Michelin-star cuisine at Gu Yue Tien

In undiluted balance a Mo Mo Duck Roll. KUALA LUMPUR, Sept twenty-five Sweet, tainted as well as tart all came together perfectly in a Mo Mo Duck Roll in a recent dinner during Gu Yue Tien. A cut of smoked duck, a sliver of mango, crispy beancurd skin as well as pickled cucumber sat upon a dense pancake dirty with a honeyed sauce. we revelled in a textures as well as varying flavours, which included a hold of wasabi.It set a tone of value for what was to follow. we have regularly suspicion which Gu Yue Tien, helmed by owner/chef Frankie Woo, deserves a Michelin star for a extreme creativity he brings to a art of Chinese cuisine, as well as a way his thoughts as well as taste work in synchronicity. For instance, how would we know which pieces of jackfruit as well as strawberry would complement a Panfried Foie Gras upon Scallop as well as Prawn Paste in Orange Honey Sauce?Pushing a bounds Panfried Foie Gras upon Scallop as well as Prawn Paste with Orange as well as Honey Sauce.But here was this luscious foie gras sitting upon a scallop as well as prawn paste, drizzled with an orange as well as honey salsa as well as surfaced with a little ripened offspring were such a gorgeous match. Rich bursts from a foie gras, afterwards a mellow, honeyed scallop as well as prawn, as well as lastly a fruit, with a nangka entrance by subtly.The wows over this dish continued with a Pigs Stomach Soup which came next. This was a good old-fashioned soup, with a aroma as well as punch of pepper, with all a flavours of a good stock though without powerful a senses. It was such a yummy soup which we wish to lick your lips during a finish of it.The Salt Baked Iberico Pork Ribs were brought to a table to be cut as well as served. The ribs were as good as they looked: one punch as well as we get a swoosh of fat in your mouth; tear du! ring a b eef as well as we get a salt upon your tongue. The crispy edges, a proposal pork all send we melting with delight. A frail salad cuts a guilt.There was a tasty sniff as a Fried Egg Noodles with XO salsa were served. These sharp noodles boiled with black mushrooms, fat beansprouts, open onion as well as egg were generously surfaced with crispy patches of dried scallop. The wok hei was obvious, releasing all a lovely aromas.The Chilled Avocado as well as Mango Cream Yin Yang style was a refreshingly well-spoken ending to an overwhelming meal.Frankie had picked a items for a 4 of us from a couple of set menus. The Mo Mo Duck Roll is RM12, Panfried Foie Gras upon Scallop as well as Prawn Paste RM36, Pigs Stomach Soup RM12, a Iberico Pork Ribs RM105 for 700g, a Avocado as well as Mango Cream RM12.Fried Radish Cake with Cockles dimsum with a differenceA week later we was behind during Gu Yue Tien: who can get tired of a food, when a chef keeps pulling a bounds as well as regularly has tasty surprises for you? This time it was lunch. We proposed with dimsum, including a outstanding boiled char siu pow as well as a boiled radish baked sweat bread with cockles (so good!).A sharp Apple Salad with Giant Clam as well as a Smoked Bacon Salad which had yummy slices of bacon a chef had smoked himself followed.The Cuttlefish with Cheese patties had cheddar inside which oozed out when we cut it in two. You wouldnt have guessed, though this was a winning combination: well-spoken salt-tinged cheese with smooth, honeyed sotong.The Wok-fried Beef with Mushroom Reduction garnished with Tempura Spinach had a wasabi lift. The beef was so light as well as tender.Oven-baked Squid Stuffed with Prawn Roe as well as Sea Urchin tasty to a last biteThe Oven-baked Squid stuffed with Prawn Roe as well as Sea Urchin was so surprising though ! scrumpti ous. It had been marinated, afterwards placed under a salamander. Intense flavours emanated from a juicy filling when a squid was sliced. The shrimp aroma (from a roe) was roughly like belacan, with a slight sour edge from sea urchin. Its kam kam fu fu (golden mellow as well as bitter), pronounced Frankie. The squid was tender, with a puck bite. It was accompanied with a limey chilli dip. We asked for mantou to mop up each bit of a tasty liquid stuffing.The same mantou came in accessible for a Braised Pork Knuckle with Mui Choy upon Pumpkin Puree. Its a joint of a knuckle which is very springy to a bite. we desired a flavours of a mui choy or dark preserved vegetables which had soaked in to a knuckle, as well as a tawny pumpkin puree added a sweet, polished hold to it. We used a mantou to mop up this sauce.Gu Yue Tien is located during Lot 5A, Chulan Square, Jalan Raja Chulan, 50200 Kuala Lumpur, Tel: 03-2148 0808.

