Lao Yang Dim Sum 老杨私房菜点心 @ Jalan Dato Permaisuri, Miri, Sarawak.

The place that I am going to blog is one of the famous places in Miri for dim sum. The patrons seem like never ending while we dine in there. We were lucky to get a table for six of us. 

Apart from the dim sum, you can also order food from their menu. But since we opt to try for the dim sum, we did not order any extra apart from the porridge.

Food that we savour:

Char siew pao

Chicken Feet

Siew Mai

Spare ribs

Har Gao

Spring Roll

Chee Cheong Fun

Five grains porridge with century and pork porridge - RM5

Dried vegetables porridge - RM5 

FoOd PaRaDiSe verdict:

Overall, the dim sum that we tasted were very tasty. The porridge was also very nice and glad that we make a choice to dine in to try out their food. However, I would say, you must try your luck to find a table during the peak hour. The total damage for six of us is RM103.50 which including drinks and GST.

Restaurant that we reviewed:

Lao Yang Dim Sum 老杨私房菜点心

Address: 2450 - 2452 Jalan Dato Permaisuri, 98000, Mirir, Sarawak.

Contact Number : +6085 - 491943

Ming Court Hong Kong Tim Sum Sdn. Bhd.( 明阁香港点心有限公司)

Actually most of the time, I will only bypass Ipoh. Only many years ago I drop by to visit some of the places of interest there. This time is also a drop by for an early breakfast. We arrived at Ming Court at around 6:30am and the restaurant is almost full house. Luckily we managed to get one table for 3 of us.

Once seated, the waitress came to order our tea. And other waiter and waitress came one after the other with assorted dim sum. So we ordered for the following:

Total of our bill is RM43.46. 

FoOd PaRaDiSe Verdict: The food were quite nice. We love the dim sum. But my advice for my reader is to come early if not you will have to wait for quite some time.

Location: 32, 34, 36 Jalan Leong Sin Nam, 30300 Ipoh, Perak.

Tel: 05 - 2557134

FUN TEA GARDEN @ Jalan Dr. Lim Chwee Leong, Penang (CRIZ BON APPETITE 2nd Anniversary)

Before year 2009 ends, I tried my best to blog all the gathering folders in my draft as much as possible. ^-^ So today I am going to blog about the recent events that took place on 18.12.2009 in Fun Tea Garden to celebrate Criz Bon Appetitie 2nd anniversary.

Once we arrived, we had the chance to pick two cards from Criz for lucky draw. Every attendance is entitle for the complimentary meal from various outlet.

Then we waited for other bloggers to arrive and start our "makan" session. There are total of 3 tables. And different table has different types of foods. Some are the same and some differ. I just managed to capture the following foods:

Various types of dim sum such as siew mai, har kao, shark fin kao and......

BBQ Pork Chee Cheong Fun, spare ribs, some deep fried dishes

Otak - Otak, Turnip Cake and other dim sum

Porridge, Lor mai Kai, Prawn Fritters

3 different types of "pao" - Char Siew Pao, Pork Pao and Fermented Pork Pao

3 Different types of noodles ~ Fried Yee Mee (top photo), Crispy Noodles (second row of photo) and Char Hor Fun (last row of photo)
All the three noodles have it different kind of aroma and taste. I was thrilled that they have many different types of noodles. Apart from what you see from the above, they still have other choices.

Egg Tarts and Marble Cheese Cake from Jenni Homemade Cakes

I am surprised to get to taste the egg tart being served here. As it is still hot. It's been few years that I never get to taste a piping hot egg tarts.

Before we wrap up for CBA anniversary party, we celebrate it with marble cheese cake from Jenni Homemade cakes. We sang birthday song and with 2 candles represent 2nd anniversary to CBA. The marble cheese cake is too "rich" in flavours. ^-^

Overall, the foods served in Fun Tea Garden are nice. The main attraction here that I found is that they have many varieties of choices to choose from. Give it a try if you haven't try it before. Following are the details of Fun Tea Garden:
Location: 150 & 152, Jalan Dr. Lim Chwee Leong, 10100 Penang, Malaysia.

