Following were our steamboat dinner @ home during CNY. So enjoy your Chap Goh Meh!
Steamboat
Desserts ~ Home Cooked Yam by my MIL
Maple Palace Sdn Bhd
47 Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah
10500 Penang, Malaysia.
Tel: 04 – 2279690
We placed our booking 2 days beforehand. And we were surprised that we had a room for ourselves. We were satisfied with the services provided for us. We had a waitress always by our side to serve us.
Following were the 8 course meals that we had for our lunch:
金龙顺景捞鱼生
Prosperity Salmon Yee Sang
I am not very keen of having yee sang. But yee sang is a very popular dishes during CNY. And my gal is having fun when everyone mixed yee sang together.
鸿运大展金钱翅
Braised Shark's Fin with Dried Scallop and Crab Meat
发财龙岡卤水鸭
Braised Duck with Chinese Herbs and Yam
The waitress told me that this is one of their popular dishes in the restaurant. The braised duck is very tender and juicy. My gal loves it very much.
珠光宝气盆菜
Auspicious Abalone Sea Food Treasure Phoon Choy
When this dish being served, everyone puzzled and wonder whether we can finish all the foods. This phoon choy is different from the normal phoon choy. As in this phoon choy, there is no fatty pork. It is more towards seafood.
Inside the Phoon Choy, it consists of prawn, fish maw, sea cucumber, scallop, mushroom, abalone, vegetables, yam and radish. I like the radish very much. It has the sweetness and the radish is not very soft.
普寧豆酱蒸石斑
Steamed Garoupa with "Pu-Ning" Soya Bean Sauce
My MIL loves the “Pu-Ning” bean sauce. It has the combination of spiciness, saltiness and sweetness. The steamed garoupa is very fresh. Everyone enjoyed the freshness of the fish. Even my gal loves it very much. She kept telling us that the fish is very nice.
如意吉祥聚满堂
Maple Palace Specialty Baked Scallop w/ Cheese and Emiko Salad Prawn
We love the emiko salad prawn very much. As for the baked scallop with cheese, most of the elderly cannot take it. It is because of the cheese aroma. They cannot take it but they enjoyed the salad prawn very much.
金瓜芋香腊味饭
Fried-rice with Diced Preserved Meat and Pumpkin Yam
This is the last two dishes being served. Everyone thought that we will not able to finish it since it is fried rice. But the elderly likes it very much. As inside the fried rice there are diced preserved meat, pumpkin and yam. But I found that the fried rice is a bit too salty for my liking.
满堂添喜庆团圆
Sweetened Longan with Gingko Nuts and Wai San
This year my MIL suggested that she had our reunion dinner in a restaurant. As every one of us were so busy. I left Penang around 5pm to rush back to hubby home town for the reunion dinner. There are two sessions for the dinner i.e. 6pm and 8pm. We opt for the 6pm session.
Vividly before CNY, we tried the restaurant foods before. This restaurant is more like “Chu Char” style. We tried few dishes for lunch as following:
Stir Fry Sweet Potatoes Leaf
Guinness Stout Chicken
I heard from my MIL and also hubby aunt that their Guinness stout chicken was superb. Well….. it tastes nice but my gal was reluctant to take it after the first bites. I guess she cannot take the Guinness Stout aroma. The chicken is very tender and juicy. And if you liked the styles that the chicken were not deep fried too dry, you may want to try this out.
Deep Fried Fish with Soya Sauce
This is the first time that they ordered this fish. The outer part of the fish tastes very crunchy. The inner part is very delicious. Not too hard or too soft. Just perfect! However the fish slice is very rich. Sure kids would love this.
Thai Styles Bean curd with Salted Fish
I found that this bean curd is good to go with rice. It has a combination of saltiness and spiciness. My hubby families love this dish very much. Although it is very simple dishes but sometime it works out to be the best.
Following were the 8 course meals that we had for our reunion dinner:
Four Seasons Hot Plate
This is the first dish that we had for the reunion dinner. It consists of handmade fish meats, cuttlefish with special sauce, Chicken with mayonnaise and black pepper meats. Overall……. It’s something different as I never try the hot plates that consist of blanch cuttlefish with special sauce.
Crab Meat Shark Fin Soup
Fu Gui Kampung Chicken
The chicken is tender and soft. It is full of Chinese herbs. However I feel that the chicken should not wrap with the wrapping film. I would prefer that they use other source to wrap the chicken.
Indonesian Styles Prawn with Mantou
We like the sauces used for this dish. Adults are hard to get on hold of any mantou as most of the mantou are fully booked by the kids. For some who cannot take any spicy foods found that the foods are bit spicy for them.
Steam Red Snapper with Teo Chew Styles
Braised Seafood
The braised seafood is quite nice. It is very tender. Kids love it very much. Braised seafood consists of fish maw, sea cucumber, squids, mushroom, carrots and slice abalone.
金玉满堂
The name of the dishes is nice but however we felt that it is very salty. Apart from the ham, fatty pork, slices abalone, there were some carrots, twisted tang hoon and button mushroom.
Desserts ~ Gingko, White Fungus, Dry Longan and Red Dates
It’s never too late to wish everyone “Happy Chinese New Year 2012”.
