Sunday, May 6, 2007

Emperor’s Court

Manggis Mall is about an hour drive from home so all of us left early for our dim sum breakfast at the Emperor’s Court, the only fancy restaurant located in this place.

Manggis Mall

We arrived a little after 9 a.m but there were already a few tables occupied.

Grand entrance with a waiting area
Elegant decor on the inside

Since we had the buffet dim sum, the folks in my family took loads of dishes and our table was laden with all sorts of dim sum, from steam to fried.

Being the near-pro-blogger-for-money that I am, I pushed aside all sense of shame and photographed nearly every single dish that arrived on our table.

Chicken feet & Halal-version of “Pai Kut” (Spare Ribs)
Chicken Ball & Fu-Chuk (my favorite)
Crispy Prawn (Eu’s favorite) & Crispy Yam
Sushi & Siew Mai
“Har Kau” (Prawn) & Shanghai Dumpling (Chicken)
Chicken with Cheese Ball & Some kind of pancake
Mine & Eu’s dessert

These were not even all of the food that we had!

Being a halal restaurant, everything was either prawn or chicken. There were other food which we didn’t take, like the noodle soup (beef tendon and wantan soup), porridge (which they did take but no photo), fried noodle and some other other food. The dessert section was not bad, with jellies and fresh fruits.

The ambience was nice too, the decor was elegant and I especially like the imitation terracotta warriors on our side of the wall.

I thought the food were tasty enough. Hubby said most were too salty, Qi “said” she didn’t like anything (she’s not a restaurant-goer) and Eu loves the crispy fried skin, the green jelly but hated the red beans (another weird taste she shared with her papa as I love red beans!)

All these were for B$15.80 and it was no wonder that it was packed by the time we left after 10 a.m.

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