Dim Sum

Eating Dim Sum at this Chinese restaurant near Ipoh Garden South is my family's routine in Sundays' morning! So there's no exception for this Sunday! We went there at about 9.45am, minus the time to look for a parking and seats and ordering, we finally got our dim sums ready at 10.25am. So, we ordered BBQ pork buns, deep fried Taro with Portuguese sauce, steamed prawns rice rolls, steamed prawn dumpling, steamed pork Saui-mai, mini egg custard tart, sticky rice, dried shrimp dumplings, turnip cake and a pot of "Duk Shu Heong"(Chinese tea).

This dim sum eatery outing was rather a weird and extraordinary one. As I started eating the sticky rice, I felt intense pain in the right wrist, until I have to ask the waitress to give me one fork and one spoon. Holding fork and spoon is less painful than holding a pair of chopsticks. Obviously my injured wrist was not healing well:( I have to switched into a Westernized way of eating Chinese cuisine!

Nonetheless, this restaurant is still our family favourite dining spot. We like the place for serving a variety of foods, its cozy environment and ideal location. In the morning, servers wheel their trolleys through the bustling restaurant and are happy to allow customers to lift up the lids of the bamboo baskets to identify the contents. The baskets or plates (containing two, three or four pieces) are inexpensive, enabling visitors to enjoy a diverse and speedy meal. Dim Sum is a Cantonese specialty of this Chinese restaurant. There are also dim sum desserts such as red bean soup, green pea soup, MomoChacha, honeydew and yam desserts, Fu-zhuk barley drink, Taufu Fah, red and white Malagkit sticky rice soup - all for the sweet-toothed.

Served throughout the daylight hours seven days a week, dim sum (literally meaning "to touch the heart") are snacks of freshly-steamed or fried Chinese "canapés". These remarkably-diverse examples of culinary innovation feature many different ingredients. There are scores of different varieties too, and the daily selection will always include noodles, porridge, steamed barbecued pork buns (cha siu bau) and other buns as well, soups and dishes.

And of course, everytime before we leave, we will usually order some foods for take-away. This time we bought custard tarts and steamed sticky rice served with mushroom and chicken.