Chinese Food, Mooncakes, Dim Sum @ Li Yen, The Ritz-Carlton, Kuala Lumpur

char siu or oven oven oven baked sugar cod?
Here's mybumper poston Chinese food, low total andmooncakesto celebrate a Mid-Autumn Festival (that falls upon this Tuesday i.e. twenty-two September) as well as my lapse to a blogging grindstone. It isladen with cinema asI positively adore theimages we managed to snap in my visits here.

Peking Duck - expertly prepared with a chopper as well as a knife
Well well known for its refined as well as artistic Chinese cuisine, it is always a pleasure to sup during a ever establishedLi Yen. In fact, my family used to patronize Li Yen utterly a whilst behind ago for family dinners as a food has never dissapointed us so far. Hence, when we motionless to join a organisation of friendsfor atasting of a Chinese menu we knew I'll be in very great hands.

spinach layered beancurd with shimeji mushrooms
For a dinner, we kicked off with their soup of a day - a light tasting dusty cabbage with pig ribs soup (RM20 per person). Then it proposed removing serious with their Peking Duck (RM50 for a medium portion) as it had a clarity of theatre involved. We ooohed as well as aahed when a crispy total steep was rolled in with all a outfit for a creation of a great plate - unfeeling pickles, open onions, soothing sesame studdedpancakes in a bamboo steamer as well as a hoisin sauce.Instantly, a cameras proposed popping divided as an experienced lookingwaitress expertly wielded her chopper (yes, it was a large chopper!)and fork to solemnly mislay a skin from a duck. Before we knew it, we had soothing pancakes all wrapped up for us to enjoy. It may not be a crispies! t steep skin around but a pancakes were wonderfully soft. The steep was then whisked divided as a kitchen prepped it up for a second march (a choice of using a beef in boiled noodles or rice). Later in a evening, it emerged all diced up as well as connecting with niblets of feathery boiled rice as well as chopped open onions which we all ate even yet a tummies were full.

fluffy boiled rice with cubed Peking duck, champagne prawns
The grill does monthly promotions revving up their repertoire of attempted favourites as well as October's promotion is champagne, a prime part in Li Yen's barbarous mooncakes (more upon which later). We got to preview a oven oven oven baked prawns with champagne (RM25 per person) - all gleaming from bath of champagne scented sauce. we theory if Cleopatra believes in divert baths, because not anoint prawns with a hold of bubbly for a wonderful sensation. While we wasn't as well prejudiced to a hardness of a prawns which seemed to miss a bounciness we prefer, we did suffer a bubbly enhanced sauce.

