Great Delight Private Kitchen@Damansara Kim (CLOSED)

One day, my partner told me that Taipei Taipei@Damansara Kim has closed down and in its place there is a new Chinese Restaurant. He told me that we should visit to check them out.

Next door to Table & Apron

So one Saturday evening we dropped by for dinner at Great Delight Private Kitchen. The name is quiet a mouthful and I kept forgetting it, hence this snapshot of the sign. 

The interior screams "Chinese restaurant!!!" and this is the sort of place that suits my partner very well. I noted that the tables are mostly set for big groups and we were seated at a table set for four. There is more seating upstairs and as the evening progressed, more and more diners arrived and soon it was full house downstairs.

Browsing through the menu, there is a selection of pork, chicken, seafood, tofu, vegetables, noodles and fried rice. There is also a separate menu for wine. 

I saw some familiar dishes but I did not want to order those. Instead I wanted something new.

As usual, I was tasked with the ordering and these were my choices, though I may not remember the exact name of the dishes.

Pork Belly with Bentong Ginger. It was the Bentong ginger that made me choose this dish because I have never had Bentong ginger and I was curious.

I know that Bentong ginger is more expensive than regular ginger and from what I read, it has a higher level of spiciness. But when I ate this dish, I did not detect any remarkable strong ginger flavor even when I ate the ginger slices on their own. But still, this was a good dish and reminded me of Kris' Stir Fry Pork with Ginger and Scallions hee...hee...

Fried Chicken with Special Sauce. Well, it turned out that this is not fried chicken as I expected. But still, I enjoyed this dish and so did my partner. The sauce is thick with a punchy flavor and I detected the fragrance of bunga kantan (torch ginger flower).

This is a familiar soup with spinach and century egg. I ordered this because my partner was keen on it. We were wondering what those white things on the soup were and upon tasting, they turned out to be salted egg white. I suppose that is how they use up the whites when they use the yolks for those salted egg yolk dishes.

The soup base was light and did not have the stronger flavors  that I am more used to. 

Another vegetable dish is the Four Seasons. I have had this many times before elsewhere, just that I did not know that it was Four Seasons hah...hah... Or else I would have ordered something else. It was nice and crunchy.

When we ordered 4 dishes, the lady boss told us that 3 dishes would be enough. My partner asked her if the portion sizes were big and she said yes. But we were like, neh..... and sort of pooh poohed (in our heads of course) what she said. We assured her that we were good and could manage 4 dishes.

When the dishes were brought to the table, we realised that the lady boss was right when she said the portions sizes are big. But still ..........

heh...heh....heh..... If there was an extra bowl of rice, I would have tipped the rice into the leftover sauce of the Fried Chicken in Special Sauce and wiped that plate clean. Don't play play with this auntie.

My partner was all praises for the dishes and he was happy with this dinner. I guess we will revisit to try more dishes from the menu.