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Chinese New Year Menu 2013: Cheng Ho Court Chinese Restaurant, Mines Wellness Hotel

Post author:Author RS
Post published:January 17, 2013
Post category:Food
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Located on the 3rd level of Mines Wellness Hotel, The Cheng Ho Court is a Halal Chinese restaurant that serves Cantonese cuisine as well as dim sum. The restaurant was named after Cheng Ho, a well-famed Chinese-Muslim court eunuch, mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral who commanded voyages to Southeast Asia, the Middle East and many more during the Yuan Dynasty.
His voyage is usually referred to as “Voyages of Zheng He”, and you could easily find the traces of his exploits in our very own country, in the Historical state of Malacca.

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pla dib @ The Heritage Village, Seri Kembangan

Post author:Rebecca Saw
Post published:September 24, 2010
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Once in a while, up pops an outlet that doesn’t churn out the dreary copy- cat dishes or fusion disasters.

Naturally, such outlets immediately inspires hope, yet anxiety as well, “could it be a fluke?” , ” can the rest of the menu held up to expectations? “.

Hence in bated breath I await for opportunities for subsequent visits while I tuck away the pictures from my first. And to be happily satiated again & again on my return visits simply inspired today’s blog post.

pla dib @ The Heritage Village, Seri Kembangan is one such place. Apparently a franchise from Thailand, pla dib (meaning raw fish in Thai) does Thai fusion and does it damn well.

With the restaurant named after ‘raw fish’, I was hard pressed not to order the Salmon Labb (RM10), a ceviche wannabe dish.

Raw salmon slices doused with shoyu & lime juice, sprinkled with chilli flakes & crushed peanuts made the perfect starter. The fish was at parts raw (sections that weren’t ‘cooked’ by the lime concoction) & parts cooked slightly. Each slice was delightfully tangy, sweet, spicy and sour, a medley of flavours all on the tongue at the same instant. Hmmmm… yummy!

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