Hey everyone how are you all been doing with your week? This
week my friend and I decided to go for spicy food from Hunan also known as
Xiang cuisine (湘菜),
the shop we are about to enter is 湖南湘菜馆 (Hunan from the Xiang cuisine),
Xiang river is one of the region of Hunan, besides this region there are others
such as Dongting Lake and western Hunan. Hunan cuisine is one of the Eight
great traditions of Chinese cuisine, well known of its spicy hot flavor with
cooking style of frying, smoking and pot-roasting. Behold what’s coming, we
will be opening our mouth frequently due to the heat and spice and we cannot
help but to continue to eat!
Enter the restaurant and it was just like any normal above
average Chinese restaurant. It was quite empty but that was around 7.00PM to 7.30PM
if I remember it correctly, so it is normal to have less customer at this time.
We ordered the following dishes:
- 平锅北京包菜 (RM 30/ RM22/ RM15) – Stir Fried “Beijing” Cabbage
- 农家小炒肉 (RM30/ RM25/ RM18) – “Hunan” Farmer Style Fried Pork
- 湖南石锅鸡 (RMRM50 / RM40/ RM30) – Chef Special Fried Chicken On Sizzling Stone Plate
As you can see there are 3 prices those are for the size,
large, medium and small respectively. We order all 3 of the dishes in small
sizes. After we ordered, I looked around and I saw there is a picture of three
girls with their traditional cloths and Chinese instruments, then I noticed
besides the photo frame there are these decorations, yes chilies decorations.
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| Is like telling you to brace yourself for this spicy hot cuisine |
It is like telling customers that this is the place where
you will experience lots of chili peppers, garlic and shallots, just search
some basic information about Hunan cuisine, Hunan cuisine is best known for dry
hot or purely hot. Their dishes will tend to be oilier compared to also one of
the famous spicy food genre, the Sichuan cuisine in which often being discussed
about, most noticeably their ‘mala’ which literally mean hot and numbing.
So after our long wait our rice have been served, I
purposely took the photo of the rice is because I was attracted by their flat rice
bowl instead of the inner curve side. Nothing special here, they have their own
custom tissue packaging. The dishes is served after the rice is placed after 10
minutes:
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| Seriously this is extremely hot |
Chef Special Fried Chicken on Sizzling Stone Plate, despite its
hot red color gravy and the heat from sizzling stone that makes the popping
bubble dance, I am pretty sure I will be needing to drink a lot of Chinese tea
to cool down my body, it’s like a volcano down there. I tried the gravy part
for start, it is really spicy, and you might need to add some rice to neutral
down the heat. The chicken is fine, the meat when bite will not feel like it
had been dipped in the gravy for a long time and become lose in tender, it was
nice and tight to bite, I like it. The aroma from the scallion matches the
gravy spice is the ultimate combination for a good guilty pleasure moment, my
lips are beginning to feel the effect of too much spice, my friend said my lips
is getting red and a little swollen, well in a good way that is. You guys
should try it.
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| Very nice pork aroma with cabbage |
Next thing up it will be the Stir Fried “Beijing” Cabbage,
the is one of their customer preferable dishes, I can see why after my first
attempt, the reason it is so nice in taste is because the taste of the pork and
the pork’s oil mixed with the freshness of the cabbage and the best thing is
the taste will stay there for a while after you swallow. I should have try this
dish first because the last dish had influenced my taste bud with its hot
spice. I guessed they cook the pork and the cabbage separately then fry it
together to let the essence mix in harmony under the wok, thumb ups for the
chef.
The last one is the “Hunan” Farmer Style Fried Pork, this is
just normal for us if compare to the other 2 dishes I just mentioned, the pork
was not that strong in taste in this dish, even we stir a little bit to let the
pork oil spread evenly, this dish has below average level of spiciness, the
green color ingredient is the green chilies by the way. This is my first time
to try this restaurant, my friend on the other hand is not, and he commented
that this dish is nicer when he tried last time, so bad luck for me I guess.
So that is, I was impress with this restaurant’s cooking
style, it was my first experience to taste such spicy Hunan cuisine beside of
Sichuan cuisine, when we are almost done with our dinner, the restaurant is
beginning to fill with crowd of people, look like a good place to have good
food to me, so you guys should give it a try.
Address
No. 2, Jalan Kuchai Maju 6,
Off Jalan Kuchai Lama,
58200 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: +603-7987 9318
Email: dehunan@streamyx.com
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