Yay! Nomsdotcoms is now officially one year old!!! It’s been a while since our last post because we are now third years and unfortunately there aren’t as many opportunities to go around and eat and write posts. BUT! We will try our best to keep on blogging about food every week so don’t go anywhere!
Anyway, over the winter break, Kev and I took a trip to Malaysia and Singapore to visit my family and needless to say, our vacation was filled with food and great company!! So, for the next few weeks, we will blog about our trip there and the different types of foods we had.
This is a picture of dim sum. Note that there are quite a few people sitting around the table and there aren’t exactly a focused picture of one dish. That is exactly how dim sum is! There is no time to just sit down and slowly take a picture of food or else you will have nothing to eat. Dim sum is basically what many Chinese have for breakfast or brunch on weekends. It’s similar to tapas where you usually would order multiple dishes instead of just having one entree. It is usually a variety of sweet and savory foods that are prepared in several ways! Fried, steamed, stir fried, braised… You name it!
What is special about this restaurant is that they don’t have servers. They have people busing the tables after you finish but no servers. You basically grab a tray and walk up and pick out what you want, very similar to a buffet. And then at the end, you will hand them a bill sheet where they will stamp the items that you had picked out so that you can be billed later. It is so self service oriented that you have to go to a designated area in order to fill up your pot with hot water for tea! This is because during the weekends, they have so many customers, the restaurant gets too crowded to push carts through the tables. On weekdays, they have a more traditional style dim sum where there are steam carts with the food on it and it comes to you. Regardless of the way it is served, it is usually a pretty fast paced environment where you get served fast, and you eat fast (mainly because you are hungry and can’t resist the food). I personally think that everyone should at least try dim sum once because it is definitely an experience to remember.
By the way, here is a picture of Kev and I at Melaka:
We were in front of a fountain that paid tribute to Queen Victoria which was built during British colonial time. Melaka is the oldest city in Malaysia founded in 1377. It’s known for it’s historic buildings and culture which is a mix of Portuguese, Dutch and British architecture.
