Chin’s Stylish Chinese Cuisine

A Sichuan cuisine in town that not many people is aware of. It’s authentic & original. Chefs are ‘imported’ from Beijing and the restaurant is awarded a few awards as following –

• The Best Chinese Restaurant in UK by Stores Magazine, New York, USA
  
• Best of the Best by Good Life Magazine

I am pleased to introduce Chin’s – The Stylish Chinese Cuisine which established in 1987 London UK. The restaurant was voted The Best Restaurant of the Year by What’s on in London & Store Magazine, New York. Restaurant owner Dave Chin’s number 4th restaurant in town was only opened few months ago and was not publicly launched.

A brief intro about Dave Chin, owner of QE II, SoHo Country House in Auto City and SoHo Free House in Penang Road. Chin’s is the 4th restaurant that owned by him. A graphic designer by profession, and also run a restaurant in London some time in the 80s and 90s.

The in-house deco is nicely done up, cozy and romantic. Chandeliers dangling down from the ceilings are eye catching; each table has different type of chairs, and setting. Even the dining plate is hand written and it’s open for sale, each plate selling at RM180 each.

Chin’s signature and awarded dish are – Abalone, Foie Gras, Crispy Aromatic Duck, and Lobster Noodle. Each sets range from RM128 (minimum 4 pax) to RM68 (minimum 2 pax) for their customers.

Cold Appetizers that serves are Garlic Cucumber, Spicy Turnip Cubes, Hunan Shredded Seaweed and Century Eggs in Grilled Red Pepper.

Hot Appetizers are Heavenly Blessed Joysticks which has Seashell meat, Baby Abalone and Sea Fungus dip in the hot boiled chili oil in a bamboo. It was what it says Heavenly Blessed Joysticks.

Not to miss Sesame Prawns on Toast is absolutely crispy and it tempts you to have more of it.

After all appetizers were served, a waitress hand us a bowl of warm water with a slice of lemon for us to wash our hand. That means it’s ready for the second dish, Chin’s awarded dish – The Chin’s Aromatic Crispy Duck.

This dish has to accompany by the home made pancake, sweet sauce, spring onions, and slice cucumbers. It’s absolutely delicious.

After having that, main course is on its way to our table, I could smell the aromatic Sichuan hot pepper… Spicy Hot Poached Fish, it’s socked by hot chili oil, in Sichuan, the entire bowl is full of chili oil, but down here has slightly modify due to people’s health conscious.

We were supposed to have Crispy Chili Beef, but we requested to change to Dragon & Phoenix Nesting. It’s utterly beautiful, and the prawns are fresh and tender.

Steamed Frog-leg in Bamboo Tube Pepper. It’s something that we have not seen before nor try, it’s definitely thumbs up.

Hot Pot Chicken, Salted Fish & Aubergine. The pot is absolutely fragrant and aromatic.

Sauté Hot & Sour Chinese Cabbage, it looks simple, but it’s definitely hot and spicy. Don’t be fooled by its look in fact.

Not to forget, the above all is best to serve with a bowl of fragrant steam rice.

Last but not least… let’s have a dessert on a Martini glass…. Jasmine Jelly, Sea Coconut & White Fungus that ends the wonder dinner in a pleasant restaurant.


Address & Contact Number
Chin’s Stylish Chinese Cuisine
Tanjong City Marina
Church St Pier (Next to QE II)
8A Pengkalan Weld
Georgetown, Penang
Tel: +604-261 2611
Fax: +604- 261 3128
Mobile: Dave Chin +6012-478 1262

Sesame

A revisit to this Chinese Fusion Fine Dining Restaurant that is located at the 2nd floor of G Hotel, and its named Sesame.

I’ve been here before, and if you remember we’d good time down there many years ago. It was a good experience for us and our family.

This visit is merely company’s event that we organized, and this is the place that we chose to appreciate our colleagues for the past one year hardship.

It was a Scavenger Hunt that our department organized and the final destination is right here at Gurney Plaza, conveniently the dinner that adjourns the teambuilding would be at G Hotel.

Price range down from RM66 to RM128, we chose the RM118 menu that consists of sumptuous food like caviar, lobster, abalone, etc.

Doesn’t that sound interesting? Yup, and I just mentioned abalone and caviar.

1st dish that served was Sichuan Chilled Smoked Duck (四川煙鴨青瓜柱), jelly fish stuffed with tuna mayo, served in Japanese cucumber ring.

2nd dish was Shanghainese Golden Broth (上海黃燜乾貝翅), basically shark’s fin, crab roe and black caviar on a golden broth. This is absolutely elegant, and delegate to me.

3rd dish was Hunan Style Baby Lobster (湖南乾煎小龍蝦), it’s a simmered with garlic and spicy bean sauce marinated lobster. It was utterly yummy yummy!!

4th dish was Baked Cod Fish (巧手叉燒焗銀鱈), marinated with char-siew sauce then baked. Steamed French beans and deep fried herbs as deco. Some how I don’t find this well go with the cod fish, perhaps it should be either lightly pan fried or lightly baked.

5th is what they named it Golden Fried Rice (XO鮑仔黃金炒飯), cubes of baby abalone, fried with XO sauce and added salmon roe as deco.

Last but not least… not to miss the dessert, Green Tea Tiramis (綠茶伴提拉米蘇) and Soya-Apple Ice Cream. Since this is a Chinese Fusion Fine Dining, I would expect something like Chinese Dessert. Anyway, it wasn’t that bad, it’s smooth unfortunately it wasn’t that chilled when it serves.

Oh yes, before I end this post, would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy New Year... Cuz, today is a Spring Day and to the traditional customs, this is the day that a new year is begin!