Peking duck: A chef prepares Peking duck
for Yam Cha at the Pearl Chinese Restaurant.
(JP/Tifa Asrianti)
Want to experience a Cantonese-style breakfast? Come to the Pearl Chinese restaurant at the JW Marriott Hotel and you will find a wide array of Cantonese delicacies known as Yam Cha. Every Sunday guests enjoy Yam Cha, a Cantonese-style breakfast that offers various kinds of dim sum and other specialties. One can begin Yam Cha with deep fried, steamed or boiled dim sum brought fresh from the kitchen.
Yam Cha, literally meaning "to drink tea", refers to the custom of eating small servings of different foods while sipping tea in Cantonese-areas of southern China. It is an integral part of the culinary culture of Guangdong province, Hong Kong and Macau.
Yam Cha is also a morning ritual for the elderly, who spend a good part of their morning sipping tea after early morning exercises.
In other cities, Yam Cha is a tradition on weekend mornings when the whole family gathers to chat, eat dim sum and drink tea.
Dim sum is normally served as three or four pieces in one dish. It is customary to order as a family, sharing dishes among all members of the dining party. Because of the small portions, people can try a wide variety of food.
The tea is also important, as it is said to help with digestion.
If a friend invites you out to yam cha, allow plenty of time to enjoy it since it's not to be rushed. It's a great way to spend a Saturday or Sunday morning. With this Yam Cha event, friends and families can gather and spend more time together during breakfast.
The Pearl Chinese restaurant serves the usual dim sum courses such as siew mai (dim sum with meat, shrimp and crab filling), ha kau (dim sum with shrimp filling), lo mai gai (a kind of rice dumpling), kuo tie (dim sum with meat, shrimp and mushroom filling), shrimp dumplings and bean curd skin rolls.
Pearl also serves specialties such as Scoobe Doobe (deep fried man tau), abalone siew mai and shark fin dumplings. In addition to dim sum, Pearl provides a buffet consisting of Peking duck, drunken shrimp, congee porridge, shark fin soup and a noodle station.
Drunken shrimps are fried shrimps marinated with ginger juice, and congee porridge is rice porridge mixed with toppings such as scallops, salted duck eggs, tofu, meat, chicken and salted turnips.
The restaurant also sets up cooking stations during Yam Cha so that guests can see the chefs prepare the meals. At several stations, guests can even ask for a special flavor or topping to fit their taste.
Besides the food at the stations, guests can also order crab with black pepper sauce, beef with black pepper sauce and prawn mayonnaise. To complete the Yam Cha experience, there is always a crepe station as well.
The tables are cleared at 3 p.m., but the warm feeling of a Yam Cha breakfast lingers.
Copyright © 2008 The Jakarta Post
January 25, 2009
CHINA: It's Sunday - It's Yam Cha Time for the Elderly
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JAKARTA, Indonesia / The Jakarta Post / On The Town / January 25, 2009
By Tifa Asrianti
Peking duck: A chef prepares Peking duck
for Yam Cha at the Pearl Chinese Restaurant.
(JP/Tifa Asrianti)
Want to experience a Cantonese-style breakfast? Come to the Pearl Chinese restaurant at the JW Marriott Hotel and you will find a wide array of Cantonese delicacies known as Yam Cha. Every Sunday guests enjoy Yam Cha, a Cantonese-style breakfast that offers various kinds of dim sum and other specialties. One can begin Yam Cha with deep fried, steamed or boiled dim sum brought fresh from the kitchen.
Yam Cha, literally meaning "to drink tea", refers to the custom of eating small servings of different foods while sipping tea in Cantonese-areas of southern China. It is an integral part of the culinary culture of Guangdong province, Hong Kong and Macau.
Yam Cha is also a morning ritual for the elderly, who spend a good part of their morning sipping tea after early morning exercises.
In other cities, Yam Cha is a tradition on weekend mornings when the whole family gathers to chat, eat dim sum and drink tea.
Dim sum is normally served as three or four pieces in one dish. It is customary to order as a family, sharing dishes among all members of the dining party. Because of the small portions, people can try a wide variety of food.
The tea is also important, as it is said to help with digestion.
