Once seated, service is pretty quick too. Waiters come around with a variety of steamed dumplings and fried foods almost immediately so you can get started almost right away. So far, so good. I hope they keep up with this.
Now on to a review of their dim sum. I was quite impressed with their prawn dumpling (har kow). It’s generously stuffed with fresh-tasting prawns unlike many places that offer the dumpling with thick flour and very little prawns inside.
Prawn dumplings (har kow)
They also have excellent siew loong pau (sorry, I don’t know what it is in English). It is stuffed with steamed pork and juicy gravy, served with ginger soaked in some vinegar on the side. This definitely comes recommended.
Siew loong pau
If you like glutinous rice (loh mai fan), give theirs a try. You won’t find the usual glutinous rice that’s dark brown in colour. Their recipe is actually a glutinous fried rice, so you will find typical ingredients of fried rice in this glutinous rice. Delicious indeed!
Fried glutinous rice
The char siew and prawn cheong fan (barbequed pork and prawn wrapped in thick noodles) is also quite good. It is a rather small portion, served with some greens which is quite unusual. I found the chilli paste that comes with this cheong fan to be quite good and not too salty.
Barbequed pork and prawn cheong fan
One other good dish served here is the Marmite pork ribs. The Marmite sauce is rich, caramel-like and very tasty. Finger licking good, if you ask me!
Marmite pork ribs
There are a lot of other good dishes served at this restaurant that I’ve yet to try. Some are rather luxurious things like a soup made of abalone and fresh scallops. Try their egg tarts too, they are quite popular and they have one person standing by the oven to bake them fresh!
Overall, the prices are quite reasonable for the quality of food you get at Jin Xuan Hong Kong Restaurant. If you are hunting a good place for dim sum, give this outlet a try.
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the soup is simply delicious. it the soup comes with 1 pc of sui kow look alike but inside this sui kow is scallop, sharks fin, netted white bamboo shoot. and together with this clear based soup is a pc of netted bamboo shoot about 3 inches long. a must have. it costs RM10 per small bowl. the pan fried ‘woh teep’ is another must have. the skin of the ‘woh teep’ tasted like fish cake. and they also have mussels with prawns and cheeeeese toppings. yummy
I must try that next! But I’m skeptical about bamboo shoot coz I don’t like the smell. I also want to try that mussel!!!