Fusion Japanese. Kin Shui Tei, Tropicana Golf Resort, PJ.

from Paranoid Android

(no pork served)

Exterior of Kin Shui Tei. It is located at the Clubhouse of Tropicana Golf Resort.

I came to know about Kin Shui Tei after reading FBB's blog. I have a natural aversion to PJ. It is a nightmare for me to navigate around, because the residents are housed in similar looking houses and a perfunctory playground in the middle of a few houses. The similarity is confusing and scares me. I have only started staying in KL since July 2007 and it took me this long to grasp my way around and to learn the acronyms of the numerous highways which serve a rather redundant purpose of hastening my arrival to another bigger jam.

Thanks to SatNav, I have ventured infrequently to PJ, and am able to drive to IKEA without any incidences like hammering my GPS unit into smithereens. Or tearing out my hair in frustration. As usual, I opted to start out early in order to arrive at Tropicana Golf Resort to avoid being a pain in the neck to the rest of my dining companions.

Jumbo Salmon Skin Roll

The journey there was incident free, except for 2 wrong turns along the way. Big bungalows dot the road that lead to the Clubhouse of the Golf Resort. A few were tastefully designed, but some were a vulgar display of wealth. It felt like a competition in the schoolyard and trying to shock your friends with who can say the most obscene word and hence gain the scout's badge for being the most foul mouthed.

Maybe a different set of aesthetic principles apply to those who can afford to squander a few million Ringgits to built palatial homes. Who am I to judge anyway? But this was not the PJ I imagined to be and made a mental note to try to venture to the suburbia more often.

Fried Gingko, Picture courtesy of Splashie Boy.

The menu at Kin Shui Tei is extensive. Very ambitious and a little too comprehensive for comfort. I am usually very wary of restaurants that have a very extensive menu. Some form of sacrifice usually has to be made in order to produce an extensive menu. The interior of the Restaurant is fairly pleasant, with a view of a small Japanese inspired garden with a small fountain.

Spider Maki that was accidentally delivered to our table by mistake

The restaurant is large, with a common dining area that is sensibly partitioned for privacy. There are some private tatami rooms available too. They are well stocked with Sake and some wines. The Captains of the restaurant were fairly knowledgeable and service was prompt and efficient.

Wagyu Carpaccio

Our lunch started off with some Deep Fried Gingko. The slightly bitter sweet tasting nuts were a bit on the hard side and came lightly salted. It is very hard to go wrong with this simple dish. The next to arrive was the clear and simple Dobin Mushi, which is basically Dashi Soup, with some seafood and mushrooms thrown inside for flavour. The soup was served inside a little Dobin Pot and with a squeeze lime, the union was perfect bliss.

Oyster Teppanyaki

Absolute Japanese Cuisine Purist should stop reading at this juncture. The Jumbo Salmon Skin Maki was pleasant enough and came with a dollop of bean paste on top. The Salmon Skin was flavourful and crunchy. The Golden Roll Maki was filled with Unagi and the outer layer wrapped in Mango and Black Tobiko Roe. Both Makis were palatable enough and not offensive, but struck a rather discordant note in terms of purity of taste.

Dobin Mushi

Like wise with the Carpaccios. The Kanpachi fillets were raw and fresh, while the succulent Wagyu was lightly seared. It was served with Avocados, Mayonnaise and some oil browned garlic. A tad overwhelming, but should please for lovers of comfort food.

Golden Roll

The oysters were fresh and succulent, and came deep fried with garlic. However, the Uni Tofu was too watery and did not do justice the creaminess of Urchin Roe.

Uni Tofu

One dish that was unanimously unfavourable was the Hotategai Shuto Cream. It was an overdone, mushy, unidentifiable mess smothered in cream.

Kanpachi Carpaccio

I think we just ordered the wrong dishes here, and went overboard with the noveaux, "fusion" dishes. The ingredients were obviously fresh and well prepared in it's own way. It would be a charming place to meet and mull over business, the food is beautifully presented and is probably pleasantly palatable enough for everybody and not too obtrusive.

Hotate Gai Shotu Cream

I know I am not my usual verbose and effusive self. I would certainly give this place another go, but will stick to the Classics instead. Lunch for 4 was approximately RM400 after taxes.


