My Jaded Palate: Luk Yu Tea House

Luk Yu Tea House is quite an interesting looking restaurant among the many in the Feast Village in Starhill Gallery. As one steps onto the escalators from the ground floor down to the Feast Village, this restaurant is on the right below the escalators.

Restaurant entrance taken from the escalator leading up to the ground floor of Starhill Gallery

With grill looking wall panels of oriental chinese motifs, the place looking almost like a giant bird cage, which probably explains the empty bird cages hanging from the ceiling of the alfresco dining area as decors.

Gourmet dim sum of steamed crystal prawn dumpling, minced chicken and prawn dumpling, and minced chicken topped with strands of shark's fin dumpling was really good. Well flavoured and delicious, the prawns were fresh with crunchy, sweet flesh.

Deep-fried crispy beancurd skin roll with prawn and cheese was good. Warm crispy skin on the outside and large fresh prawns and chewy cheese filling. The crisp-fried chicken and yam spring roll was a little over-fried but nevertheless, tasty and not dry.

Century egg with chicken strips congee was quite smooth in texture (as many restaurants nowadays blend the porridge) and fragrant, though the century eggs were not all that smmoth and fine. Served hot, the congee was a warming meal for the stomach.