Chinese Novel Twelvemonth Celebrations @ Eating Seat Chef Choi, Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur
Kamis, 02 Desember 2021
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The Year of the Rabbit is exactly some the corner...in most 3 weeks time. Tis' the flavor to feast as well as celebrate with customs rich inwards auspicious meanings. In the Chinese New Year's Day festival, nutrient plays an of import purpose - uniting menage unit of measurement for the all of import reunion dinner, gathering with fellow workers to mark the cease of the lunar year and of course, the get-togethers with friends to feast on the festive goodies.
One of my favourite traditions is the yee sang. Essentially it is a salad in essence packed brimful of assorted vegetables, crispy crackers, sesame seeds, peanuts as well as raw fish, all tossed inwards a plum sauce. Previously reserved for the 7th twenty-four hr menses of the Chinese New Year's Day (i.e. Yan Yat), demonstrate restaurants capitalise on this tradition past times serving the auspicious salad equally presently equally Christmas is over.
At Chef Choi's, inwards a celebratory dinner alongside expert former friends who are devout foodies, nosotros sample 1 of the best yee sangs inwards town. Going downwardly to the pith of the whole dish, Chef Choi's possessor had concocted their ain surreptitious yee sang sauce that lightly dresses the salad. Made with preserved plums, apricots as well as the element X from China, the sauce is as well as thence delectable, nosotros cease upwardly having it for dessert!
The yee sang is lightly anointed with the yee sang sauce....just a smidgeon to coat the vegetables as well as raw fish as well as thence the textures don't squeeze up into each other until they are no longer noticeable. Unlike other restaurants that drench their festive salad with the sauce, the mouthfeel hither is unlike since the dough crisps stay crackly good.
A feast is never the same without a deluxe particular since celebrations ever telephone telephone for "the best of the best". This is said to symbolise wealth as well as I gauge inwards terms of positive thinking, likely wealth inwards the upcoming Lunar New Year's Day too. In this uncomplicated yet decadent feast, nosotros supped on what the Chinese term equally fatt tiu cheong - the prized soup filled with the most luxurious ingredients. Also known equally the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, legend claims that the soup was as well as thence enticing that it tempted a monk to saltation over the wall to sense of savor the wondrous soup.
This deluxe version (RM450++) is double boiled over a deadening burn downwardly for sixteen hours. All the goodness is sealed inwards a large tureen glued tightly together with newspaper as well as egg white. A whiff of the deadening cooked soup may non brand us saltation walls but nosotros were tempted too since it was incredibly concentrated with the essence of all the wonderful ingredients.
The soup is served inwards a special manner, layer past times layer...the kickoff for me fifty-fifty though this is non the kickoff fourth dimension I'm eating this dish. The kickoff layer is thick as well as slightly gluey from the collagen from the sharks fin as well as rich with the abalone essence. The primal to the aromatic soup is the prized cordyceps that resemble worms. These pocket-size unassuming Chinese fungi tin flame fetch a crazy whopping prices as well as was by far the most expensive particular inwards the soup. Nowadays, due to the difficulty to rootage for cordyceps, most of the soups comprise cordyceps flowers, a cultivated fungi with an smell similar to the prized ingredient.
The instant layer had us enjoying each of the ingredients - the body of body of water cucumber that is a blob of soft collagen, the fish maw, the whole Japanese scallops as well as the fork-tender soft abalone. The soup is non equally rich equally the kickoff drawn thick broth but all the same incredibly aromatic. Lastly, we enjoy the tender dark chicken with the prized cordyceps. The whole dish is incredibly breadbasket satisfying specially since that dark was a fiddling chilly from the heavy rain.
Next is some other prized dish, steamed presently hock (bamboo or marble goby fish) inwards soy sauce - the best agency to bask this fragile as well as sweetness flesh. Last but non least, it is Chef Choi's special waxed meat rice. Unlike other restaurants, where this rice dish tin flame live on overly decadent as well as cloyingly rich, this version is calorie-free as well as fluffy with the utilization of basmati rice. It's fifty-fifty depression GI as well as thence wellness freaks don't demand to worry if they inquire for a instant helping. There's no crust but yous tin flame bask bowl later bowl of the fluffy rice with the aromatic waxed meats. Again the goose liver sausages are my favourite...they're from Hong Kong's famous Yung Kee Restaurant.
That dark nosotros made history, ending our repast with freshly cutting fruits with the yee sang sauce on the side. The yambean and the light-green apple tree goes as well as thence good with the sweetness as well as fruity sauce that 1 is non enough. It's also a keen ploy to larn us to swallow to a greater extent than fruits equally the sauce is but addictive. I reckon nosotros made a revolutionary regain that dark as well as who knows, this may live on the start of a novel dessert for the restaurant.
I'm certain yous must live on enjoying the sew together to the festival with all the feasting. Just remember, all this is for a cause since it is filled with auspicious symbols to usher inwards a prosperous Lunar New Year.
Happy Feasting!!
Chef Choi Restaurant
159 Jalan Ampang
Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03-2163 5866
(Non Halal. Open from 12-2.30pm, 6-10pm. Restaurant is located inwards a standalone bungalow betwixt the Chinese temple as well as Nasi Kandar Pelita. For the total laid upwardly of pictures, come across my Flickr set. For the total array of Chinese New Year's Day laid upwardly menus, click on this link.)
*Note that this repast was non paid past times the reviewer.