stuffed with fish paste-generously sized but tasted a bit off.

Chicken rolled with bean curd sheet-the thigh meat was tender and meaty-again the bean curd sheet was salty-one of my favorite.

Location: 58 & 58-1, Jaln SS2/24,

Petaling Jaya,

Selangor.

Tel: 03-7873-5655.

DIM SUM

Dim sum literally means "touch the heart". It is also associated with early morning "yam cha" It is becoming more of a Chinese culinary culture in Malaysia with the mushrooming and opening of many dim sum shops. They usually open from early morning to noon. Many people enjoy their dim sum with a hot pot of their favorite tea, which helps in the digestion and washes away the fats and saltiness in some of the dishes. Here i am enjoying my yam cha with friends, at Restaurant Jin Xuan Hong Kong located at Damansara Jaya, Petaling Jaya.

per basket rm3.50/rm5/

bean curd skin rolled with chicken drumstick-was very tender

bean curd skin rolled with minced pork-meaty

raw fried glutinous rice with wax pork-delicious

har kow- prawn dumpling-fresh and succulent

siew mai-pork and prawn dumpling

seaweed wrapped fish paste and prawn-tasty

fish balls-springy

deep fried prawn rolls-crispy and flavorful