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Happy Christmas and New Year to everyone! Time sure flies and its Christmas again… same as last year, we had a Xmas lunch at Tim’s place. The food were great, stuffing myself with turkey and ham (somehow everyone got greddy, took the bigger piece of ham and passing it to me when they can’t finish! *growing*).

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We had goodies like roast turkey with cranberry sauce, ham (braised in apple juice before roasting), roast potato (with goose fats) and many more goodies. Another yummy is the brandy butter from UK with I took with pudding and the xmas cake… it was really good.

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Best part was of course opening xmas present… I had a good time there with a motivation of getting back to cycling since I am really growing nowadays!

Lastly, merry xmas and best wishes for the new year for everyone, may good health and happiness shower you in 2009 .

The DongZhi are said to be the most important event in the Chinese calendar as my mum always said DongZhi is more important than Chinese New Year. My sis asked me what do we called DongZhi in Chinese and that is a pretty good question, all I could think of is… Winter Celebration? So, I google-d a little and found out that its known the marking of winter solstice.

From Wikipedia: In China, Dongzhi was originally celebrated as an end-of-harvest festival. Today, it is observed with a family reunion over the long night, when pink and white tangyuan are eaten in sweet broth to symbolise family unity and prosperity.

Anyhow, we gathered for Dongzhi last weekend and my parents prepared a 9 dishes course for us to feast on plus my favourite tangyuan as well.

Roast Duck

Braised Duck

Salted Chicken

Fried Vegetable

Sweet Sour Fish

Roast Pork

Guiness Ribs

Fried Oats Prawns

…and a lotus root and peanut soup to compliment the above. For many family nowadays, they longer go to make their own tangyuan and buy from supermarket (those with fillings). But I had to say… my favourite is still good old traditional tangyuan with sweet ginger soup .

This is a cosy and airconditioned dim sum place in Kota Kemuning, the food are quite decent and fresh here. I find it a bit pricey or have prices of food have really went up so much?

Anyway… I ordered the siew mai at RM3.30 per plate, prawns dumping (har kao) at RM3.90, loh mai kai (glutinous rice) at RM3.30, a tray of 3 pork buns (char siew pau) at RM4.20, wu kok (yam dumpling) at RM3.00 and fried carrot cake at RM 3.90 per plate.

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The siew mai and har kao was ok, quite fresh, nice and the prawns are good. Fried carrot cake is quite a big plate with a lot of topping. Loh mai kai have a lot of filings too, chicken plus mushroom. The wu kok is so so, maybe nicer if its still hot. Pork bun have a nice cooking wine aroma but taste wise is normal.

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We paid a total of RM24.60 for 2 person plus drinks with 2 unfinished char siew pau to take home . Decent place to have dim sum and clean environment but a bit pricey.

Dim Sum @ Little Master Kitchen
32G Jalan Anggerik Vanilla R31/R Kota Kemuning, 40450 Shah Alam.
GPS: N3 00.281 E101 32.247