One of the newest ventures by the Oriental Group of Restaurants is the Han Room at Gardens, Mid Valley KL. We went there on the eve of the Eve of CNY early this week. Though it was a week day, the restaurant was almost fully booked.
For appetizer, we were served a plate of flavorful and appetite whetting deep fried bean curd adorned with Thai-style sweet and sour dressing.
We wanted to eat something light, so we ordered some dim sum, a fried rice for my ‘fan toong’ Alycia and a plate of noodles for my noodles crazed Sherilyn.
The basket of dim sum on the left is otak-otak dim sum. It is Japanese tofu stuffed with fish paste, topped with a piece of otak-otak …
Double boiled chicken soup with abalone. Baby my little soup lover gulped down almost the entire bowl of soup while I wolfed the abalone hehehe…
This is our all-time favorite veggie dish – kai lan cooked in 2 different styles – stir fried at the bottom with deep fried shredded kai lan on top. My girls walloped every strand of the deep fried kailan crisps on the plate.
Fried rice with prawns and crab meat served in clay pot…
Wantan noodles with seafood and fresh mushrooms.
This Cheong fun dish is unique. Wrapped inside the thin flat rice noodles are some deep fried stuffing which this dunderhead can’t really tell what the ingredients are for the stuffing. Taste wise only so-so. I prefer the regular Hong Kong style cheong fun with char siew and prawns or fresh scallops.
We will be making another trip to this restaurant on Valentine’s Day. It will be our CNY reunion meal with our friends.
Cuisine : Chinese
Taste / presentation : 8/10
Ambience : 8/10
Price : some dishes can be pretty pricey. Overall, the price is comparable with other restaurants of this standard.
Information:
Lot G243,G246 &G247,
Ground Floor,
The Gardens Mall,
Mid Valley City, Lingkaran Syed Putra, 59200 KL.
Tel: 03 – 2284 8833
GPS: 3.117849,101.67522
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Love the Gardens Mall as the Mega Mall was too busy when I was there in Nov. I just had to get away! If that resto. had been there, I’d have suggested to go there. Looks really yummy. And that’s a “light” lunch?? haha Is the “Ying Ker Lou” resto still there? Good food there too.
Btw, that kailan 2 ways is very easy to make, and best of all the deep-fried part can be made ahead of time.
Chris, I’ve never been to Ying Ker Lou. Will give it a try one of these days. Oh yea, the deep fried kai lan can be deep fried and stored in a jar and eaten as a snack 🙂
Haha, Shireen you beat me to it! I wanted to check out their new outlet too… since the other outlets did not disappoint. Thanks for the review!
Btw, Ying Ker Lou is qyuite
YKL is quite nice.. one of the panel of places that we can get food easily for Vic.
Was searching for the Han Room and came across your site. Thanks for the info. and just want to comment. WHAT BEAUTIFUL AND ANGELIC GIRLS YOU HAVE! YOU ARE SO BLESSED.
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