Dim Sum-ing @ Ang Mo Kio

As we were growing up, my parents went to extreme lengths to get us to read the newspaper. It started off with a 50 cents reward, followed by a 50 cents punishment and then there were some nagging and berating here and there... but seriously what were they thinking? we were only 10! Comics would have worked wonders :)

Anyway 13 years down the road and I find myself snatching the newspaper from my dad. Nope, not any ordinary newspaper; it's the Sunday Lifestyle section woot~ I love Sunday Lifestyle as 30% of the papers involves food =D  In previous Sunday's edition, one of the journalist wrote about this cheap and good dim sum place at Ang Mo Kio Ave 1 Blk 340 and guess who suggested having Dim sum for breakfast? 

We had a hard time locating Blk 340 (I think HDB didn't put much thought when labelling the HDB flats). At first I was kinda skeptical as the shop seemed really small and there was no long dragon-liked queue (which is typically the case as Singaporeans love to join queues). Nonetheless, we went with our instincts and ordered the usuals.

Handmade Hong Kong Dim Sum @ AMK Ave 1

Our usuals included Siew Mai, Xiao Long Bao, Chicken Feet, Har Gao and Chee Cheong Fun. the Siew Mai tasted average, I mean how differently awesome can a siew mai taste? Not a fan of XLB but Jie did say it's not bad albeit skin alittle too thick. Mum and Dad sweared by the chicken feet. When probed further Dad commented that these chicken feet were smooth, tasty and juicy. Har Gao was normal too. I loved the CCF! the gravy had a good balance of sweet and savoury and the rice rolls were  uber smooth.

From Left Clockwise: Siew Mai, Xiao Long Bao, Chicken Feet, Har Gao and Chee Cheong Fun

I think service that day drained our energy and we were all hungry for more! 2nd round *ting ting*... I thought the Century Egg Roll tasted pretty good but I might have been deluded as it was my virgin experience with Century Egg Roll. The crystal dumplings were ok, nice combi of vege and meat. I didn't really eat the fried shrimp stuff at the bottom so no comments for that. The coffee bao was soft and fluffy but I found the coffee tao sar filling a tad too sweet. The filling was also lacking in coffee flavour as compared to the ones mum buys from her usual bao shop.

Left Clockwise: Century Egg Roll, Crystal Dumplings, Shrimp Dumplings, Coffee Bao

Other than the above mentioned, we also ordered the glutinous rice wrapped in leaves as well as Lo Mai Kai. The former was delicious! Flavourful sticky rice wrapped with succulent chicken.. yums. The Lo Mai Kai however wasn't up to standard as it was way too dry. I thought the char siew was a tad too salty. 

All in all, this place offers a cheap and relatively decent dim sum. I can't really benchmark this as I haven't been dim-suming enough but stay tune as I'm on a quest to check out Swee Choon Dim Sum and Victor's Kitchen.