Hong Kee Tim Sum, Damansara Jaya

(Non-Halal)

After hearing about Precious Pea's eating adventure at Hong Kee Tim Sum, I knew that I just had to go there as they have my favourite, Sang Chou Loh Mai (Fried Glutinous Rice) that I have eaten only previously in Chinatown, San Francisco.

So off we went one early morning and reaching there at 8.30am, the restaurant was packed and buzzing with activities. Once we sat down, we were shown a tray of raw dim sum by a staff. Seeing the look on our faces, we were told that they will steam our selection first before serving it to us. Phew! :p

No, those aren't our orders! But it could have been ;o) or did we actually eat more than that?

Our selection was served in a matter of minutes, here's the steamed selection.

Spinach Dim Sum - this had a mixture of pork and shrimp. The mixture of meat was rather chunky (which I shy away from usually) but since it had a certain springy bite to it coupled with the fact that it was tasty, I ended up liking this little greenie!

The filling for the Siew Mai was quite similar to the Spinach one but the meat was more processed, hence, less oomph and was just okay.

When I first saw this before it was steamed, the egg crepe skin dumpling looked "regal", almost like a serving of Peking Duck. I was disappointed when it came back to our table, steamed and "civilian" looking like the usual beancurd roll that we usually have. Took a bite and the filling was like exactly the siew mai we had. We also had an order of Har Kau (prawn dumpling) but it was not that tasty.

Char Siew Bao (no relation to a particular blogger's other half) is a steamed white bun with barbequed pork filling. It looked promising but a bite into it revealed the almost no flavour/smell filling. Did they forget to put something in that morning??? This was the same with the wu kok (yam dumpling)! Looked promising but faltered on "delivery".

Char Siew So - given the Merit award by us as its pastry was nice, peppered with sesame seeds and the BBQ pork filling definitely tasted better.

The MAIN REASON for our visit, the Sang Chau Loh Mai, was ordered through the staff as it's not displayed on a tray (along with orders for the char siew pau and the rest of the fried selection). We unanimously crowned the Sang Chau Loh Mai as the clear winner and were already planning when we would come back again to eat this simply delightful dish (after our first spoon of it. Ha ha ha....). However, it is only available on weekends :o(

Came turned upside down in a clear bowl on the plate, the fried glutinous rice had generous bits of lap cheong (Chinese sausage), mushroom, egg and chives. Each spoon was a delight and if I could have my way (without the consequences! ha ha ha...), I would have this for breakfast, lunch and dinner!

The fried carrot cake was aromatic and tasted good with bits of eggs, beansprouts and chives. I like that the carrot cake was soft yet firm. Mushy carrot cake for this dish is a no-no for me but this one here passed the test.

Hong Kong Chee Cheong Fun (CCF) are broad sheets of rice noodles rolled and steamed with usually either prawn or pork filling. Being a fan of CCF, we ordered a plate of CCF with char siu (BBQ Pork) filling. The CCF was smooth in texture and rather thin making this another dish with a Merit Award.

Well, I'm definitely coming back here again for another visit, ordering the nice tasty Dim Sum selection. Glutinous Rice....we shall meet again soon! :o)

"Dim sum - A touch of the heart but the pleasure lingers!" - wmw

Hong Kee Tim Sum
18 & 20, Jalan SS22/25 (at the outer square of Atria, next to RHB Bank)
Damansara Jaya
47400 Petaling Jaya
(opens from 7am till 3pm daily)

Tel : 012-6069787

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