Dim Sum@Kong Ming Kopitiam

Demona: Kong Ming dim sum is known to all Taipingites: "Pheng, Leng, Zheng!" Do not put high hopes on the dim sum's presentation, looks and ambience of the kopitiam. After all, it is PLZ. Cheap and good. You can't have it all. Certain aspects had to be comprimised.

However, after eating quality ($$$) dim sums in proper, air-conditioned restaurants, I did grew to appreciate and enjoy eating dim sums made by crafty, artistic dim sum chefs.

Kong Ming may lose badly in this aspect, but dozens of years of successful dim sum selling does not just happen because it is cheap, but also because it tastes fairly decent for its price.

Thank you Kong Ming dim sum chefs! For you have made me fall in love with your.........

CHAR SIEW PAO and SESAME LOTUS PASTE BALLS!



Demona: Supreme! Gigantic! Jaw Breaking! It is fairly big, slightly larger than a ping pong ball. It is thoroughly coated with sesame seeds and deep fried.



Demona: When you bit through it, your teeth would sink into a soft, sticky, sweet lotus paste ball wrapped with a glutinous layer of dough. Its look may be rougher than the ones you get in a decent dim sum restaurant, but hey.. one ball cost RM 0.60, what more can you ask for?



Demona: My MUST-HAVEs in Taiping.. KM's Char Siew Paos! A CSP enthusiast I am, of all the many places which I had tried CSPs, nothing can match up to KM's CSP besides Ming Room, of course!



Demona: The CSP here is quite different from the average ones (reddish, sweet sticky sauce with some small chunks of siew pao). Its meat are shredded into very, very thin slices mixed with brownish savoury sticky sauce, which is the key ingredient that made the CSP a bomb! RM 0.90 per pao.

Verdict: Nothing else best describes it but.. PHENG, LENG, ZHENG! Ask anyone that you know from Taiping, without a doubt he/she will know of KM. Char Siew Pao lovers out there, this is a MUST-TRY!