Dim sum! Dim sum! Dim sum!

What do Malaysians enjoy beside nasi lemak for breakfast? Why, dim sum of course!

Dim Sum is a Cantonese phrase (點心), literally "touch the heart" (order to your heart's content) but meaning "morsel/snack". It may be derived from yat dim sum yi (一點心意), meaning "a little token". Though the English word "dim sum" refers to the Cantonese variety, the idea of a wide variety of small dishes for lunch also holds for other regions of China.

- source: Wikipedia

So seeing that it was a holiday for me today, I decided to haul ass over to Damansara Palace at Kota Damansara to have breakfast.

The fact is that I've passed by the place many many times in the past but I never bothered to venture inside. On the recommendation of Brother Hing I went there with him and Wei Siong a couple of weeks back and it was good enough to warrant a second visit.

As usual, the pictures must come first!

Welcome to Damansara (Palace)!

And it's...CLOSED?!!

There's a funny story about the closed sign...me and my mum arrived at 10.40 a.m. and we saw that it was 'closed'. Naturally this struck us as strange because the business hours plainly stated there was 10.30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

So I called up the restaurant and was told that they were already open for business. Guess some waiter forgot to flip the sign around. =P

Fried peanuts to start your appetite going!

Breakfast for two, yes that's everything!

Yam puffs on the right, prawn rolls on the left

Yam roll exposed!

And of course, every dim sum meal must have har gau (shrimp dumplings)

Thin skin + juicy prawn = superb har gau!

Siew mai (er...mini pork dumplings?)

Just the right amount of meat and fat

All in all, the entire breakfast consisted of 2 plates each of siew mai, har gau, fishball, siew loong pau and one plate each of yam puffs, deep fried prawn rolls and steamed prawn rolls costs me a total of RM45.xx.

And that's with Chinese tea for two, plus the appetizers. But no towels though. Tax is at the usual 5% and 10%. The dim sum actually costs RM2.98 per plate.

What more can I say? The dim sum is fresh, they are generous with the serving amounts and the service is top notch (it's a high class Chinese restaurant after all). The drawback is that they do not have as much variety compared to the old school dim sum places. So here's a rating of 8/10 for it!

Direction time! If you're headed towards Ikea from Subang via LDP you'll notice a tunnel (Surian Tunnel) once you've turned off from the LDP (with Ikea visible on your right). Just go into the tunnel and continue straight on until you come to the second set of traffic lights (Damansara Palace should be visible on your right). Turn right at the traffic lights and keep to your left until you come to an entrance. Turn in and go straight all the way (it's a one way street and it's one big loop around the whole complex) until you come to the front of Damansara Palace.

Eat, be merry and grow fat! - Courtesy of Lawrence