Golden Phoenix Chinese Restaurant in Hotel Equatorial KL is one of the finest Chinese Restaurants around and every year the best Chinese chefs in town cook up new and exotic delicacies to keep the menu fresh.

This year, there is a whole array of traditional and modern mooncakes presented and specially created by the Chefs in the Golden Phoenix. We were greeted with a table of these modern mooncakes with flavours like – Pumpkin Taro, Red Yeast Sweet Potato, and the like. They also had the traditional mooncakes – such as Mixed Nuts, Red Bean Green Tea, Single Yolk Lotus, Double Yolk Lotus and what not. More photos of mooncakes at the end of this post

In addition to the mooncakes, they also had these Shining Moonlight – little “gold ingots” made from puff pastry and with lotus paste inside. These were light and buttery but not oily nor too crumbly. The filling was not too sweet and nice. I liked these. They sell it in boxes of 9 pieces and they only make 50 boxes a day! So buy it before it gets sold out.

We also had a preview of their new menu especially created for the Mooncake season. Also, we had a mien making demo by the chef, then three bloggers got to try and make the noodles by pulling it without breaking it. This looked quite fun and i think the participants enjoyed themselves.

First on the menu is the Chicken Ginseng Soup. This soup is boiled for SIX HOURS with wolfberries, chinese dates, ginseng, cordycep, mushrooms and of course chicken. What I liked about the chicken is that the skin has been taken off (so the soup is not oily) but most importantly, the chicken still has taste. Sometimes when you boil the soup for too long, the chicken ends up tasteless, but this one didn’t. So plus points for that. Liked!

Next was the Fook Lou Chou Fan which literally translates to Rich Man’s Fried Rice. This dish has big prawns in it. Also the top is fried dried scallops. Isn’t that interesting? I wouldn’t think about deep frying it then using it on top of fried rice. Unlike your typical chinese fried rice, this one only uses egg whites and less oil so its good for the health conscious. For me, i felt it was a little bland.

Ohh this one i definitely liked. This is Scallops with Mango and Snow Peas. I believe its called “Emperor and Prince”. Mango was an interesting twist to it which made the whole dish taste unique and nice. And the scallops were huge, i mean, look at those things. Very nice.

This one I liked also. This is Fried Foo Chuk Prawn Rolls in Tom Yam Sauce. Bits of prawn wrapped in Foo Chuk then fried. Crunchy on the outside, the inside was soft and yummy, like the fillings of “har kau” prawn dimsum. The sauce complimented the slighly salty foo chuk nicely.

That dish at the back is Special Eggplant La Mien. The noodles are handmade by the chef himself and fried with minced pork, some chillies and eggplants. This dish is slightly spicy and very good.

For dessert we had Gui Ling Gao (turtle Jelly) in Coconut and Durian Pancake. The coconut juice is boiled to eliminate the “cooling” effect and the jelly is added. This dessert was quite refreshing though the turtle jelly has a slight bitterness to it. In fact this was recommended personally by one of the staff who said she drinks it 2-3 times a week.

The durian pancake was the BEST of everything. The soft skin covering the durian flesh like a pillow and the filling is pure durian flesh, not added with any cream. This pancake was utterly delicious and not too sweet. Very very good.

It was a really good food with delicious morsels and unique mooncakes guaranteed to satisfy your palate.

Golden Phoenix Chinese Restaurant
Lobby Level, Hotel Equatorial Kuala Lumpur
Open for Lunch : 12noon to 2.30pm
Open for Dinner : 6.30 pm to 10.30 pm daily.
Reservations : 03-2161 7777 ext 8455

Thank you so much to FeedMeLah.com and Hotel Equatorial for the opportunity to review their new menu and mooncakes!

Now for more mooncake photos, courtesy of April Yim. Complere set HERE.

See, pretty right? (pic frm Rebecca’s blogpost)

Yea so anyway, Their pastries seem to be finishing, I guess cause it was 6 pm so I decided to get a sandwich instead. Ordered a Teriyaki Beef Baguette (RM 10.50).

