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Since I showed you what House of Tang looks like yesterday, it is time to get into the important stuff. The food. This will be the first part where I show you the dim sum that we ate. The dim sum in House of Tang is nothing extremely spectacular. You have your usual array of siu mai, like the picture above and others that you can find in any dim sum restaurant.

The good thing about the dim sum in House of Tang is that it tastes fresh. The meat is succulent and the prawn bits are usually large so you don’t get to eat only pieces of prawns.

One thing that I haven’t seen in other restaurants is the Red Yeast Rice Rolls with Prawns. Easily the best dim sum of the day at House of Tang. When I first saw it, I thought it was chilli skin (which would have been nice as well) but instead it was red yeast. I have no idea what red yeast is but it was good.

And the prawns were big so that was double bonus as well.

Next up was another unique dish from House of Tang. This time around, it was Unagi Puff with BBQ Sauce. In other words, this is “char siew” with eel instead of pork. Being a savoury meal at this point in time, the Unagi Puff was interesting but it was a bit too sweet for me. And I couldn’t really taste the eel as well. Maybe it is best left for Teriyaki sauce.

Having eaten quite a number of dim sums, we were served the last of the dim sum for the day – Siew Long Bao. I like the fact that they put the dumplings in little plates of their own so you don’t run the risk of breaking the skin the moment you try to lift it out of the basket. This way, if you do break the skin, it will swim in that little plate and you can drink it up.

The skin is pretty good, not too thick but enough to hold the soup inside without breaking like a bubble. Having said that, I do wish for a bit more soup to go with the dumpling. Other than that, an excellent item on the menu.

The pricing for the dim sum is an average of RM6 or so. It is not the cheapest place you can eat dim sum but it is reasonable provided you need to impress someone. If you are not going there for the ambience, then you should be eating dim sum at some noisy old Chinese restaurant anyway.

So, there you have it. My dim sum adventure in House of Tang. Tomorrow I will talk about their other dishes and you will be surprised that the simplest dish may yet be the best.