We heard so much about fine dining… and we all know fine dining is something very classy, and expensive. And the food are so delicate and presentable.But have you all ever wonder there’s also Chinese fine dining food also. And guess what, you can find this in G Hotel, the one and only Chinese Fine Dining Restaurant – Sesame.
It was a small restaurant that shares the space with Soy (that’s why they call themselves Sesame & Soy). Soy is a casual fusion restaurant, where as Sesame is a fine dining concept. I don’t quite use to it when I went there the other day. I need to pass by Soy first before I reach Sesame. However the setting and decoration in Sesame was nice and classy.
We held the birthday dinner in Sesame and ordered the 7 course dinner that night. Each of every dish that sent to us was amazing, beautiful, and presentable. It’s more like an art to us… it was so delicate that we find it eating it is like a waste.
Look at the cutlery setting, isn’t it nicely organized?
The interior of a VIP room.
Let’s start with an appetizer for the night. I supposed this is an Ikan Bilis that deep fried. Proportion it into small little tiny bowl. Slightly salty, but taste good.
1st course – Roasted Pork Belly with crispy bean curd skin & Yunnan ham roll. This is the 1st course, and it impressed to all of us. Cuz, the roasted pork belly skin is so crispy, and the meat is tender. It's not like over roasted. As for the bean curd skin, it's something special, unlike popiah skin that is chewy.
2nd course – Double Cook Superior Stock with minced pork & water chestnuts. The soup is slighly salty & oily to me. Something different than the usual shark fin soup.
3rd course – Roasted Quail with soft quail’s egg, garlic confit & five spiced salt. I believe they marinated the quail with five spices powder. The meat is tender and juicy too.
4th course – Slow Cooked Salmon with fermented black beans, garlic & spinach. I supposed this is a pan fried salmon. Nothing special except that they have this fermented black beans that match with this fish.
5th course – Homemade Spinach Bean Curd with Chinese mushrooms. This is the one that everyone gave it a two thumbs up!! The bean curd was soft and smooth, and you wouldn't notice that the spinach is on top of the bean curd. This is truely highly recommended if you're there, as well as the roasted pork belly (aka siew yok, hahaha...)
6th course – Birthday noodle. Since this is a birthday dinner, thus, I'd asked the chef to change from stir fry yee foo noodle to Lam Mee.
7th course – Red Bean Paste Pancake with Vanilla ice cream. Last, the dessert!!! Hmmmm, yummy yummy... the red bean paste isn't that sweet also. It's nicely done. We were laughing over it, why don't they give Haagen Daze ice cream?
We have also ordered this Roasted Duck with Mango Sauce as an extra dish, just too worried that we didn’t get to have enough food. The duck turns out to be very nice and tender. Though Mango sauce and duck isn’t a good combination, but this dish was something different from others.Oh yes, if you’re a Citibank Gold or Platinum holder, you’re entitled for a 15% of the food bill.
Address & Contact Number
Located at first floor
G Hotel, Persiaran Gurney
Penang
For reservations or enquiries, please call 604 238 0258
Business Hour
Lunch 11.30am to 3.00pm (Last order 2.30om)
Dinner 6.00pm to 11.00 pm (Last order 10.00pm)
G Hotel, Persiaran Gurney
Penang
For reservations or enquiries, please call 604 238 0258
Business Hour
Lunch 11.30am to 3.00pm (Last order 2.30om)
Dinner 6.00pm to 11.00 pm (Last order 10.00pm)
I was told their pizza is good, home made crust & rich fillings. I didn’t have that but ordered a 
Before the main course, we both actually ordered soup, I was conservative, didn’t want to try on others but only mushroom. I guess they were using the wild mushrooms, blend and cook with cream and garlic. Taste wise was so so, not that bad, but I find that something is missing, which I can’t tell what is that.
Another bowl of soup is 
After the soup, here comes our main course. Like I said earlier, I didn’t order Pizza for myself but a Spaghetti Arrabiata. 
Hubby got himself a QE’s Special Crusty Lamb. The outer layer of the lamb was crispy, and the meat are tender and juicy. It was unbelievable nice.
After the meal, he loves to have a cup of coffee, well, he didn’t get anything like that but a glass of Mocha Coffee instead.
The famous dish is their Crab Porridge. We only order bowl the other night, just thought of trying out. The taste was absolutely sweet (not that they put rock sugar), the sweetness is from the crabs. The crabs are rather small in size but it’s absolutely fresh.
Beside the famous dish, we also order this ‘snail’ fried with dried chilies. This is a completely different dish and we were surprise and kinda like it. It’s like Western food you’ll have Escargot, and for Chinese, we’ll have ‘snail’. [LOL]
Salted Fish stir fry Beans Sprout, one of our favourite dish, though it’s cheap, but it’s also very much depend on the cook whether can he or she could make this delicious or not, agree? Of course wok hei (鑊氣) is equally important!!
We also have a simple steam fish. The fish is rather small in size, but the timing that they steam was absolutely just in time, cuz, the meat was so tender and smooth! But the sauce is a bit salty for my taste, and for old people too. [grin]
Hehehe… an Espresso Flappocino & a Mocha Flappocino from Starbucks… honestly, don’t quite like their coffee…. it’s very sweet to my liking, still prefer Coffee Bean.