Luk Yu Tea House
I simply love the charming open kitchen concept where diners can watch the chefs at work. You could wait for your food while watching the staff preparing dim sum using the bamboo steamers, chop vegetables and the chef doing his magic.
Despite it’s location right next to the escalator to the Feast Floor of Starhill, Luk Yu Tea House is surprisingly has a great ambient and is quite cozy. Step into the restaurant and you’ll feel that you have stepped into another world.
Open kitchen
Luk Yu Tea House offers typical Hong Kong dim sum, noodles and pots of hot steaming Chinese tea. There are ala carte dishes to go with rice too. But mind you, the dim sum here are a little more luxurious, with shark fin shreds, crab meat, scallop and abalone available, so naturally the price is double of what you could get outside.
The bunch of us were there for lunch so we did not order any ala carte dishes. I can’t stomach rice at lunch! While we took a look at the menu, the captain served placed the appetizer on the table. I was impressed with their excellent service. Everyone was very polite and friendly here.
The appetizer this time is a small plate of pickled vegetable which was good. Mom always cook this dish at home. It was sour and spicy, teasing our appetite. However, RM6.00 for the appetizer way too pricey!
Pan Cheong Fan
I was craving for Chee Cheong Fun and was happy to see that Luk Yu have quite a variety of Cheong Fun available. Instead of the normal Cheong Fun with prawn or char siew filllings, we decided to give the fried Cheong Fun a go. It was superb! The combination of it’s pancake like texture and as it was fried together with dry shrimp and green onion makes it even more savory.
Crabmeat noodle
The noodle’s portion isn’t very big. A plate is just enough for 4 person. We ordered 2 types of noodle since there were 6 of us. The first is the Crab Meat Noodle and the second, Village Tong Fun (glass noodle). Both were pretty good but personally i prefer the Tong Fun because it was very aromatic and tasted very much like fried Kuey Tiaw, only less oily. The Crab Meat Noodle was just ok.
Village Tong Fun
All of us have mix feelings about the Boat Porridge though. While Mr. Bf and i loved it, KidCheng and Kiat didn’t quite liked it. I must admit it’s a little light compared to normal porridge. But it had a slight flowery taste to it. Oh, well since the porridge contains squid, it’s not Blurryhunniee’s favorite.
Boat porridge
The dim sum comes in 4 pieces served in bamboo steamers. We had 2 of each dim sum of our choice.
My favorite is of course the Har Kau. The prawn was obscenely huge and very fresh hence super crunchy! Actually after this meal i conclude that anything with prawns at this restaurant is worth a try. LOL!
The scallop dumpling was not bad either although i had expected a bigger piece of scallop. Ha!
Har Kau
Scallop Dumpling
Other dim sum we had were the Shark Fin Dumpling and Siew Mai. The Shark Fin Dumpling comes with shreds of shark fin on top. Pretty good.
The Siew Mai was just average. Since the restaurant is Halal, the Siew Mai doesn’t taste as good without pork.
Shark Fin Dumpling
Siew Mai
Another must-have in any Chinese tea house is the Xiao Long Pau. Once again, due to the restaurant being Halal, the Xiao Long Pau doesn’t taste as good. The presentation is good, the texture is good but it lacks in the taste department. But still, it was decent enough.
Xiao Long Pau
After all the dim sum i was pretty full but Kiat being a typical guy couldn’t stop 
. So, we ended our meal with some egg tart, yam puffs and a dessert.
Egg tart
I liked the deep fried yam puff a lot. Very crunchy!
Yam puff
The mango sago was delicious. Besides mango puree and sago, the sweet dessert contains pamelo too. That explains the sweet and sour aftertaste. A perfect note to our meal.
Mango Sago
Pu Er Tea (Pot) – RM15.00
Har Kau x 3 – RM40.50
Xiao Long Pau x 2 – RM18.00
Siew Mai x 2 – RM27.00
Appetizer – RM6.00
Scallop Dumpling x 2 – RM27.00
Shark Fin Dumpling x 2 – RM24.00
Yam Puff/Plate – RM8.00
Egg Tart – RM6.00
Pan Cheong Fan – RM10.00
Boat Porridge – RM18.00
Village Tong Fun – RM26.00
Crabmeat E-Fu Noodle – RM29.00
Mango Sago – RM8.50
Total: RM302.45 (RM263.00 + RM26.30 service + RM13.15 tax)
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Luk Yu Tea House
Feast Floor, Starhill Gallery
181, Jalan Bukit Bintang,
Kuala Lumpur
Tel: +603-27823850
Business Hours:
10am to 1am daily
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