Dimsum is one of my favourite things to have on the weekend – but ever since moving to Cyberjaya, it has been difficult to find a non-halal version. Thankfully, the Hubs and I found a place called Dynasty Palace in Seri Kembangan, which is just 20 minutes away, so it looks like this is going to be our new breakfast spot!

The restaurant spans two shoplots on the ground floor, and the environment is cosy and clean. The decor is traditional Chinese, with red and black wooden screens and lanterns hanging from the ceiling. As with many Chinese restos, pictures of their menu items are plastered along the wall.

We came here twice before I got down to writing this, so here’s everything we ordered on our visits:

Look at that beautiful glisten on the shrimp chee cheong fun! The skin was a tad thick, but it was otherwise very satisfying – the intermingling of light, sweet soy sauce, the freshness of the shrimp, the chewiness of the rice flour.

One can’t go wrong with deep fried dimsum. I like that they have deep fried cheese and shrimp spring rolls, which are not so common on dimsum menus, since they’re more of a ‘fusion’ item. The version here are like golden parcels of perfection, with extremely crispy skin on the outside enveloping succulent, juicy shrimp on the inside with a melty cheese centre. The salad shrimp (foreground) is equally good.

Dynasty Palace steams items to order.

I was surprised to see that they have four items per basket as opposed to the conventional three. Since the prices are comparable to what you would get in other major cities like Puchong, you’re basically getting more bang for your buck.

We went for the usual suspects: pork and shrimp siu mai, the Hubs must-have aka char siew bao, and har gao (crystal shrimp dumplings). The siu mai leaned towards a stronger pork taste, but I could still make out the natural sweetness of the shrimp, elevated by the delicate egg wrapper and a pinch of salted egg on top.

Har gao was beautifully pleated and the crystal skin was not too thick. Best eaten with garlic chilli sauce!

The Hubs, the self-professed char siew bao connoisseur, gave this a thumbs up. Bao to meat ratio was balanced, the bread was fluffy, and the filling generous. I think they use a bit of fermented beancurd (fu yue) to the meat as it has a unique flavour which is almost herbal-like.

On our second trip, I switched it up by ordering a beancurd chee cheong fun, essentially two deepfried beancurd rolls wrapped in chee cheong fun skin. While it was decent, I was expecting the beancurd filling to be shrimp – it turned out to be fish paste, which was not to my liking. Not to say it was bad, just not what I expected.

The deep fried cuttlefish cakes again, subverted my expectations, but in a good way. I was expecting it to be more like a regular fish cake, but I could taste the mild sweetness of the cuttlefish. The texture was excellent as well.

Chinese New Year just ended a couple of weeks ago, so the restaurant is still offering a CNY favourite ie deep fried glutinous rice cakes (nian gao). These are not too sweet, and best eaten warm to enjoy the gooey texture.

Prices are quite affordable here (our meal for two on our first visit was about RM50+), considering the portions of the food and the ambience. Service has been good so far on both of our visits. If you’re interested to prep your own dimsum at home, they sell frozen packs of some of their items as well.

DYNASTY PALACE DIMSUM

 Olive Hill Business Park, 60, Jln BS 1/2, Taman Bukit Serdang, 43300 Seri Kembangan, Selangor

Opening hours: 8AM – 4PM (daily)

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