Kin Shui Tei
Jalan Kelab Tropicana,
47410 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Tel: 03-78042079 / 03-78804437 ext 315

Turkey Mushroom Risotto

Have leftover turkey or turkey stock? Our T-day turkey constructed 3 quarts of batch this year. This risotto by Hank is a good approach to make make use of of it. So creamy, my father begged Hank for a recipe, as good as here it is. ~EliseTo me, leftover poultry regularly equates to risotto, no have a difference if it's duck or turkey. Why? Because we regularly have batch from a carcasses as good as we make make use of of this batch to season a rice. There's additionally often a bit of leftover meat unresolved aroundespecially with a leftover turkeyso which goes into a rice as well. Add a couple of mushrooms as good as some herbs as good as booyah! You have a makings of some high-end joy food.A good risotto requires patience, as good as a strong stirring arm. You contingency stir a rice almost all a time for upwards of a half-hour, differently we will not get which wonderful creaminess which creates a risotto a risotto. You supplement a turkey batch and/or H2O slowly, letting each small bit soak up before adding a subsequent glug, stirring all a while. It's a labor of love.I used chanterelle mushrooms for this dish, because they go so good with turkey. You could make make use of of any uninformed mushrooms, nonetheless a hulk portobellos have been not preferred here. we happen to like shiitake mushrooms with chicken.Cheese is pretty much a given with risotto, as good as Elise came up with a idea of using chevre, a uninformed goat cheese. It's a small musty as good as really tangy, which adds to a altogether flavors of this dish. If we wanted to go some-more traditional make make use of of pecorino or parmesan.Serve this risotto with a green salad (arugula would be nice) as good as a crisp white wine, such as a Sancerre, an unoaked Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio or Chenin Blanc. If we have been a beer drinker, a pilsner or lager would be perfect.

Turkey Mushroom Risotto Recipe

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You contingency make make use of of risotto rice for this recipe or it will not work. These ricesArborio, Carnaroli or Vialone Nanocontain special starches which slough off when we stir a rice, formulating a tawny sauce but any added cream.

Ingredients

  • 2 Tbsp butter
  • 1 large shallot, chopped
  • 1/3 pound chanterelles or alternative uninformed mushrooms, chopped
  • 2 garlic cloves, chopped
  • 1 Tbsp uninformed sage, chopped
  • 1 1/2 cups Arborio, Carnaroli, Vialone Nano, or alternative risotto rice
  • Salt
  • 3 cups turkey or duck stock
  • 2 ounces Chevre or alternative uninformed goat cheese
  • Black pepper to taste

Method

1 Bring a stock, as good as an one more 2 cups of water, to a simmer.2 Heat a butter in a medium-sized pot over medium-high heat for 1-2 minutes, until it begins to brown. Add a shallots as good as mushrooms as good as toss to combine. Salt them good as good as saut until a shallots have been translucent, about 3 minutes. 3 Add a garlic, virtuoso as good as rice as good as stir well. Saut for an additional 1-2 minutes, stirring often. Add 1 crater of a simmering stock. Stirring constantly, let a batch soak up before adding an additional 1/2 cup. Repeat, stirring almost constantly, until a rice is al dente, baked by but still a small firm. This will take about 20-30 minutes. 4 When a rice is al dente, supplement a goat cheese as good as stir good to combine. Add a black pepper as good as stir again. Serve at once.

Serves 4. Links:Wild Turkey Risotto - from Hunter Angler Gardener Cook
Turkey, Artichoke as good as Kalamata Olive Risotto - from Sarah's Cucina Bella


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Sweet Secrets with Anna Olson Thanks to AFC & Le Meridien, KL

Another general luminary cook is in Malaysia interjection to Asian Food Channel!

Host of SUGAR, the single of my prime desserts cook shows, ANNA OLSON was standing, mixing, baking & fooling around hardly 5 feet away from me only final Thursday. (Thank we Cheryl for the opportunity).

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Anna Olson excludes charm & is positively entertaining in the spotlight. Her transparent intonated English (no complicated accent) made the event the zephyr to follow & she easily shares baking tips as she fast mixes, beat, explains as well as fun with the media in the room throughout the complete 2 hours session. ;-)

Pic credited to FatBoyBakes.

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Annas demo event showcased 3 recipes, of which each highlighted pass ingredients from her dear home country, Canada.

Pic credited to FatBoyBakes.

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As we all know, Canada is famous for maple syrup; as well as hence the recipe for Maple Walnut Ice Cream.
Raisin Butter Tart, (with maple syrup as the single of the ingredients) is apparently the renouned Canadian dessert as well.

Apples have been featured heavily in their desserts too, as Canadians has access to apples (due to the seasonal change) 6 months out of the year. Anyhow, no matter whom we are; American or Canadian or Malaysian, many of us adore the good slice of hot apple pie no?

Here Anna incorporated the health! ier vers ion of the apple muffin by regulating total wheat flour & vegetable oil versus butter. She added cheese for the honeyed & tainted taste combo that she claims the Canadians love..

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Pic credited to FatBoyBakes.

Anna Olson No luminary front & is as incredibly engaging upon TV as well as in genuine life.

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Her super honeyed Raisin Butter Tart.

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Maple Walnut Ice Cream.

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You can locate Anna Olsons live in person too! Her cooking cum lunch sessions have been OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, during Le Meridien KL, upon 27 & 28th of November, 11-3pm, with lunch & FREE FLOW MUMM CHAMPAGNE, during RM330++ per head. Check it out HERE.

And lastly, let me share with we Annas recipe for her Maple Walnut Ice Cream!

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