OpenRice MakanVenture @ Imperial Pot, Solaris Dutamas, Publika

Just yesterday I was happily invited to my 2^nd OpenRice MakanVenture, the 1^st MakanVenture @ Plus One Shabu Shabu 1 Utama was a satisfying & enjoyable session, hence I had quite a lot of expectation on this wonderful food venture which was held at Imperial Pot, Solaris Dutamas, a restaurant which located at the far corner of block A1 Publika (upper ground level 1 facing the main road, above paparich to the left), specialise in creative Hong Kong Dim Sum & Tea Pot Soup.

 

Imperial Pot, Lot A1-UG1-03, Solaris Dutamas, No 1, Jalan Dutamas 1, 50480 Kuala Lumpur.

We were served some of their specialities which most of them passes creativity wise, wonderful plating & presentation. However if you’re looking for some heavenly taste HK dimsum, this isn’t really what you would be impress as most of them fall under the ‘decent’ category. The dish taste quite ordinary for a fusion dimsum restaurant as there is a lack of chemistry in the HK based food combination, nothing much really standout.

Classy interior & setting of Imperial Pot, Solaris Dutamas, Publika.

So here’s what we had..Menu of the night.

Quite disappointed as my highly anticipated Charcoal Grilled Skin Prawn Dumpling/灰姑娘虾饺皇 turn out to be unavailable =.=ll

Signature Tea Pot Soup/茶汤: Black Chicken, Ginseng Chicken, Yok Chok Chicken & Nutritious Herbal Pork, not outstanding in taste but the sense of herbs are strong & definitely good for health. (RM12.80/pot)

Nutritious Herbal Pork Tea Pot Soup

Ginseng Chcken Tea Pot Soup

Unagi Puff in BBQ Sauce/烧汁鳗鱼酥. Nice puff texture which is soft and creamy, a nearly melt-in-your-mouth sensation. This would be my recommendation dish. (RM 12.80/serving, 2 pcs)

Steamed Bah Kut Teh Soup Dumpling/Xiao Long Bau/肉骨茶小笼包. Nice filling of juicy meat in bak kut teh soup, the dumpling skin is slightly dry though. (RM 8.80/3 pcs)

Egg Custard Bun in Charcoal Grilled Skin/竹碳流沙包. Barely passes as the suppose-to-be liquid egg custard turn out to be scare & solid. (RM 6.80/3pcs) 

Deep Fried Avocado Roll with Crispy Silk Wrap/龙须牛油果. Quite crispy from the outside however the avocado filling are synthetically sweet, a very similar taste to a homemade pandan kaya. (RM 8.80/2pcs)

Enoki Mushroom Wrapped in Bacon/金包银. Nice aromatic dish upon serves. Surprisingly the chewy enoki mushrooms goes well with the smoked bacon as it balance up the bacon’s salty taste. (RM 7.80/3pcs)

Fresh Prawns in Organic Red Rice Roll/鲜虾红米肠. Pretty decent rice roll, however the deep fried crunchy texture & juicy fresh prawns makes it a worth trying dish. (RM 8.80/pcs)  

Despite the pale & ordinary food review, here’s something pretty interesting to spice things up :P.. Remember the phrase 'good things never last', well this is exactly the perfect phrase to describe my experience on the 2^nd OpenRice MakanVenture, don’t get me wrong as the folks from OpenRice & openricers attended the session are nice & lovely, we had a great time hanging out..  Disastrously the services of the restaurant & if not the attitude of the owner himself is a bummer. They has succeeded in taking food tasting to a ‘whole new level’ as among all those food tasting events that I had attended this is definitely THE MOST STINGY restaurant offering food review session! Now scroll back up to those lovely photos above, can you imagine that there were actually 4 of us who were ask to share all those ridiculously tiny portion of food?! (4 ppl with 3 xiao long bau, guess 1 of us would have to do a food review by eyes huh *jaw drops*) Still I’m thankful as they do provide scissors so we get to cut the Unagi Puff & Avocado Roll into pieces & everybody gets a bite.. Though I'm not the type of person who like to stuff myself with food while doing a food review, but since I would need to comment on those dimsum being serves I guess it isn't too much to have at least one piece of each for tasting right? -.-

Anyway still I thank OpenRice for the lovely gift & invitation, salute to the professionalism of you guys hosting the event with an empty stomach (Yes, EMPTY! seems that the restaurant forgot to serves their portion of dimsum *jaw drops again* =.=ll)

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Ok enough jaw drops, to be fair & putting aside the fact that the restaurant did not make it to my personal dimsum list due to it's low C/P index (Content/Price) & unpleasant dinning experience, still Imperial Pot is an option to be take into consideration if you happen to be in Publika & craving badly for some decent HK dimsum, perhaps you might get a wonderful dining experience when you’re actually paying for what you order. ^^ 

Rating: 5.9/10