Staple Japanese. Benkay, Hotel Nikko, Jalan Ampang, KL.

(no pig served)

Angry seeking lobster in a tank during Benkay. Fresh lobster Teppanyaki is accessible from their a la carte menu.

My quest for a great grill that serves great Japanese Food contend me trotting off to Benkay. The aberrant proliferation of Japanese Restaurants in KL like a great Catholic that does not believe in family planning has led to a abominable condition where there is an over abundance of restaurants with really small quality. Some of a Japanese Restaurants have been owned by large chains that contribute to a blurring of boundaries between a restaurants, all of that serves to attempt some form of alloy food. Food that attempts to stroke as well most senses during one go as well as ends up miserably upon a road to gastronomic perdition. The menu is mostly frightfully overwrought with misconceived notions of what Fusion Japanese cuisine should be as well as churns out something quite identical to Gozilla using amok in New York, clueless as well as working with rage, that is flattering tighten to what we feel as well after a bad Japanese meal. And we have not even started to speak about Kaiseki yet.

Salad

The interior of Benkay is organic as well as elementary with lots of wood formed furniture as well as bright windows. Unfortunately a Restaurant attracts a new multiply of lunch crowd diners whose idea of a civil conversation involves shouting across a table as well as into their mobile phones. Be prepared for an auditory attack whilst dining here.

California Roll

The elementary as well as organic taste is reflected in their lunch menu, that is devoid of any preten! sions as well. Their salad was restrained, only pieces of fresh vegetable as well as corn showered with Shoyu Vinaigrette. The California palm hurl that came with my set was mercifully devoid of a horrible Kewpie Mayonnaise that we mostly complain about. The Sunomono showed as well most restraint with a old wine as well as was easily sweet, a minor censure that has zero to do with a skill of a chef, though personal taste.

Sunomono

The Chawan Mushi was ideally smooth as well as surfaced with Ginko besides a usual Mushroom. we systematic a Udon Set, as well as was served with beautifully textured Udon noodles in a Konbu formed soup with a usual condiments of kakiage, wakame as well as scallions. There is something about comfortable as well as polished done broth as well as a great dining companion that acts as a calming cure-all for dreaming souls. The Udon worked it's sorcery during lunch.

Sushi

My Dining companion had a Sliced Beef as well as Vegetable hot pot set, that was additionally similar, though came but a Hand Rolled Sushi that was substituted with rice.

Sliced Beef as well as Vege Hot Pot

Actually. Mondays have been not a great day to visit Japanese Restaurants in KL. Fishes have been replenished upon Tuesdays as well as Fridays. We cautiously avoided a Sashimi Fish Nigiris as well as fell behind upon to Tako as well as Ebi Sushi that only confirmed a suspicion. The mutation was slightly off, only squirmingly so, though not to a point of being offensive.

Chawan Mushi

Their choices for dessert is rather limited. We had both a Green Tea as well as Black Sesame ice thickk cream that seems to be a simple nonetheless tedious tack for Japanese Restaurant Desserts in KL.

Ebi Sushi

No massacres, no mayo as well as no cheese. Not dazzling, though only great old solid Japanese Food that some people competence tenure comfort food. It doesn't come cheap. Lunch for 2, i.e. 2 sets as well as 4 pieces of sushi, desserts as well as green tea came up to RM110 per pax.

Udon

I know that this is a food blog, though infrequently we only can't help myself. we was only thinking about my recent tirade against Thomas Lee's op ed piece, as well as had thought about a subject whether if Morality can exist but God. we am still sticking to my guns.

Black Sesame Ice Cream

Sorry for a reduced post, as we am feeling sleepy after a long day walking. we am still upon Holidays as well as will be behind upon a 4th. Ta's!

Benkay Japanese Restaurant
Hotel Nikko
165 Jalan Ampang
50450 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: +6.03.21.61.11.11