Imperial City restaurant (Tai Thong) - Cheras Plaza

Happy Chinese New Year guys, I know it is a little bit early to wish but with the Chinese New Year decoration covering all the shopping complex therefore I cannot stop myself in wishing you all.

Alright, last few days ago, some of my hometown friends decided to gather together within Kuala Lumpur area, treat it as a reunion dinner for this coming festival. So some of us recommended the Lo Yee Sang event as our reunion dinner, we are having our reunion dinner is held in Tai Thong.

The front entrance of the restaurant

For those who do not know what Lo Yee Sang event is, you may check out the web definition, it is known as “Prosperity toss” event. A little bit information about Yee Sang I found on the web stated that Yee Sang is a traditional dish among Cantonese and Teochews who lives in Canton, it is served during the 7^th day of Chinese New Year or as known as “Ren ri” (People’s birthday), it came from the Chinese history and mythology where the goddess named “Nuwa” created human from mud on the 7^th day in the first month of the year.

People will voice out auspicious phrases while tossing the ingredients to indicate a good year ahead, it may looks like we are playing with our food though. As for Yee Sang’s origin, of course it is from China but Yee Sang gained such popularity because of the “Four Heavenly Kings” chefs from Dragon phoenix restaurant in Singapore. They made Yee Sang more easy and acceptable for most restaurants giving some improvements such as taste and the food presentation. For more information you can view this video. <link>

Alright back to the food we had, Tai Thong restaurant had made it a package when we booked earlier, for a table for 6 pax for RM488++ we got ourselves:

一马當先(popular set)

雪梨三文魚撈生 – Prosperity salmon and snow pear Yee Sang

紅燒乾貝蟹肉翅 – Braised shark’s fin soup with conpoy and crab meat

港式化口蝦餅伴靚燒雞 – Roast chicken with prawn cracker hong kong style

蒜油金菇云耳蒸八丁鱼 – Steamed patin with “Wan Yee” fungus and enoki mushroom

纳坡里盐焗草虾 – Pan-seared tiger prawns with fragrant spice

发菜蚝豉双菇豆根蔬 – Braised dried oysters with “Fatt Choy”, mushrooms, wheat gluten and vegetables

香港腊味扣炒饭 – Fried glutinous rice with assorted waxed meat

西米蜜瓜香露 – Chilled honey dew melon with sago pearls

莲蓉酥窝饼 – Steamed “Nian Gao” with shredded coconut and lotus paste pancake

We waited for the food while updating our life event just like any other hometown friends gathering.

The environment of the restaurant has a Chinese themed elements around it, you can see tanglung hanging, main color is red and the patterns on the wall, etc.

After 15 minutes, our Yee Sang is served!

雪梨三文魚撈生 – Prosperity salmon and snow pear Yee Sang

With all the seasoning and ingredient is added by the waitress, we prepared our chopsticks and position ourselves for the “food rising”. Get set, ready, and here we go!

HUAT AH!!!

As usual, the Yee Sang has the sour taste with some slight sweet from the snow pear.

Not for long the first dish is served

紅燒乾貝蟹肉翅 – Braised shark’s fin soup with conpoy and crab meat

I know and I heard that having shark fin will cause the shark to become an endangered animal and I promise myself I will try to avoid having shark fin soup during non-festival day. Because it is included in the food package and I did not look and ask whether it can be change, so I do felt guilty about this.

Move on to the second dish

港式化口蝦餅伴靚燒雞 – Roast chicken with prawn cracker hong kong style

This is one of the best dish among all, I particularly love its crispy skin, the crispy skin will melt once you place in your mouth and touches your tongue then you will begin to taste the delicious taste of a roasted chicken. The meat is quit hard to tear though but the skin had it cover, great job.

Next the third dish

蒜油金菇云耳蒸八丁鱼 – Steamed patin with “Wan Yee” fungus and enoki mushroom

I did not know what is a patin fish, all I knew was the meat of the fish is very less, maybe that is its kind I guess, anyway the soy sauce mixture of the dish is tempting and you can just eat with plain rice with it, the enoki mushroom is always best to eat, especially with the sauce.

Next dish will be the prawn

纳坡里盐焗草虾 – Pan-seared tiger prawns with fragrant spice

As the named stated, fragrant spice and salt cooked style, the prawn will taste a little bit salty at first then spicy for a moment then slight sweet at the end due to the prawns are salted with a type of grass.

Next dish is the oyster dish

发菜蚝豉双菇豆根蔬 – Braised dried oysters with “Fatt Choy”, mushrooms, wheat gluten and vegetables

For this dish I like the sauce, well of course the oyster is nice too and so is the mushroom, but the sauce made all these ingredients even nicer. The smoothing texture plus the chewy oyster meat, and the smell of the mushroom hmm… oh and the broccoli is soft for your mouth.

Next, the dish we all fear after so many dish….

香港腊味扣炒饭 – Fried glutinous rice with assorted waxed meat

Yes, it is rice, most of us are actually stop eating the rice only, 2 persons contributed the most, of course one of them is me, not wanting to waste food is hard, and it took us very long to finish the rice.

Next is the desserts

西米蜜瓜香露 – Chilled honey dew melon with sago pearls

莲蓉酥窝饼 – Steamed “Nian Gao” with shredded coconut and lotus paste pancake

I personally like the honey dew one, because it is sweet and the sago pearl made the texture of the dessert more mouth smoothing and delicious, the other one which is the pancake does not really tempt me in having a second bite, maybe because I already feeling extreme full and only accept liquid form food, we cannot finish the last dish and we asked to be pack and taken away for one of our friend.

I have a great time with my friends during that night, we laugh at the same old jokes when we were studying in secondary school, time passed very fast, the next thing you know it’s another Christmas and then another year’s Chinese New Year. Nevertheless, I hereby wishing you all a Chinese New Year with both wealth and health!!

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