✍️ 6 Jan 2024. Looking for breakfast in Johor Jaya, tried to look for a new goodie foodie spot which I can share with you. By the time I ran out of fuel reserve (i.e. feeling famished), I couldn't find anything new. At that moment, I was right at Gui Yuan Dim Sum.
Gui Yuan was one of my first articles in Johor Kaki way back in Jan 2012. I came back a few times since and saw that their business was growing, but I never updated that old article.
More than ten years on, I think the time is ripe.
It's a typical Friday morning. Every table was taken with folks having breakfast.
People still come in groups, in MPV loads. Maybe groups is the best way to enjoy dim sum and / or the easiest solution for a group breakfast. There is something for everyone.
But, I was alone and can only have one big bao and a fried carrot cake.
The steamy hot bao came slightly opened, which is a good sign.
The snowy white skin was a thick, puffy, fluffy, airy, gently sweetish.
Inside it was filled with well marinated minced pork and mushroom. Tastes savoury sweet with more sweetness from the puffy skin. Delicious.
The amount and quality of pork filling was average but okay for the price of RM6.
Ordered the carrot cake on impulse when I heard the next table asked for it.
Actually, a little disappointed that it was the browned deep fried type, not the white soft pan fried type 😕
Turned out, I was pleased with this as while the outside was a bit stiff as expected, the inside was soft-tender like a soft-firm paste with savoury sweet taste. Price RM6.50.
They still use that iconic Kampung Koh garlicky chili sauce. Nothing very special lah, but it is part of our lives for decades and feel good whenever it is around when we eat 😌
Enjoying the steamy action from my perch.
Come again? Can lah, if I am famished and passing by.
Restaurant name: Restoran Gui Yuan 桂苑港式點心茶樓
Address: 27, Jalan Dedap 8, Taman Johor Jaya, 81100 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
Tel: +6012 723 5560
Hours: 7 am - 12 pm (Tues off)
Written by Tony Boey on 6 Jan 2024
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✍ 15 Jan 2012. Gui Yuan is a popular coffee shop in Taman Johor Jaya, Johor Bahru well known for its good and reasonably priced tim sum. Business is brisk at Gui Yuan and there are constant waves of customers flowing through, especially on weekends.
Gui Yuan’s main draw is its freshly steam cooked tim sum at highly affordable prices. At Gui Yuan, the tim sum are made using fresh ingredients and is steam cooked only when an order is received. The food tastes better than in those places that merely uses steam to reheat pre-cooked tim sum.
I love the atmosphere here. The many families with young and old bonding over their traditional breakfast, gives the place a feeling of warmth and peace despite the din from the crowd and passing traffic.
Even though the tim sum is freshly steam cooked, waiting time is only about 15 minutes, even during peak hours. The shop has many steaming stations operating at the same time and many enthusiastic school boys working the tables on weekends.
Chili pepper with plump fresh fish filling. One of my favourites.
Steamed pork ribs seasoned with fermented black bean paste. Fresh and tasty.
Brinjal (eggplant) with fresh fish fillings.
Steamed deep fried chicken feet. The chicken feet are well marinated, deep fried, braised and then steamed. The skin is soft, and the tendons and cartilage are tender yet crunchy. A hot seller.
Steamed shrimp dumpling (har gaw). The shrimp is not ocean fresh but still good.
Siew Mai made of minced shrimps and pork, and topped with a dab of crab roe.
Each basket of tim sum costs RM3 to RM3.30 (2012 price).
Gui Yuan is an excellent tim sum shop where we can enjoy traditional Cantonese styled breakfast to our heart’s content, without burning a hole in our pocket.
I will be back to try out the other items on offer, and to soak in the cheery atmosphere.
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Restaurant name: Restoran Gui Yuan
Address: 27, Jalan Dedap 8, Taman Johor Jaya , 81100
GPS: 1.540073,103.805196
Hours:and (closed on Mondays)
Hours:
Non Halal
Date visited: 15 Jan 2012
Date visited: 15 Jan 2012
yes we (group of 6) just visitedon 30-6-12
ReplyDeletegui Yuan Tim sum Very Good
thank you for your recommendation
Hrs: 6-12pm
ReplyDelete830pm-1230am
Close on monday night and Tuesday morning
Thank you for the information.
DeleteShould've try their lo mai kai 糯米鸡! best!! And their char siew bao & dai baoo
ReplyDeletethe dimsum there quite okay, but the staffs attitude are bad......
ReplyDeleteA lot of young boys working here hahahahaha
ReplyDeletehave they shifted?
ReplyDeleteLast went 13th April 2018. Standard dropping and price are ranged around RM4.80 to RM6. The only selling point is the price are cheaper than Singapore, other than that, nothing much to mention about.
ReplyDeleteThe uncle also have an "attitude", the other dim sum place recommended in this post, most of them are better than this shop now, just my 2 cents.
It’s one of those chilli sauce tat somehow goes well with dim sum in MY….😅😅
ReplyDeleteActually this garlic chili sauce, this brand is my first experience for it.
ReplyDeleteBefore that. Was only maggi Chili sauce.
And I remember vividly, I had when I was in Setiawan. And we use to pack it when we travel up north when I was a kid. While visiting relatives there.
Probably more than 35 years ago already…
Maybe can find out was this the original garlic chili sauce. Because there wasn’t anyone I had before then..
U remember last time carrot cake use to have Cai poh n fried 葱头 inside
ReplyDeleteFond memories of this chilli sauce: I used to see my uncle arriving in his big lorry, and my late father helped distribute it in Kota Tinggi. Then, my dad would have me carry the chilli sauce— a dozen tied together with a raffia string at the bottle's neck— going from sundry shops to coffee shops.
ReplyDeleteMy uncle is the founder of A1 Kg Koh Sos Cili. His business puts all my cousins to a very good education. Ultimately my uncle sold the business as none of his kids were keen to inherit it. Such is life.
It used to be a very small manufacturing facility whereby I would purchase a dozen bottles for distribution to friends and family those days.
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