Travel&Spice: S01E09
Hola foodies/travellers! Presenting Episode-09 ofΒ Travel&SpiceΒ for yourΒ dose of spicy travel, where travellers share interesting stories about their favourite meal, restaurant or food encounters.
Today’s episode has a colourful twist. Raksha fromΒ The Roving Heart shares her Indonesian encounter with us.
Over to Raksha Rao:
I’m an engineer by profession and travel blogger at ‘The Roving Heart’ by passion. I love experiential travel, adventures and photography.
One of my favourite food experience involves savouring rainbow Chinese dim sum in Jakarta. It was in Crystal Jade Palace restaurant in Grand Indonesia Mall – an authentic Chinese upscale restaurant founded 20 years ago. It is now spread across 21 cities in 10 countries.
It is as much about the experience leading up to it as it is about the delicious dim sum.
Lucky for us, we had a Chinese friend along to guide us through. Ranging from black, white, pink, orange and yellow – the rainbow dim sums were meant to entice from the start. β each of the colors representing different meat ranging from pork, chicken and beef. I picked up my chopsticks trying to balance it with my right hand and my Chinese friend warned me not to cross the chopsticks. “It’s a serious offence”, she said.
Under her guidance, I pricked the dim sum with the chopstick and I sipped the soup when it flowed out of it. Then dipped the dim sum of the sauce and fried onion mix and gulped it in a single shot. Just how the Chinese would do it.
It was mouth-watering, to say the least.
Thanks for sharing your lip-smacking encounter with us. Guys, do check out her Instagram handle for more stories.
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Really nice and colourful… you must try them sometime π
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Raksha’s story is really interesting. Yes, she’s brave for sure π
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ooh I never knew that crossing chopsticks was offensive, I need to stop doing that! You are brave to try the different colored dim sum… I would probably not be so brave!
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OMG this looks awesome, I also LOVE Dim SUM, I bet it was delicious. Interesting post, as I have never seen colourful ones before.
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Oh, that’s interesting. I must try those too
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Hehe π Do try them
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I won’t deny I have seen these colourful dimsums before. But that doesn’t make them less devouring. Would definitely try it out when I am in Jakarta next time. Learnt about a rule while handling chopstick. I have been committing that offence from too long π
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They look delicious. When I was living in Xiamen, China, I found something similar — a Taiwanese restaurant chain offering different coloured soup dumplings. But the fillings were the same, so I think you win on this one…
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This is Raksha’s story.. but yes, I must give those a shot too.. Thank for the recommendation π Cheers!!
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Interesting that you tried these dimsum in Jakarta! You should have a shot at the authentic ones in Hong Kong – they’re absolutely delicious π
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hah! Well.. that was the intention… Thanks to Raksha for her wonderful food story π
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They certainly are colorful. The way you described the eating of the domain was certainly drool inducing.
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Sure does… π Can;t wait to try them soon β€
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That looks really cool!
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