Salt baked Iberico ribs
The food at Gu Yue Tien is sexy.
Eat salt baked Iberico pork ribs with the fingers and tear away the tender, flavourful flesh with the teeth as the meat gently glides off the bone, leaving no prisoners.
Chew on the gelatinous skin of the steamed giant garoupa, and go weak in the knees. Float away into ecstasy as you inhale the heady aroma of dried scallops, crab meat and prawns in the luscious seafood soup.
Pick up the biggest prawn and reach for its head where the soft, orange roe beckons. Eat it like there’s no tomorrow. Repeat with the next biggest prawn. Monogamy is a dirty word.
And finally, there is something erotic about scooping out creamy egg yolk, liquid spilling over the edge of the egg shell as you lick up the sides, heart racing as the warm, almost congealed, rich pairing of egg yolk and foie gras brings you into a climax.
Gu Yue Tien deserves a standing ovation.
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Norwegian salmon yee sang – a twist on the traditional yee sang, this is a tangy salad made with coral lettuce, pear, pomelo, raisins, finely julienned kaffir lime leaves, and a strawberry sauce.
Gu Yue Tien soft boiled egg with foie gras – the key is to cook it without the egg white so that a richer product is achieved. Served with a sprinkling of black pepper.
A thick assorted seafood soup with crab roe
Salt baked Spanish Iberico pork ribs
Salt baked Spanish Iberico pork ribs
Steamed giant garoupa with minced ginger and yellow bean paste
Steamed glutinous rice with fresh water prawns and waxed meat
Prawn roe
Chilled mango cream with pomelo
Pan fried nian gao
In conjunction with the Chinese New Year celebration this year, the best chefs from 8 top Chinese restaurants in the Klang Valley have customised special Extravagant 8 menus, priced at RM888++ for a table of 8 – 10 (in the case of Gu Yue Tien), exclusively for Standard Chartered credit card holders. The menus are available from January 20 to February 17, 2011. More details on the restaurants, their offerings and T&Cs are available at the Standard Chartered website.
Thank you, Chef Frankie Woo Chee Way and Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia for this amazing meal.
Gu Yue Tien
Chulan Square
Jalan Raja Chulan
KL
Tel: 03-2148 0808
More reviews:
BabeinthecityKL
KYSpeaks
Iamthewitch
Haze (watch her beautiful video presentation)
Lionel
Aly
Note: This is the second of five reviews under the Standard Chartered Extravagant 8 campaign. The first review on Li Yen can be found HERE.
The food here is indeed sexy and so memorable 😉
Ooh! Them ribs sure are sexy… but not as sexy as a certain member of the royalty’s sweet melons and tarty lemons… *winks, winks*
And a Good Wednesday Morning to ya! 😀
So when’s the next round at GYT? *drool*
What’s all this sexy talk about food and all? I think you’ve been hanging out with Kenny Mah too much already.
But I have to agree that Frankie’s food is gorgeous!
babe_kl: Even more memorable since I got to share it with you and Hook. 🙂
LFB: Oi, pervert! ^_^ Good Wednesday morning to you too!
J: Hehe….soon, I hope! *checking bank balance*
alilfatmonkey: There can be only one Kenny Mah. 🙂 Yeah, his food is gorgeous AND delicious. *clap clap clap*
If there’s anything that captured my attention.. it’d be the first one… pork ribs!! Don’t know why but lately I felt very porky
leo: it’s to die for!
Will definitely be heading to GYT soon! Everything looked so gorgeously divinely delectable!
eeks, lap mei fan WITH sang har?!? i’ve never seen that combo before, but i’m thinking it’s sensational! don’t need yee sang, don’t need garoupa, don’t even need pork ribs … just gimme the sang har lap mei fan! 😀
Pureglutton: Yar, it’s worth a visit!
Sean: It’s the ultimate combo, especially when there’s so much creamy roe in those sang har. The lap mei is also good. Arghhhh. Thanks for reminding me. I could do with some NOW.
Reading the part about half boiled egg definitely sent me to climax – a gastronomy climax that is! 😛 And I certainly can’t forget the gorgeous iberico ribs… *sigh
iamthewitch: Yeah….the food was really good that night. I’m so tempted to go again, but must find 7 other people lah. 🙂
Holy moly! Did you write this the morning after you and BE…. ? 😉
That yee sang looks achievable here. Got recipe ar? 😀
gfad: write this after what, girl? after dinner ah? yes. that’s right. and no, no yee sang recipe. but i’m sure you can figure it out from the photo, rite? 😀
aiyohh i had to look at this now! so hungryyyy
did u see the video haze posted yet? check out the ending especially 😛
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbKEc64FSD8
KY: Yup, I saw it! The ending’s hilarious lah. I feel like an idiot. hehe. I linked Haze in this post, you blind bat.
im feeling o so sexy too just reading it. i cant imagine the ecstacy i will feel if consuming it 😀
eating chinese food from now onwards, having read your review, will never be the same experience again with your harlequin descriptions….. (swoon….)
Wah so nice. I always thought GYT is chinese food.
Yeah, indeed very SEXY shots. To hell with monogamy, no? 🙂
Yee sang should be served like this everywhere! No more of those weird plastic radioactive bits. And has strawberry sauce ever done any harm to anyone? I think not!!
Wow. looks like the chef is very creative in this restaurant. i guess now the chefs are on some creative competition with other chefs in other restaurants.
So hungry looking at all those delicious spreads! Gong Xi Fa Chai 🙂