Tel: 013-421 1274 (Mr. Danny Ooi)

Business Hours: Dim Sum: 7pm - 6am

GPS: 5.414822, 100.332148

Restoran Aik Hoe, Lebuh Carnorvan, Penang

Have you ever try the golden day styles of "Yum Cha" in Penang before? I heard so much about hubby grandpa stories of where he loved to had his dim sum in Penang and mostly have closed down. Finally, I came to know this place after reading Guang Ming and also from CK blog's. So I tell hubby about this place and we decided to give it a try! But in our first attempt, the restaurant is close. Then we went back again another day. Lucky that it's open. lol

Location: No.6 & 8 Lebuh Carnavon, Penang

(It is near the morning market)
Tel no : 016 472 0971
Business Hours : 5am - 2pm(Closed on Monday)
GPS Coordinates : N05 2502.8 E100 2009.8 (Information from CK blog's)

Restoran Aik Hoe

Chair that crafted with the name "Restoran Aik Hoe"

If you see this on the chair, that's mean you are in the right restaurant. lol

Nice floor decoration
ok...... back to the topic of foods. But before that tell you our incident to this shop. We arrived there after searching a car park and it's during weekday. And to be surprise, we saw many people in the shop. Many are old folks and also some younger generation accompany their parents, granny and grandpa for breakfast. When we spotted seat for two, we grab it and waited. We were wondered whether we should go over the kitchen and order for foods as we saw many people walked to the back of kitchen and came out with foods. But after browsing through other tables, I told hubby, I guessed we need to wait. As many people had nothing on the table except pot of tea.

After waited for few minutes, came the order for tea. We were asked whether we want to have any noodles. And she told us a list of noodles, then hubby decided to try Wantan Mee. Which I will elaborates more in this post.

Then waited for about 15 minutes or more, we saw the staff there carry the big tray of dim sum out from the kitchen and goes one by one to each table. I was like huh...... they still serve it this way? I quite enjoy it though. So we ordered:

Siew Mai

Fun Cheong Kuen

This is something different which we never try before. And we were told by the shopper there that this is very famous. So we ordered and try. We quite like the tastes. As it has the combination of pork, black fungus, shrimp and water chestnuts. Give it a try!

Har Gao

Sweet Corn

The fillings in there is sweet corn. And I was told that it is rather sweet and I warned hubby about that. Since he is sweet corn lover. He decided to try. End up, he also reckon that it is very sweet for him. lol

Yoke Aun Kuen

This is another special thing dim sum which we never encounter before. And we thought it is very big but it is very small pieces. The water chestnut with pork makes the dim sum some sweetness. Have you try this before?

Spare Ribs

Chai Koay

I am actually a chai koay lover and will try any chai koay that is available. In fact, I am waiting for my MIL to teach me her version of chai koay. The chai koay sold in this shop are not bad.

Char Siew Pao

Hubby being a pao lover. Never failed to order any pao during the dim sum section. And he found that the char siew pao is quite nice and the size is eventually cute and small compares to other eateries. And we bought some back for my gal to try.

Gai Chat

We saw this just before we about to pay. But could not resist to try it. It is basically steam chicken. But we found that it is slightly salty for our liking. But the chicken is very tender.

Lor Mai Kai

I purposely took the photos of the steel bowl. I found that it is very cute and small. It is use for lor mai kai. I quite enjoy the lor mai kai in this shop. Not sure why? Perhaps the little cute steel bowl makes me to just loving it. lol

Wantan Mee

After hubby ordered this plate of wantan mee, I asked hubby why he ordered wantan mee in a dim sum shop? Hubby reply me that he feels like trying the wantan mee. ok.... fine with me. The wantan mee arrived after we had few servings of dim sum. And hubby comments that the wantan mee is not bad. Have the springy textures.

Overall, we quite enjoy the old style of dim sum in Penang. And this is in fact my first try of dim sum without using pushing cart instead of using hand to carry the big bamboo baskets. The second encounter is in Sungai Petani which I will blog about it next time.