Celebrate a Bold Start to a Prosperous
New Year with GUINNESS®
It’s
all about black gold with GUINNESS®! Festive cheers are made more
luxurious and delicious with GUINNESS®, Malaysia’s favorite stout. Ushering in the
Year of the Goat, GUINNESS® is the perfect stout to be paired in the
festive Chinese banquet menus that many indulges for this festive season.
Going all out
with a delicious gesture, GUINNESS® is teaming up with Grand Imperial Group of restaurants
this festive year to create a special GUINNESS® Chinese New
Year Banquet Menu available at all
6 Grand Imperial restaurants across
Malaysia. Gourmands can now enjoy eight sumptuous courses paired with the rich
and flavoursome black gold GUINNESS®. Each course is carefully matched with GUINNESS® to bring out the full flavours from both dish
and stout.
Our preview of
the evening took placed at the Grand
Imperial Restaurant at Bangsar Shopping Centre with distinguished guests,
members of the media and bloggers. Our emcee of the evening was Owen Yap and
the evening took off with a special Chinese calligraphy presentation by Haze
Long. She was really so good because her calligraphy really had a unique and
artsy feel.
Hailing the
collaboration, Bruce Dallas, Marketing Director of , GUINNESS® Anchor Berhad, said “ GUINNESS® is known the
world over for its superb quality, rich taste, and proud traditions. It is a
beer Made of More – more flavour, more boldness, and made with passion and
dedication by our Master Brewers. As such, I can think of no better beer with
which to usher in this auspicious time of the year, when we gather with friends
and family to celebrate sau-kong and to look forward to beginning the New Year
in the best way possible.
By pairing with the Grand Imperial Group of
restaurants, renowned across Malaysia for its sumptuous food, GUINNESS® ensures that
you can begin the New Year in a bold and prosperous way while out to celebrate,
as well as in the comfort of your own home.”
Dinner commenced
with the Yee Sang with Silver Fish,
a unique take on the auspicious Yee Sang featuring crispy golden battered
silver fish. The Yee Sang here looks normal but the flavours and textures are
just so awesome! I have had many Yee Sangs and this one definitely is few on
top of my list of Yee Sang.
As we Lou Hei with our usual foodies, it was
the merriment of laughter and shouts of joy that made me feel that its great
company with good food that makes life feels so blessed!
The combo of
loads of fresh cut greens with cucumber, carrot, radish, pickled ginger, fresh
sour mangoes, pickled onions, jellyfish, pomelo, chicken floss, peanuts and
dressing is utterly tangy and so refreshing in each bite. Many of us raved
about this Yee Sang for its flavours. We polished off this dish with much
gusto!
The next course
had everyone at Hello! Our table was silent, as everyone enjoyed the lavish
bowl of Braised Bird’s Nest with Fresh
Crab Meat. Going eco-friendly, the restaurant still manages to amp up the
opulence of the feast with bird’s nest. Teaming up with fresh chunks of sweet
crab meat and speckles of truffles, the soup tasted just as majestic as it
sounds. The strong and earthy truffles worked well with the GUINNESS® if you asked me. It seemed to be the link
between the stout and the soup. We loved this course dearly…
A traditional
Chinese banquet meal cannot be completed without the ever popular and sought
after Roasted Whole Suckling Pig!
Ours was roasted to perfection, showing off super golden crackling with a luscious
note. Our table left nothing on the plate as we literally devoured every single
part of the suckling pig with loads of happiness. This course is pure 100% satisfaction
and went so well with GUINNESS®.
Classic Steamed Pomfret Traditional Style will always be a favorite this time of the
year. The highly prized pomfret is best savored steamed with superior soy sauce
as usual.
Our prawn course
was another luxurious pot of Fresh Water
King Prawns in Casserole. The aroma was heavenly and the prawns looked all
gloriously delicious coated in a sticky sweet and lightly spicy sauce. The
robust sauce deserves a bowl of steamed rice. The prawns came in different
sizes so some were cooked right and some were slightly over cooked. Other than
that, there were no complaints as the flavours of the sauce were good and
addictive while the prawns had a nice light note of sweetness.
Another highly
sought after seafood took form in Braised
Slice Abalone with Black Moss & Dried Oyster. This course is always a
favorite with the older generation as abalone considered a precious ingredient
that only the rich could afford. Slices of abalone together with braised dried
oysters, black moss, mushrooms, bean curd sheets and greens are drenched in the
classic brown abalone gravy. It’s prepared well but I happen to prefer other
dishes compared to this one.
Claypot Rice with Chinese Sausage & Dried
Meat Hong Kong Style is another
popular dish that never fails to be ordered by many during the lunar festive
season. The star of the pot is all the waxed and cured meat and sausages which
basically lends the aroma and flavour to the rice with the helping of a
flavoured soy sauce. It was certainly a generous helping of two types of
Chinese sausages, waxed duck and cured bacon. While the meat and sausages were gorgeous,
the rice fell short as it didn’t have enough flavours or crispy crusty bits
that I would normally love in this dish.
Dessert ended
with two types of Chilled Fresh Mango
Puree with Sago & Pomelo and Deep
Fried Nian Gao & Deep Fried Sweet Potato Pastries.
The Chilled Fresh Mango Puree with Sago and
Pomelo is fresh and bursting of the sweetness of the mangoes. With bits of
pomelo sacs and jellied sago, the chilled sweet dessert has always been a crowd
pleaser.
Deep Fried Nian Gao & Deep Fried Sweet
Potato Pastries completed the
evening feast on a really wonderful sweet note. Both are pretty good and
satisfied our sweet-tooth cravings well.
GUINNESS® New Year
Banquet Menu priced at RM1888
nett, available from January 13th until March 5th, and
includes two quarts of, GUINNESS® stout, as well as two sets of exclusive , GUINNESS® ang pow.
Additionally, between
5th January 2015 and 28th February 2015, consumers
throughout Malaysia may be in the running to win one of the 100 pure gold bars,
worth up to RM1 million, with any big bottle of GUINNESS®, Tiger, Heineken and Anchor by looking out for the winning bottle cap
liners and answering a few questions! Good luck…
GRAND
IMPERIAL RESTAURANT
3rd Floor, East Wing,
Bangsar Shopping
Centre,
285 Jalan Maarof,
Bukit Bandaraya,
59000 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03-2283 1118
GPS: 3.142808,
101.667448
