During my trip to Hong Kong, I had tasted some delicious dim sum which the taste still linger in my mind. The most memorable one would be the taste of their siu mai. To satisfy my craving for dim sum, I paid my second visit to Fun Tea Garden as I got this RM50 cash voucher from a contest which organized by Criz.

We arrived there around 10++ am, and to my surprise most of the dim sum are sold out. The onwer of the restaurant told us that currently they are having a 50% promotion on the dim sum. The promotion starts at 7.30am. No wonder there's so little dim sum left when we arrived there. So, the early bird gets to eat the worm, huh?

We were left to very limited choices of dim sum, so we just ordered what's left.

The loh mai kai taste good. Previously I encountered some glutinous rice which were slightly uncooked. But they've improved it where the glutinous rice is very soft.

The porridge taste as good as my previous visit.

Kaya Pau and Tau Sar Pau. I like the kaya pau as it has the pandan kaya filling which is very fragrant. The filling is very generous for both pau.

Fried yam dumpling (wu kok) is too oily.

The big pau taste good with a generous filling. The meat is well marinated.



We have a short chat with the owner. According to him, they are going to launch a new promotion starting January. He's going to launch a 3 dishes and 1 soup lunch set for RM 3.50. That sound cheap. Nowadays economic rice is not that economic anymore. A plate of economic rice with 2 veges and 1 meat would cost at least RM4?

50% off for dim sum OR 3 dishes + 1 soup lunch set for RM3.50? Both of this can be obtained at Fun Tea Garden.

I'll be going back to try out their new set lunch soon.

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Yea. You read it correctly. It's a loh mai kai in a pau which they called it 'kai wo pau (鸡窝包)'. This one was featured in A Taste with Jason program.

This shop is located near IMU - International Medical University @ Sri Petaling. But it wasn't my luck as I went there twice, both around 12pm but this pau has been sold out. But along the street there are a few dim sum restaurants selling this type of pau. As that was the last day I were at KL, it left no choice for me but to buy from another restaurant instead of the one recommended by Axian (Jason).

This is how it look like on top. See the hole on top of the pau, there you can find mushroom and salted egg yolk which is not a usual ingredient in a normal loh mai kai. At the bottom, it looks like the below. Inside there are normal ingredients we can find in loh mai kai. It tasted good. The glutinuous rice is soft with some 'juice' from the chicken and char siew. Yummy.
The restaurant recommended by Jason is:

RESTORAN CLAN 140,JLN RADIN ANUM,SRI PETALING (Tel: 019-3825455)

This restaurant is open for breakfast and also dinner time. The 鸡窝包 is sold in the morning and night as well. I should have cut this pau into half and snap a picture before I eat it. But I only thought of it when I'm almost finish with the pau. Aiyo...

Dim Sum is in my MUST try list for my HK trip. We went to the restaurant which PenangTuaPui dine in.

The dim sum is served in a restaurant named 倫敦大酒楼. We were shocked when we stepped inside. Looks quite grand with expensive shark fins and abalone displayed at the entrance. Since we do not know an alternate place for dim sum, we decided to eat there.

The ambience of the restaurant:

The dim sum that I can't forget is their siu mai. Although I am not a fan of siu mai, but I love the taste. It's totally different from what I ate at KL, PG and Ipoh. Chunks of mushroom can be found inside it.

Next is egg tart. Yummy. The egg filling is so soft and not too sweet. And the pastry is very light.

This one is very nice too. But we do not know what is it. Haha! It's looks like a cream puff but without the cream inside. It's topped with some fine sugar while the dough is very light and soft.

Char Siew Pau. Taste good too.

Siu Long Bau. This one taste so so. Dragon-i make much better siu long bau. Hehe. After all this dish is from Shanghai right, why did I eat it at HK?? Hehe...

Char Siew Sou (Char Siew pastry).

HK Chee Cheung Fun. I purposely ordered this as I saw the uncle sitting at the next table ate it. What I saw is the Chee Cheung Fun is stuff with many ingredients. But the one I ordered had nothing inside, so it taste very plain. Yea. I ordered the wrong things. There are a few types of them. But it's quite special as this chee cheung fun is being fried before served.

At HK, the sauce for the chee cheung fun is peanut butter sauce and another sweet sauce (which I called tim cheung in cantonese). Quite a good combination too.

Har Kau. Big prawns can be found inside. Not only one prawns but a few.

Total bill is HKD 120++.

Fun Tea Garden previously was known as Dynamic Cafe. Dynamic Cafe was previously located at around 'Xia Bui' market. Dynamic Cafe was renamed to Fun Tea Garden and moved to opposite of Perangin Mall Pizza Hut which is at Jalan Dr. Lim Chwee Leong. It can be easily located.

This shop is located along main road, but don't worry that you can't get a parking as the shop owner co-operate with a parking site onwer to provide parking for Fun Tea Garden customers with only RM1 as parking fees. The parking is just slightly futher away down the road. There's a 'Car Park' banner displayed, so don't think you'll miss it.

Char Siew Pau - The filling is very tasty. Yummy.

Egg Tart - the pastry is not fluffy enough but the egg is tasty as it's not too sweet.

Century Egg porridge - my favourite. See, there are so much deep fried spring roll skins on top of the porridge. Such a generous serving. This porridge is very tasty. Very soft texture and the taste is just like that you can find at home. Lots of ingredients are used to cook this porridge, I guess. Shredded chicken, dried mussel and century egg can be found in the porridge.

Lo Mai Kai - Taste pretty nice but the glutinous rice is slighty uncooked.

Fried raddish cake - Skin is thin and very crispy. Inside is soft and there are some meats inside the raddish cake. Taste good.

Fried fishball - one of my favourite dim sum at any dim sum restaurant This one is quite chewy. I believe it's hand made.

Siu Mai Wong - This is highly recommended by one of the worker. It's the king of Siu Mai. Mm... for both of us the taste is similar to normal siu mai. mm... our taste bud problem? ? The difference that we found is in this siu mai king there are some vege.

Siu Mai - nothing much to fuss about. Big chunks of water chestnut can be found in this. Just good. ;)

More dim sum pictures:

Overall, the dim sum is satisfying. Total charges is RM 18.40. Quite reasonable for me.

Other than dim sum, this restaurant serve also char hor fun and other fried noodles.

p/s: Argh...! I forgot to print the voucher in Criz Lai's blog to entitle a 10% discount. What a waste.