Posts tagged chinese new year

Shanghai, JW Marriot

Jan 15th

Look, you don’t need a passport to this Shanghai for great food; just head over to JW Marriott in Kuala Lumpur!

All these are part of the Standard Chartered Bank’s Extravagant 8 menu priced at RM888++ per table of 8 for its credit card holders. From now till Jan 20 to Feb 17. And you get free fortune cookies!

Salmon and fresh scallop yee sang with chef Wong Wing Yeuk’s special Chinese mustard sauce

Double boiled soup with wantan dumplings, bamboo pith and dried scallops. Lovely change from the usual sharks fin soup

Sweet and sour fish fillet with pine nuts. The fish meat is cut in such a way that, when deepfried, it bursts into a flower!

Deepfried golden tofu stuffed with foie gras and prawn paste

Braised Shanghainese pork with bamboo shoots and broccoli beautifully presented like the Forbidden City. So yummy and tasty. The meat is braised for hours. Wong says the key to this dish in using a super sharp knife to cut the meat and bamboo shoots into thin sliver. Yet, amazingly, he manages to keep the structure of the “palace” standing

Imperial fried rice with prawns, crabmeat and egg

Shanghai’s signature Xiao loong bao with pastry skin that’s really thin and translucent

Panfried nian gao coated with nutty, aromatic sesame seeds

Glutinous rice cakes in sweetened broth with red dates and dried longan

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Chinese New Year Cupcakes!

Feb 19th

Posted by Su Ting in Food

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All these lovely chocolate cupcakes were made by my god mother. She makes beautiful decorations and the best layer cake!

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Pre-CNY dinner @ Zuan Yuan, One World Hotel

Jan 17th

Posted by Su Ting in Food

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Da Vinci was great but not really.. I wasn’t allowed to snap any photos, how sad. ): Anyway, dinner was filling. Chinese food are always great.

Assorted Tempura Mushroom Yee Sang (RM60 for half portion and RM120 for full portion)
This is one different kind of yee sang. To be honest, although I miss the salmon and the jelly fish, this is actually great!! This is also a dish for Vegetarians. I know, you guys think omg, vegetarian food, I bet it sucks. Try this before you judge.

Deep-fried Spring Roll with Prawn Paste (RM10 per portion)
Hard to eat it cause its quite huge.. But really crispy and yummy. (:

Deep-fried Homemade Nian Gao with Sweet Potato (Comes with promotion and all..)
Really nice nian gao. I had like, 3. I didn’t know it was sweet potato either! It’s much sweeter than the normal ones I had.

Sauteed Celery with Scallops and Caramelised Walnuts
Fresh scallops.. Checked. Crunchy Walnuts.. Checked. Beautiful taste.. Checked.

Wok fried butter prawns with pumpkin cubes, shredded curry leaves, chili padi and salad
This is a dish to admire and accidentally eating too many prawns! The yam carving (Pagoda) looked so pretty meanwhile the butter prawns taste fabulous. I’m going to put on another 500 grams because of this ! ):

Steam dried oyster and fatt choi in tofu money bag with broccoli
Not my kind of dish.. My mother didn’t really fancy it either. Hopefully they improved the dish when Chinese New Year arrives.

Lap mei fun with smoked duck, salted duck with bone and turkey liver sausage. dried prawns, mushrooms and yam cubes
Another dish I dislike. Every Chinese New Year they have this. Either this or the noodles. I’d prefer the noodles. For this particular one is a little bit dry, almost like steamed rice. As for the salted duck.. It’s really salty..