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Don't they look delish? These are just some of the dishes that you can try at Han's Dim Sum. At affordable prices and guaranteed freshness (the dim sums are steamed upon ordering, not pre-steamed and kept heated) you'll be pleasantly surprised by how full-filling these dishes are. Looking for a quick lunch that is light on the tummy and pocket, but heavy on flavours and satisfaction, add Han's Dim Sum to your existing list. If you don't have a list yet, why not start with this?

Located at the Third Mile area, Han's Dim Sum occupies the corner lot of shophouses across Timberland Medical Center just next to Jolibee. Other landmarks to hep you spot the right location is Siang Siang Corner and Maxis. Here's the foursquare location. No pork, no lard, no alcohol served here. According to my host, Han's Dim Sum is trying to attract the younger generations to enjoy dim sums as a meal in general, and I have to agree, this place has all the perks that we all could enjoy (personally tho, if it comes to food, I'm game >.<)/

Let's start with the house specials - Chicken Rice Wrapped in Lotus Leaf. Choose your preferences be it roasted or steamed. As the name suggests, the chicken rice topped with chicken of your choice is wrapped with lotus leaf before being steamed, giving the pleasant aroma as you enjoy it. The portion is also good for a full lunch meal.

Next is another house specials - the Sifu Pau. This is another lunch-appropriate meal, and suitably made to enjoy dine-in or to go. It is a essentially a bundle of joy - a hot, steamed bun with glutinous rice, herbs, chicken and salted egg yolk (a Chinese friend told me it is essentially lo mai kai in a bun >.<)/  OMG I cannot get over the taste of it. I only had a quarter, but I kid you not, the bun was soft and supple (erk, that's a weird adjective to use on buns.. pun intended) the sticky rice and chicken was savoury, and the salted egg yolk was the surprise center. yummeeeehhh!!!! 

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The writer would like to stress that it is now 12.30 on a Saturday morning, and he hasn't had lunch and skipped breakfast and is now droooling at his own post >.<

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When it comes to choices of dim sum, there are many to choose from the menu. If you're a little lost at what to get, came with a couple of friends or simply have a big appetite, try Han's Yamcha Starter Set. This is the house favourite, serving the following dim sums:

Chicken Ham Roll

Seaweed Roll

Braised Chicken Wing

Century Egg Siew Mai

Chicken and Mushroom Siew Mai

and the chef's pick of the day.

Of course, you still have a choice to mix and match the individually priced dim sums from the menu.  Various condiments and dips are also available to dip the dim sums - I'm inclined to think that some dips complements a certain dim sum and do not work as well with others, but the only rule I follow is that if it taste good, it taste good. If not, try a different one. >.<  

Common kopitiam drinks are also available to wash down all those good food, or just order a pot of Chinese tea and shoot the breeze with your friends. 

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The writer would like to point out that he just realised Han's Dim Sum is less than 5 minutes drive from where he is currently at. There can be no doubt that he is going there for lunch >.<

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After almost a week craving for sushi, finally had a chance to dine at a Malay owned sushi restaurant - Yukimi Sushi. Located at Matang, behind eMart, on the same block with KK Superstore, it has a decent choice of japanese menu, sushi included.. It also has a branch at Satok Walk, the new wing of Wisma Satok.

Before going into the sushi n other menus there, let me talk about the place first. This is the Matang branch.. Its cozy, very home-like setting.. few seats, the place is quite small.. some Japanese style ornaments here n there, including the fish-shaped door chime.. Wasabe n soy sauce placed on the table, which is pretty common for a japanese dining place.. my rating, 7.5 out of 10.. could do without the light around the window frame, and the tv is a distraction for conversation.. I personally prefer music..

The menu - to my dissapointment, soba n udon r out of stock.. I settled with a grilled salmon bento and a set of various of sushi.. my friend who were with me as well ordered another salmon dish, and the other had tori-something bento set, which was essentially chicken fried with bread crumb based batter..

I have to say I was deeply dissapointed. The salmon on the sushi was not fresh at all. N grilled salmon tasted a lot like tenggiri.. the wasabi had no kick in it, n miso soup was more like soy sauce soup. There was no seaweed at all in it. Instead, they put crab meat..

But the wakane or sea weed sushi was almost delicious. Almost, but not quite. The batter on the takoyaki had too much flour in it that the taste of tako, or baby octopus, was barely there. Same goes for teriyaki.. this is the deep fried prawn. The bread crumbs masks the prawn so much that it overpowers the taste of the prawn.. Perhaps the most displeasing was the staleness of salmon, as well as the rice quality.. tasted like normal rice, instead of the ones used in Sushi King.

For food, its a mere 3 out of 10. For effort tho, 7 out of 10.. hey, at least somebody tried, rite?

Haiz.. I miss Sushi King even more.. all in all, it was a dissapointing experience.. A bit more training, and better n fresher ingredients, the perhaps it'll at least put up a decent fight against Sushi King..

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