New kid in town (1)…

I love dim sum!!! So I was delighted to discover that there’s a new dim sum place in town. Well, actually it’s just a stall named “Little Kitchen”, located at a coffee shop in the commercial area near my house. For one thing, the name sounded intriguingly impressive…so I had to go and give it a try. Well, I had this basket of char siew pau (barbequed pork buns)…

 

It certainly was nothing like char siew pau!!! No doubt, they had generous pieces of meat inside…but they were not red in colour and definitely did not have the char siew flavour. The skin was the old-time Sibu pau kind of skin, not like the usual dim sum pau. It tasted o.k. but I would not want to have it again. Other than that, I also had this…

This is glutinous/sticky rice wrapped with lotus leaf. They had a few miserable pieces of chicken, half a shitake mushroom…and that was about it. It wouldn’t have mattered that much if it had tasted wonderful…but wonderful is hardly the word for it. Far from it, in fact!!! I bought something like this at a stall at Rejang Park – something they called pillow/chin thau chang for RM5.50…

It was big (…enough to share with my old lady!) and inside, they had lots of hidden treasures/pleasures…

There was a lot of meat and besides that, sweet yam paste (or nee), peanuts, Chinese sausage (lap cheong)…and it tasted very nice. Must go back and get another one soon!!! As for the “new kid in town”, I guess you can just give it a miss, take my word for it!!!