If a friend invites you out to yam cha, allow plenty of time to enjoy it since it's not to be rushed. It's a great way to spend a Saturday or Sunday morning. With this Yam Cha event, friends and families can gather and spend more time together during breakfast.
The Pearl Chinese restaurant serves the usual dim sum courses such as siew mai (dim sum with meat, shrimp and crab filling), ha kau (dim sum with shrimp filling), lo mai gai (a kind of rice dumpling), kuo tie (dim sum with meat, shrimp and mushroom filling), shrimp dumplings and bean curd skin rolls.
Pearl also serves specialties such as Scoobe Doobe (deep fried man tau), abalone siew mai and shark fin dumplings. In addition to dim sum, Pearl provides a buffet consisting of Peking duck, drunken shrimp, congee porridge, shark fin soup and a noodle station.
Drunken shrimps are fried shrimps marinated with ginger juice, and congee porridge is rice porridge mixed with toppings such as scallops, salted duck eggs, tofu, meat, chicken and salted turnips.
The restaurant also sets up cooking stations during Yam Cha so that guests can see the chefs prepare the meals. At several stations, guests can even ask for a special flavor or topping to fit their taste.
Besides the food at the stations, guests can also order crab with black pepper sauce, beef with black pepper sauce and prawn mayonnaise. To complete the Yam Cha experience, there is always a crepe station as well.
The tables are cleared at 3 p.m., but the warm feeling of a Yam Cha breakfast lingers.
Copyright © 2008 The Jakarta Post
Peking duck: A chef prepares Peking duck
for Yam Cha at the Pearl Chinese Restaurant.
(JP/Tifa Asrianti)
Want to experience a Cantonese-style breakfast? Come to the Pearl Chinese restaurant at the JW Marriott Hotel and you will find a wide array of Cantonese delicacies known as Yam Cha. Every Sunday guests enjoy Yam Cha, a Cantonese-style breakfast that offers various kinds of dim sum and other specialties. One can begin Yam Cha with deep fried, steamed or boiled dim sum brought fresh from the kitchen.
Yam Cha, literally meaning "to drink tea", refers to the custom of eating small servings of different foods while sipping tea in Cantonese-areas of southern China. It is an integral part of the culinary culture of Guangdong province, Hong Kong and Macau.
Yam Cha is also a morning ritual for the elderly, who spend a good part of their morning sipping tea after early morning exercises.
In other cities, Yam Cha is a tradition on weekend mornings when the whole family gathers to chat, eat dim sum and drink tea.
Dim sum is normally served as three or four pieces in one dish. It is customary to order as a family, sharing dishes among all members of the dining party. Because of the small portions, people can try a wide variety of food.
The tea is also important, as it is said to help with digestion.
If a friend invites you out to yam cha, allow plenty of time to enjoy it since it's not to be rushed. It's a great way to spend a Saturday or Sunday morning. With this Yam Cha event, friends and families can gather and spend more time together during breakfast.
The Pearl Chinese restaurant serves the usual dim sum courses such as siew mai (dim sum with meat, shrimp and crab filling), ha kau (dim sum with shrimp filling), lo mai gai (a kind of rice dumpling), kuo tie (dim sum with meat, shrimp and mushroom filling), shrimp dumplings and bean curd skin rolls.
Pearl also serves specialties such as Scoobe Doobe (deep fried man tau), abalone siew mai and shark fin dumplings. In addition to dim sum, Pearl provides a buffet consisting of Peking duck, drunken shrimp, congee porridge, shark fin soup and a noodle station.
Drunken shrimps are fried shrimps marinated with ginger juice, and congee porridge is rice porridge mixed with toppings such as scallops, salted duck eggs, tofu, meat, chicken and salted turnips.
The restaurant also sets up cooking stations during Yam Cha so that guests can see the chefs prepare the meals. At several stations, guests can even ask for a special flavor or topping to fit their taste.
Besides the food at the stations, guests can also order crab with black pepper sauce, beef with black pepper sauce and prawn mayonnaise. To complete the Yam Cha experience, there is always a crepe station as well.
The tables are cleared at 3 p.m., but the warm feeling of a Yam Cha breakfast lingers.
Copyright © 2008 The Jakarta Post