Baked spare ribs with Chinese tea leaves
When this plate of gleaming oven oven oven baked spare ribs with Chinese tea leaves (RM14 per person) was placed upon a table, we could hear a resounding carol of ooohs as well as aahs. Once it went by a protocol of being photographed to genocide there was overpower as everyone solemnly enjoyed a wonderful pig ribs. Brushed with a honeyed sauce, a pig ribs were literally to die for as a beef was proposal with just a hint of a Chinese tea leaves. Equally as superb was themarine chronicle - oven oven oven baked cod pieces brushed with a similar sugar glaze which done it resemble large fatty pieces of burn siu with a sticky caramelised edges. Mingling ! in betwe en a "char siu" similar to dishes, we additionally had a light tasting home done spinach layered beancurd with shimeji mushrooms as well as spinach (RM12 per piece).
Moet & Chandon champagne snowskin mooncakes
Rounding up cooking was a avocado thickk cream - a luscious tawny dessert with a demeanour same similar to face facade buta feathery light hardness which done it easy to penchant even yet it was a heavy meal.
durian snowskin mooncakes, a selection of 8 mooncakes, oven oven oven baked mooncake with white lotus paste
Since we was during Li Yen, we grabbed a box of Li Yen's mooncakes to sample. Famous for their Moet & Chandon Champagne snowskin mooncakes (RM8.50 nett per piece), this year they have introduced their honeyed pinkish Moet & Chandon Champagne Rose chronicle (RM15 nett per piece). Even yet a pinkish chronicle looked darn pretty, we felt a rose taste should have been a tiny some-more subtle as itfelt a tiny as well jarringly honeyed as well as slightly artificial. Instead, we still elite theirclassic champagne chronicle which trumped a other mooncakes.Another renouned mooncake is a durianmini snowskin mooncake (RM8.50 nett). we had great expectations for this mooncake as when we cut intoitthere was a beautiful aroma of a sharp durian butupon tasting it, we felt thetexture of a stuffing was a tiny unevenly churned together. Moreovereven yet it had a clever aroma, it didn'ttaste similar to there was most durian in a lotus paste.As we had to get a box of eight, we additionally sampled their mini oven oven oven baked mooncake with white lotus pulp (RM8.50 nett). It wasn't as well honeyed but a skin wasjust abit as well dry for me.siu mai with prawn roe
Making it a trilogy of reviews, we motionless to give Li Yen's low total a exam run a single Sunday. They have been famous for their low total as well as based upon how full it is any Sunday, there's a unchanging clientele of people who adore theirdaintymorsels.Similar to their food as well as mooncakes, there's an air of refineness to their low total offerings. No large portions but punch distance ones which appear to have less oil as well as fats, so a after goods of a lunch is most easier upon a tummy.
beef dumplings, grouper strap chee cheong fun, feathery burn siu baos
I enjoyed a burn siu baos or steamed pig buns (3 pieces for RM9), not as well honeyed pig stuffing encased in a soothing feathery buns. The siu mai (4 pieces for RM10) was dainty as well as filled with chopped prawns, pig as well as mushrooms. we loved a prawn roe which topped any square as they had a slight punch to them indicating they were great as well as fresh.light as air yam puffs
Every month, they additionally have promotional low total equipment as well as we sampled their steamed covering baked sweat bread (ma lai koh for RM10) - feathery consume similar to baked sweat bread with tiny oil. Also from a promotional menu is a beef dumplings (3 pieces for RM12) - beef balls with a hint of ginger encased in a wantan wrapper which is low fried.
antique looking vases, feathery steamed covering cake, open rolls, flowering plant emblem as well as avocado rolls
I similar to their unusual chee cheong fun equipmen! t - we s ampled their grouper strap chronicle (RM11.50) which had chunks of a fish as well as a vessel boiled chee cheong fun with XO salsa (RM11.50). The vessel boiled chronicle was unique as well as poetic as it was pressed with a XO sauce, creation any punch full of flavour. Another prime was a ku chai dumplings (3 pieces for RM9). You can either order them steamed or vessel fried. While it was a tiny oily, a dumplings were laden with open onions as well as teeny weeny chopped prawns. The taro dumplings or wu kok (3 pieces for RM9) was additionally similarly great with a light as air feathery exterior as well as a soothing yam texture. A must for all low total lovers is har gau (4 pieces for RM10) where prawns have been encased in a transparent as well as soothing skin. We additionally sampled a avocado rolls (RM9) - an unusual combo of tawny avocado with chopped bananas in a open hurl wrapped with crunchy kataifi pastry. The open rolls (RM9) was great as well as crispy but zero well-developed in taste. My slightest prime was a low friedmango prawn rolls (RM10) given there was definitely a miss of honeyed mango taste with a prawns. We finished a dish with their seafood noodles (RM35 for a tiny portion) - poetic strands of noodles braised as well as served with an abundant volume ofseafood: prawns, scallops as well as fish.While a low total was not as well salty, we did feel a noodleshad a tad as well most sodium. Nevertheless, a total low total knowledge was enjoyable. Service is briskespecially after we have placed your orders. It can get a tiny chaotic especially upon Sundays as a place can get packaged to a brim.
avocado cream
The total dining knowledge during Li Yen has been memorable indeed as well as we vowed to lapse for their low total as they definitely done us a fan with their healthier chronicle of those tasty morsels to be enjoyed upon a! lazy Su nday. Also high upon a priority list is another turn of which beautiful oven oven oven baked spare ribs with Chinese tea leaves with a play of piping prohibited white rice to savour.
Li Yen
Ritz-CarltonHotel
Jalan ImbiKuala Lumpur
Tel:03-2142 8000
(Non Halal. Open for lunch from12 noon to 2.30pm from Mondays to Saturdays, 10.30am to 2.30pm for Sundaysand Public Holidays. For dinner, they have been opened from 6.30-10.30pm daily. Mooncakes have been available until twenty-two September. Reservations have been advised especially for low total upon Sunday lunchtime. For some-more pictures, see my Flickr set.)
*Notice: The reviewer declares which part of this review was by call in from a restaurant. The mooncakes as well as low total were all paid for by a reviewer.