Indulge in Dynasty Restaurant’s (Non-Halal) Lunar New Year Festive Menus that feature the finest flavours of Cantonese cuisine from 2 February to 5 March 2015. Focusing on the use of traditional ingredients while emphasizing on light and fresh flavours for healthy feasting with family and friends, Executive Sous Chef Kok Chee Kin has created three (3) festive set menus namely Happiness Set, Fortune Set and Longevity Set priced at RM1388++, RM1638++ and RM2288++ respectively for groups of ten (10) persons.
However, if you are dining with a smaller group, Chef Kin has also created a set menu for 2 persons priced at RM388++ and for 6 persons priced at RM808++. These menus come with yee sang for diners to toss for good luck and fortune. For a lavish meal, there’s the Prosperity Treasure Pot set menus for 5 persons.
As for Yee Sang, Dynasty offers 6 types – Salmon, Fruity Fiesta, “Fu Kwei” abalone, Lobster & Salmon, Abalone & Salmon and Hokkaido Scallop. No CNY meal would be quite complete without the tossing of Yee Sang even if you are going for a vegetarian one like Fruity Fiesta! Available in “half serving” and “full serving”, takeaway Yee Sang can also be arranged for home reunion dinners and special get-togethers. The Yee Sang is priced from RM88++ to RM238++.
Chef Kin has specially created a selection of steamed and deep-fried Dim Sum for this festive season, available daily for lunch. There’s Fatt Choy with Bean Curd, Dried Oyster with Pork Meat Dumpling, Shell Abalone with Fatt Choy Seafood Dumpling, Szechuan Fatt Choy Dumpling, Golden Bean Curd Roll, Wok Seared Chicken Cake, Crispy Beard Prawn Roll and several more.
During the sampling, we tried so many dishes that I was maxed out by the time dessert was served. I wish I had room in my stomach for more but there’s a limit to what I can take in. The head/heart was willing but the stomach wasn’t.
The Fruity Fiesta Yee Sang is so colorful and pretty! I was just staring at this plate, there are strawberries, blueberries, cherries, mangoes, honeydew and it’s so different from the traditional Yee Sang where plum sauce is poured. This one is sweet but not too sweet. Thoroughly enjoyable especially with the crunchy crackers which I can never get enough of. I admit I am a glutton extraordinaire when it comes to Yee Sang. I’m like “Move out of the way. I am coming in for another serving!”
The Fortune Combination Platter comes with a basket of vegetables which includes my favourite vegetable, asparagus and scallops. There’s also 2 types of deep fried delicacies, the one that looks like a spring roll is genius as it has banana in it and the other deep fried roll has seafood in it. The “money bags” are a must-have as they symbolize prosperity.
A must-have dish for all reunion dinners (I had this at every family reunion dinner when I was growing up) is the Fatt Choy with Whole Dried Scallop and Garlic, Chef Kin’s version is special as it has roast pork in it, yummy! Sauce is superb!
One of my most favourite dishes from this lunch was the Sun-dried Scallop, Freshly Peeled Crabmeat and Dried Seafood Broth. So good that I could have done with a second bowl. Yummy doesn’t even begin to describe how marvelous this broth is. There’s also fish maw in this broth, all expensive ingredients.
Prosperity Treasure Pot or “Poon Choi” Or “Big Bowl Feast” might be all a small family needs for their reunion dinner as there are so many wonderful ingredients in it. It’s quite the “in” thing for Chinese restaurants to sell these as takeaways as families don’t have to spend much time slaving over the stove when they have this. Chef Kin’s version has whole sun-dried scallop, fish maw, stuffed dried oyster, fresh scallop, flower mushroom, fu kwei abalone, farm chicken, roasted duck, sea cucumber, money bag, roasted pork, vegetables, tiger prawns, fish stomach and coral clam. How’s that for more than enough ingredients? Truly a Treasure Pot that will ensure one has enough in their bank account and stomach for the new year.
This Roasted Crispy Farm Chicken is perfection! So crispy that I couldn’t help myself, I was already very full by this stage but just had to go for a few pieces. I was asking where the prawn crackers were because a lot of restaurants serve this with prawn crackers. Okay, maybe that is rather old school and we have to move with the times.
Chef Kin personally carved up the fish for our table, now that’s great service! Loved the generous amount of ginger on the fish as it added the “zing” to this dish. Could taste how fresh the fish was, as if it’d just been caught that morning.
Normally I don’t take much glutinous rice at wedding dinners, this dish always comes before the dessert. I avoid taking too much because often, the rice is too oily or at times, dry but at Dynasty, the glutinous rice with wax meat and abalone is a luxurious dish and I could take more than a bowl because it didn’t make me feel ill from too much oil. I am not a fan of wax meat but having abalone on the rice made this a dish I would order for myself.
Shanghai Pancakes are a staple at wedding dinners. I love them thanks to the crispy flaky pastry and slightly sweet bean paste filling.
How cute are the goldfish filled with red bean paste! A definite must-have for Chinese New Year is “nin ko” or New Year Prosperity Pudding. My family used to have it steamed and dipped in coconut like this or deep fried with egg. Never mind the kids, adults will also be whipping out their phones to take photos of this “fishy” dessert known as “Dynasty Fortune Pastries.”
Double boiled “lok mei” with aloe vera and glutinous dumpling filled with black sesame paste. “Lok mei’ is known as Six Combination Soup and this is something I drank a lot of growing up, hence it is one of my favourite soups. It’s sweet enough to be a dessert and it includes herbs such as dried longan flesh, dried lotus seeds and lily bulbs. You can now purchase pre-packaged “lok mei” at supermarkets and Chinese medicine shops, all you need to do is add the ingredients to water in a slow cooker.
“Tau foo fah” or soymilk custard isn’t part of the CNY menu but it’s on Dynasty’s a la carte menu. This one comes with aloe vera and longan. If you prefer it without, just inform them when you order. Comes with a ginger syrup.
One is spoilt for choice when it comes to a Lunar New Year Feast At Dynasty Restaurant
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