Delight in dim sum
By FAZLEENA AZIZ
PENANG VILLAGE,
Lot 8 & 9, Level 3, Great Eastern Mall,
No. 303, Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: 03-4257 1698
Business Hours: 11am to 11pm daily; dim sum available from 11am to
5pm.
FANCY
some dim sum, made the traditional way by hand? Just head to the
Penang Village in Great Eastern Mall, Kuala Lumpur.
Penang Village serves all types of local Malaysian food as well as
Penang Nyonya and Chinese cuisines.
It
offers an extensive range of dishes, including fish, prawns,
soft-shell crab, squid, poultry and tofu, as well as soups and
desserts. There are vegetarian dishes, too.
Among the outlet’s signature dishes are Penang Char Kuey Teow,
Heh Bee Butter Prawn, Two Style Kailan and Penang Assam Laksa.
The
outlet’s black-and-white-themed decor gives diners a comfortable
feeling as they enjoy a hearty meal.
However, it is the fresh ingredients used in all its cooking that
makes Penang Village stand out from other outlets.
The
outlet’s current Dim Sum promotion is an additional treat for
customers wanting the best from the menu.
Dim
sum chef Chin Woo Loong said most outlets served frozen and
ready-made dim sum.
At Penang Village, the chefs pay attention to the details in
preparing all the ingredients and making the products, which takes
an hour and a half.
Chin
said they followed the traditional way of making the dim sum, so
that they looked nice and had a better texture compared with the
those made using machinery.
“What
we are offering during the promotion is cheaper prices, compared
with buying the items from the a la carte menu.
“The
quality of the dim sum is maintained as we do not compromise on the
freshness of the ingredients in all of our dishes,” he
said.
He also said the feedback on the dim sum from most customers was
positive.
Choose from a variety of steamed and deep-fried dim sum, featuring
Steamed Chicken Dumplings, Steamed Shrimp Dumplings, Steamed BBQ
Chicken (Pau), Steamed Fish Ball, Steamed Beancurd Rolls, Steamed
Chicken Feet, Golden Prawn Dumpling, Steamed Glutinous Rice with
Chicken, Chicken & Century Egg Porridge, Seafood & Chicken
Dumpling, Fried Carrot Cake with Bean Sprouts, Deep Fried Mango
Roll with Shrimp, Prawn Dumplings with Mayonnaise, Deep Fried
Beancurd Roll, Deep Fried Taro Yam Dumplings, Baked BBQ Chicken
Pastry, Baked Egg Tart, Deep Fried Radish Cake, Deep Fried Sesame
Balls and Deep Fried Spring Rolls.
Desserts include Durian Roll, Fresh Mango Pudding, Sago Cream with
Fresh Mango, Whole Peanut Cake, Blueberry Pudding served with Ice
Cream, Pandan Coconut Cake, Red Bean Cake and Lotus Seed
Pancake.
The
promotion offers two options, with eight items priced at RM29.90
(set recommended for two to three persons) and 14 items priced at
RM49.90.
The
promotion is available only from 3pm to 5pm, Monday to
Friday.
This is the writer’s personal observation and is not an
endorsement by StarMetro.