The bun was nicely toasted and not too hard. The beef was tender and in strips and juicy. It was cooked with onions then paired with tomatoes and lettuce. It came with freshly fried wedges.

(taken with my iPhone and edited using Camera+)

LeVain Boulangerie & Patisserie
Jalan Delima, Off Jalan Imbi,
Kuala Lumpur

Actually they didn’t have the Baked Potato Soup – yea i know, it was really not my day – so we had two different appetizers and one ribs to share.

This is the Asian Bites. I think we salah order because we wanted Buffalo Bites but didn’t realize it till we were halfway through. Its boneless chicken pieces in a batter, fried then thai sweet chilli sauce poured on top. Quite nice but I think i prefer buffalo wings = RM 17.90

This is a bowl of fried mushrooms. The batter is nice and it comes with a honey mustard dip. Its a really big portion so maybe its not so ngam to order with just 2 people because you’d feel muak. RM 16.90

This is a Full Slab of Tony Roma’s Steak. It consists of 5 huge ribs with sticky meat stuck on it. You can choose your own two sides – salads, mashed potatoes with (beef) bacon bits, fries, baked potato, corn or rice. I wouldn’t suggest the Mashed potato, it doesn’t hv any gravy so it feels rather dry. RM69.90

For dessert we had a Apple Crisp ala Mode. its like an apple crumble with a scoop of vanilla icecream on top and drizzled with caramel. The “crisp” part wasn’t enough I think and the apples were sourish but coated in a thick, overly sweet sauce. Rm 14.90

We both had Ice Lemon Tea (refillable) for RM6.90 each. I like the Ribs at Tony Roma’s but in terms of value, I find Chilis more affordable. But the ribs here is still hands down one of the best

p/s: The restaurant charges a 10% service charge and 5% govt tax.

Tony Roma’s Restaurant
Lot G-29(II), G-32 & G-33,
Ground Floor, Mutiara Damansara
47800 Petaling Jaya
Selangor

Tel : 03 77287833

You can adjust the sweetness according to your preference by adding sugar syrup. For some reason i always find that the sugar syrup in Starbucks isnt sweet enough. Milky and creamy with a strong coffee taste this is one of my gave drinks here

Tandoori Chicken (RM5.00) – quarter of chicken marinated in red colored spices. Nice but nothing special about it. Served with mint sauce and some veggies.

Spicy Fried Calamari (RM9.00) – deep fried calamari served with Thais chili sauce, my girl said not as nice as the prawn fritter. As for me it doesn’t deserves a “spicy” title if it only meant to be dipped in the chili sauce.

Cream of Mushroom (RM3.00) – a bowl of mushroom soup that comes with a piece of toasted bread which is (I quote from my girl) “TAK SEDAP”. I don’t really know what to comments as I hate creamy soup.

Mutton Beriyani (RM9.90) – I ordered this to try the mutton and apparently it’s quite nice. A bowl of mutton beriyani with beriyani rice plus half of boiled egg and some veggies. I’m quite disappointed that they don’t allow us to order only the mutton as it only served as a set. Too bad I can’t have it with naan.

5. Baked Seafood (RM10.90) – my girl ordered this is and from the first scoop of it, it’s noticeable that the dish is rich with cheese. I mean REALLY RICH. It’s like you’re having pieces of seafood in cheese >.< but I wonder why didn’t they served it with (garlic) bread instead it was served with French fries and veggies.

For desserts, ABC Special (RM4.00) for my girl and Peach Banana Split (RM6.90) for me

As for the drinks my girl ordered a (so-so) Peppermint Paddy (RM7.90) and Mango Pimlico (RM4.90) – more of a dessert than a drink – for me. Sorry no images of those. Oh, and they charge RM0.50 for iced/warm water.

So all and all, the food is nice, the environment is nice and the price also nice. I would suggest this shop you to give it a try. Keep in mind that even though I mention that some of the food is not really nice, it is only based on our taste buds and well u still have more than 200 choices to choose from >.<