In stepping into a new decade, things have already repeated themselves. Gone back to places I haven't been to for years, in Bangkok, in HK and in Taipei too. This place offered some very classic Peking dim sum and cuisine as a legacy from the late Ching Dynasty. It has been 100 years since Ching Dynasty got overthrown, and I was told the shop was run by the royal chef who served the dim sum section for Empress Dowager. This royal chef family fled to Taiwan during the split up of the communist and republican parties in the late 1940's. There the royal chef family introduced their house recipe of some very classic Peking dim sum.
1-5. The shop was once closed down due to some financial problem, but was re-opened 2-3 years ago. Everything is still the same, except the menu offered even a wider choices and some lunch set menu starting from TWD365 (appro. US$13).
6. the entrance.
7. This is a cute sign for implying to visitors from not pushing the door too hard, as in the meaning "palm air punching to open".
8. appetizer.
9. pumpkin soup. Pretty nice as it's with some crunchy nuts.
10. Veggie noodle soup. The chef did a good job from not putting too much salt and sugar to cover the nice flavour of all these rich vegetarian ingredients.
11. Meat sauce noodle, another nice noodle and it has a colorful mix of veggie and beans. It told the old time Chinese cooking using more variety of veggie and beans to get a balanced diet.
12. Braised mixed veggie. A bit surprising for me to taste 菱角 (don't know the exact English term), and it is pretty nice.
13. Stir fried baby spinach. Quite surprised with the way they use ginger slices to stir fry this veggie.
14/15. 洛神花涷 (guess it is quite close to Roselle), very nice jello.
16. Osmanthus roll 桂花涼糕, all the sweet dim sum are not sweet at all, nice smooth texture.
17. Chinese hamburger 燒餅, as you can see, the bun is with many layers. Very nice too.
18. Siu Lon Bao, actually I was told Siu Lon Bao should be a mini bun like this, in the Northern part of China.
19. 碗豆黃 & 驢打滾, the 2 typical Peking dim sums. Very smooth texture and again not sweet at all. Next to it is the black plum drink. Very nice too.
20. Milk pudding - this is a must for a dessert. Don't know how they could make this pudding so silky smooth and again very little sweet of it so that the original milk flavour can be tasted. Of course, some very nice milk is used. Otherwise, it would just expose the poor ingredients used. So the bill for 2 persons is about NTD800 (appro. 28).
3 comments:
wow nice tempting meal
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Yummy yummy.
LA had this same name restaurant few years ago with similar cuisines shown here, but now changed to another name for Peking Duck.
I think I was told that the financial problem came on the dispute of the patent and trademark and name of the restaurant. So it had to be closed back then.
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