Flavours that just 'jockey' for position

Until Wednesday, the Mayflower Chinese restaurant of Dusit Thani Bangkok gives you a chance to appreciate a traditional flavour of Cantonese-style dim sum, created by guest chef Chung Kwai Chiu and his team from the Hong Kong Jockey Club.

Chung has 25 years of experience cooking in several five-star hotels in both China and Japan, among them the Shanghai JC Mandarin and the Peninsula Palace in Beijing.
For the “Chinese Golden Basket” promotion, he is presenting a selection of 20 of his best-selling meat dishes and desserts from the Jockey Club, a popular hangout for Hong Kong celebrities for decades.

All of prepared with local ingredients and fresh vegetables direct from the Royal Project but according to Cantonese recipes. The dim sum are made of thin rice paper and filled with seafood and pork.

“We focus on the original taste of ingredients, which is different from the Thai kitchen where much of the food is flavoured with oyster sauce, says Chung. “Presentation is all important too, so we try and offer our cuisine as an artwork.”

Prices range from Bt100 to Bt240 per a tray and among the highlights is fried sticky rice in a snowball shape stuffed with pork, dried shrimp and mushroom and aromatic baked puffs filled with champignon and cheese, topped with sliced almonds.

Other must-try menus are soft, baked dumplings stuffed with chopped spring onion, chive, Yunnan ham and topped with sesame, scrumptious steamed cuttle fish dumplings with spring onion in wasabi sauce and steamed shrimp dumplings with asparagus and carrot.

Also on the menu are crispy deep-fried taro puffs with assorted seafood, steamed assorted seafood dumplings with morel mushroom in a delicious soup and steamed glutinous rice with dried scallops and assorted meat, wrapped with a lotus leaf.

For something more substantial, try crystal prawns in spicy sauce for Bt700 or sauteed snow fish served with Hong Kong noodles in sweet black Chinese sauce for Bt500 then wrap up the meal with Ceylon jelly with assorted fresh fruits for Bt180 and smooth baked egg tarts for Bt120.

DELICIOUS DUMPLINGS
Mayflower is on the ground floor of Dusit Thani Bangkok. It’s open daily from 11.30am to 2pm for lunch and 6pm to 10pm for dinner. For reservation, call (02) 200 9000 extension 2799 or visit www.Dusit.com.