Apparently, using tea leaves for cooking is not something new. Chinese people usually use tea leaves as cooking ingredients. Chef Benson Fok, yes he's a chinese too, prepared some delicious tea-infused menus for you to try. Please welcome, Tea Wonders. This menu only available during September.
Tea Wonders consists of :
- Braised Bo Lei Duck - Rp. 68,000++/portion
- Stir-Fried Phoenix Prawn with Long Jin Tea Leaf - Rp. 98,000++/portion
- Lamb Chop with Golden Phoenix Tea - Rp. 88,000++/portion
- Steamed Bai Ling Mushroom and Seafood with Rain Flower Tea Sauce - Rp. 78,000++/portion
- Glutinous Rice and Fish Cooked with Yellow Treasure Flower - Rp. 58,000++/portion
- Steamed Tomato Stuffed with Assorted Vegetables with Dongding Oolong Sauce - Rp. 58,000++/portion
- Stir-Fried Lotus Root, Water Chesnut, Lily Bud and Pumpkin - Rp. 68,000++/portion
- Chilled Red Tea Jelly with Chinese Pear and Pipa - Rp. 58,000++/portion
I hadn't tried all of them, because part of me insisted to try the regular menu too. :p
Menu that day |
Corn and Crab Soup |
Braised Bo Lei Duck |
Lamb Chop with Golden Phoenix Tea |
I tried for some times, but my sense of smell was just too strong. Nah, lets talk about this one. To be honest, it was well-spiced. I didn't know how the chef cook it, but he succeeded to reduce the lamb-smell. This dish came with scrambled white egg and yummy sauce. I guess there's a tea ingredient in the sauce. The scrambled white egg was magnificent. Absolutely love it. :)
Steamed Bai Ling Mushroom and Seafood with Rain Flower Tea Sauce |
The sauce was mild. Actually i was hoping for stronger sauce because the scallop-prawn-mushroom need to be highlighted.
Glutinous Rice and Fish Cooked with Yellow Treasure Flower |
The good news is there was no symptom of allergy later on. Fiuh. Am I crab-immuned already? Maybe I am. I was a little regret that I didn't eat the corn and crab soup. :p
Chef’s Special Stewed Pork Rib served with Chinese Bread |
Love the texture and taste combination. Good job chef! Hats off! ;)
Chilled Red Tea Jelly with Chinese Pear and Pipa |
Back to Tea Wonders, here was the only dessert of the series. I watched how to make this pear in Masterchef US and was amazed and confuse at the same time. It's pretty hard for me.:p First you must peel the pear, then make a big hole in the middle where the seed and core are there. No worries, here you can enjoy the pear effortless. The dessert wasn't sweet, more in to plain and pipa taste. Good dessert to finish the dinner. To be honest, I didn't know what is pipa. But as we talked about it, the taste reminds us with one of cough syrup, and we assumed pipa was a kind of chinese herb that also used to make cough syrup. I did some small research and got some endorsement for our "theory". lol
Anyhow, the conclusion was this dessert was healthy. ;)
Psssttt.. they also have dimsum menu available everyday until 2.30pm, and all you can eat dimsum also available on weekend at IDR 188,000++. Will try that soon!
Shang Palace
Shangrila Hotel Jakarta
Kota BNI, Jl. Jend. Sudirman kav 1, Central Jakarta
Ph. (62 21) 2922 9999
Fax. (62 21) 2922 9900
http://www.shangri-la.com/jakarta/shangrila/
http://www.shangri-la.com/jakarta/shangrila/dining/restaurants/shang-palace/
Twitter : @ShangrilaJKT
Facebook : Shangrila Jakarta
Instagran : @ShangrilaJKT
0 comments:
Post a Comment