Yum cha

 Fat Buddha

Yum cha (simplified Chinese: 饮茶; traditional Chinese: 飲茶), also known as going for dim sum, is a type of Chinese style brunch tea, which involves drinking Chinese tea and eating dim sum. It is popular in Cantonese-speaking regions in China, including the southern provinces of Guangdong and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau, and has spread to other regions worldwide due to the presence of overseas Chinese.

Fat Buddha is a Chinese restaurant which placed in QVB. It’s a place can yum-cha. My friend and I went there to yum-cha this morning. The furnishing style is traditional Chinese style, the menu of Fat Buddha is just like restaurant in Guangdong. The service there is not good enough, and not all the food in the menu in stock. So we only tasted har gow, chicken feet, milk egg tart, that three dim-sum in Fat Buddha. Har gow which is sometimes called a shrimp bonnet for its pleated shape.These shrimp dumplings are transparent and smooth. The prawn dumplings first appeared in Guangzhou outskirts near the creek bazaar Deli. This dish is said to be the one that the skill of a dim sum chef is judged on.  The har gow in Fat Buddha is just normal level, the dumpling skin of the har gow is not thin enough and the sauce inside is just simple. The chicken feet, also called feng zhua in Chinese. In Guangdong and Hong Kong, they are typically deep fried and steamed first to make them puffy before being stewed and simmered in a sauce flavoured with black fermented beans, bean paste, and sugar or in abalone sauce. The chicken feet in Fat Buddha is so so, the sauce not tasty, but it’s deep cooked, so it’s soft and easy to bite. The most tasty dim sum in these three is milk egg tart. It is a commonly dim sum in Canton.Today, egg tarts are one of the more recognizable dim sum dishes offered in a Dim Sum House. In Guangzhou, there are 3 basic types of egg tarts: dan tat (egg tart), pastel de nata (Portuguese tart), coconut tart. And we ate dan tat this morning, it’s creamy and a little hot, not creamy like english egg custard tart and hotter than english one. It’s worth to try when you have dim sum in Fat Buddha.

The last but not the least, Tea is also an important part of Yum cha, but in Fat Buddha there is only one kind of tea served. In native Yum cha there should be around five kinds of tea to choose. And we will talk about it in next update.

This is the review of Fat Buddha Yum cha.

by  Keaton YU

22/09/2016