Having had no Dim Sum in Toms River New Jersey in the last couple months, I stuffed myself crazy this morning when I went to my most favorite local dim sum place that is under 15 minutes' drive from my home. I literally piled my table with my favorite Chinese breakfast buns (奶皇流沙飽 - Lai Wong Lau Sa Bao, which means sweet buns with runny milky eggnog sauce). These breakfast buns came in a dish of three per order. The chefs make only a limited number of these buns on Saturday and Sunday and they usually are sold out very fast. Once they are sold out, there won't be anymore until the next weekend. I love them so much I always brought more home. They keep well in the fridge for a few days and after warming up in the microwave for 12-15 seconds, they taste as good as fresh.
These mini size Chinese breakfast rolls taste a lot better than the cinnamon rolls because they aren't overly sweet. The sweetness is very well balanced. The runny milky eggnog sauce ran out every time I took a bite to brilliantly flavor the sweet buns inside my mouth. The buns are topped with delicious flaky crust topping (a mixture of flour, egg yolk, butter and sugar). They are always served fresh, right out of the oven and they have to be a little warm. I can eat these non-stop because they don't give me a sick and stuffy filling even after I eat many of them. But I usually try to limit myself to having only 3 a day. I usually eat them with tea or coffee for breakfast.
The first time I had buns similar to these was when I was visiting Macau, China in 2009. At a very beautifully decorated Dim Sum restaurant in the MGM hotel casino there, a very beautiful, tall and model-like waitress there highly recommended a new type of buns to me, which was different from the traditional Chinese steamed buns with pasty fillings. She said it was the best seller there. There, the buns were white with white flaky topping and the runny saucy filling was also snow white. They looked delicate and they tasted dynamically flavorful, light and heavenly. The buns at the MGM hotel in Macau were of course a lot better tasting than these buns here near my home. I doubt any Chinese restaurant in the USA can beat the Dim Sum restaurant at MGM in Macau. Then I started to hear the Dim Sum ladies at my local Dim Sum restaurant recommending these buns to me in 2011. Having missed the buns I had at MGM Macau, I was very happy to try. I loved them on first bite. These buns are very delicious even though MGM Macau has better.
Cutting isn't recommended when eating these buns because you don't want to lose the sauce filling. I always hold up the bun really close to my mouth and bite cautiously so as not to let the yummy saucy filling leak off the bun. I often just order take out to save 15% on tips, since I am a big spender on these yummy buns. P.S. there is another type of buns that look exactly like this but the filling is pasty and not saucy and runny. I much prefer the ones with the saucy and runny fillings because they taste many time more delicious than the other type. The Dim Sum ladies there always try to convince me to have the pasty kind when they sell out the saucy type.
Restaurant: Restaurant: PV Palace
Address: 2166 Pacific Coast Hwy, Lomita, CA 90717
Phone:(310) 326-3228
Hours: Friday 10:00 am – 9:30 pm
No comments:
Post a Comment