Gourmet Garden

Your Food Destination and Quality Review

Our intention is to share our experience, be it good or bad, with other persons who are passionate and demanding on what they savour and consume daily. We also want to encourage the ethical and hard working food providers and businesses to continue providing the high quality standards that we experience, and assist in improvements for those who are lacking behind.

Tang Yuan @ Young Heart Restaurant

Posted by gill gill On December - 22 - 20095 COMMENTS | 144 views

Young Heart is our Restaurant Management and Marketing consultancy client at KwanG Venture, a company that provides ‘Strategic Marketing’, ‘Restaurant Management Set-up’ and other supporting services. For this festive season, we have collaborated with Young Heart’s kitchen to design and produce a set of ‘tang yuan’ (汤圆) theme dishes that are suitable for both the young and the old. Young Heart have come out with three versions of the very meaningful... (more...)

自制家常腊肠食谱

Posted by gill gill On December - 22 - 20091 COMMENT | 60 views

上集讲到冬节吃腊味, 那这回就来动手做家常腊肠! 材料: 猪前腿肉碎(夹心) 450克 五花腩肉 170克 玫瑰露酒 30克 豬肠衣 20克 腌料: 盐     1茶匙 生抽 50克 蚝油 30克 白砂糖 110克 做法: 1.    将肉碎和腌料(除酒)拌均匀, 拌到起胶, 腌3个小时以上存入冰箱过夜. 2.    加入酒, 搅匀后马上塞进肠衣内. 3.    把肉塞完毕后, 用 绳子绑出喜爱的长度. 用针在肉肠上刺洞, 然后烫热水. 4.  ... (more...)

何谓「腊味」?

Posted by gill gill On December - 22 - 2009ADD COMMENTS | 58 views

腊肠 润肠腊肠 近几年来, 在年尾时段总会听到余仁生在某家电台打广告. 你是否对 “腊味风一吹, 收工快快去”留下印象? 好一个朗朗上口的词句. 听到这句时, 表示冬至就快来临,也意味着旧的一年将会结束. 到时候炎热的大马, 刮起阵阵年尾北风,凉快非常, 这就是我最爱的季节和气候! 已往大概11月左右北风就会刮起, 然而今年的气候变化不定, 几天前才稍有微风的踪影,可算是迟来的北风。 每当北风到来,... (more...)

Traditional Foods: Hakka Abacus Beads

Posted by Jason Wong On December - 19 - 20094 COMMENTS | 150 views

Hakka cuisine concentrates on the texture of food, simplicity and the umami (旨味) or savoury flavour of the dish. As like other dishes or cuisines, Hakka cuisine is influence by the attributes of the environment were they settled down or has it roots from, which is one of the reasons behind the variety of dishes and flavours that are synonymous to Hakka cuisine. The Hakka’s has provided to the public at large some their more famous dishes that are dished our in restaurants across Malaysia, China... (more...)

Food Do’s: Wine Tasting @Hardwicke House

Posted by Jason Wong On December - 9 - 20095 COMMENTS | 262 views

A few weeks back, we managed to arrange for some our blogging friends to try out Hardwicke House’s buffet offerings during diner time. The event also included a sampling of 3 labels of wine and an introduction to their in-house coffee brand. It was a shame that they were not able to meet up with the person behind Hardwicke House’s new eating outlet after ‘Khana’ and ‘Mr. Ho’s Fine Food’. Peter was unable to attend, thus we were hosted by Balan, their chef, and Kelvin. The evening began... (more...)

Hong Kong Day 1 part 1 – The Arrival

Posted by Jason Wong On December - 7 - 20094 COMMENTS | 130 views

We have heard and read of the dining experience of many that have visited Hong Kong. Finally our prayers have been answered, and we were in Hong Kong for 5 long days.  This trip, our major intention was to experience ourselves the delicacies and cuisine that Hong Kong is famous for. This Hong Kong post would be a series of posts that will focus on the experience that we have gain through the 5 days touring in Hong Kong, and later to be followed with some posts on the various delicacies, business... (more...)

香港之旅第一天 (第一集)

Posted by gill gill On December - 7 - 20094 COMMENTS | 238 views

香港-我们终于等到啦! 每个人从香港回来都赞扬他们的点心美食. 这次的旅程当然是以”吃”为重啦! 体验当地风土人情是其次. 很开心在这里和大家分享我们俩的”香港吃旅”. 全程真实报道, 不偏袒,不奉成. 绝对真我的风采! 经光华日报的访问报道出版之后, 我们决定以双语面世,给读者更多的便利. 因我们很久没用中文写作,若有用词不当之处,请多多包涵. 在此, 我们将会推出一系列5日香港游,... (more...)

何谓好吃的云吞面?

Posted by gill gill On November - 24 - 200918 COMMENTS | 774 views

云吞面是起源于广州。据说,此食品在唐宋时已传入广东。至于广东何时用“云吞”二字取代“馄饨”之称,则无从考证。经几百年后的今天, 云吞面已经是谱罗大众绝不可缺的街头面食,在华人心目中有不可取代的地位. 随着华人移民的增加,在不同国家和区域里的云吞面也各有各精彩.在这儿暂别不谈历史, 不如大家一起来研究一下大马和香港两地的云吞面有何不同之处, 了解面条区分之余,... (more...)

A few weeks ago we had a cordial chit chat session with a reporter from Kwong Wah Yit Poh(光华日报) over some light snacks provided by Kozue a Japanese Restaurant in Gurney Plaza. We decided to talk over food because it is our passion for food that started and continue to motivate us to blog and share our expectations and experience. And it is food, a humble bowl of Katsudon, that match made us with Ivy of Kozue to become friends. Some people say “we eat to live” and some may say... (more...)

Happy Days are back in Subang Jaya

Posted by Jason Wong On November - 20 - 20092 COMMENTS | 359 views

A day after we came back from our Hong Kong trip, we were invited to attend a new cafe launching somewhere in Subang Jaya. We didn’t know what the event all about is until we arrive, thus I was ill equip to get good photos of the event. I guess if were to say that I used to watch ”Good Ol’ Happy Days’; many would think that I am an middle age person. Well, not quite yet, but am getting there very soon. ‘Happy Days’  was an American television sitcom that was... (more...)

Hong Kong: The Food, The People & The Places

Posted by Jason Wong On November - 17 - 200913 COMMENTS | 218 views

It feels good to be back! We went to Hong Kong one and a half weeks ago for a short adventure to look for good eats and nice places. These are some of the many photos that we took while we were there exploring what Hong Kong has to offer. They are more to come…heee The Food Duck or Goose? Flew all the way from M’sia for duck? no way! GOOSE is the must try in Hong Kong. What a nice and seductive figure hangging around the cafe….haaa For those who had “goose is nothing much... (more...)