by peejeej on July 26th, 2010
My birthday was on the 25 of July. Turned 31 (omg).. I’ve been craving lobster, since it has been about a year since I last had any. We went to Grand Palace in Rotterdam.
We chose to types of dim sum:
Char Siu Cheong Fun, Chinese bbq pork wrapped in rice noodle sheets with soy sauce.
Turnip cake, steamed rice flour and Asian radish with dried shrimp and pork cut into slices and panfried. One of my all time favourites, especially when the outside has turned crispy.
As our mains we had half a Peking duck and lobster together with some steamed rice. I really wanted some pork belly, but they had run out. 
Thinly cut pieces of Peking duck with crispy crunchy skin.
Pancakes and toppings (cucumber, spring onion, pickled cabbage and hoi sin sauce) for the peking duck.
Om nom nom! It’s making my mouth water.
And my all time favourite which I just don’t have often enough.
Lobster with ginger, garlic and spring onions.. I ate my first lobster as a kid with Chinese New Years. It’s been a long time since I celebrated it with my family and only recently discovered the dish at a local restaurant. Sadly though it was a bit tough, because it was slightly overcooked. I still loved it though and the sauce on it’s own it just yummy.
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by peejeej on July 7th, 2010
It has been a while since we bought some snacks from St. Anny in Rotterdam. We were in the neighbourhood scored some Chinese roasted pork at May Fung went by St. Anny’s and got these goodies.
Fried Cha siu bao. We never seen or had these before. The outside is nice and crispy and the inside has the soft firm texture of my scones. The bread seems slightly sweet which goes well with the cha siu filling. Will definitely buy these again.
On the left, Ham sui kok a fried glutinous rice ball filled with meat and vegetables. I’m guessing this one only has pork. These didn’t have that much filling, but they were fine none the less.
On the right is a Chinese chicken pie, it’s about the size of my index fingers and thumbs making a circle. It’s flat like a cookie, has a crumbly top (like pie crust) and a flaky puffpastry like bottom. It’s filled with a chicken, onion and corn mix. A nice little snack for when you aren’t too hungry.
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by peejeej on December 8th, 2009
Last sunday we went for some Dim Daily take away. Our favorite restaurant was closed so we went for the next option. It had been a while since we had food from Dim Daily. Don’t think we’ll be having the same from them again.
We ordered beef ho fan (rice stick noodles), ngau yuk kau (beef dim sum) and a pork dim sum wrapped in bean curd sheet. It was a bit of a let down. The rice sticks were fine. The thin strips of beef were nice and tender, but they had a not very pleasant stock like flavor. Not the deep luscious soy flavor we’re used to. The beef dim sum was nice, the pork dim sum was pretty bland.
It’s a shame, we used to visit Dim Daily regularly a couple of years ago. They also do sushi, but for sushi I’d rather go elsewhere.
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by peejeej on December 2nd, 2009
A post about some of my favorite Chinese dishes. Excuse the bad quality phone pics, but I just had to share these. Also not sure about the “correct spelling” of these dishes. I might be of Chinese descent, but I don’t speak it.
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