HONG KONG DIM SUM CREATIVITY
Mr. Kelvin Ooi Wey Boon who origin from Kota Sarang Semut, Kedah is the founder and recently the owner of the famous “Great Taste Hong Kong Dim Sum” which located at Subang Jaya USJ.
Mr. Kelvin who have great interst in eatery initially stepped into the food and beverage industry since the year of 2001 at his age of only 15 years old, he worked himself as a part timer hotel waiter in the Sentosa Regency Hotel Alor Setar, Kedah during his off from his school. After his secondary school education, a counselling lecturer ‘Puan Cheam’ who strongly advise Kelvin to explore in the hospitality industry and finally he grapped a great chance to further expose his experience and knowledge in the industry by recruiting himself into a Hospitality Training Course Academy at Kuala Lumpur in the year of 2003. After his training and practical graduated from the ‘Putrajaya Marriott Hotel’, he got himself joined the ‘Putrajaya Summer Palace’ as waiter initially at his age of about 18 years old and promoted to become supervisor after 3 years and further exposed to promoted into managementn team after another 2 years after he finish his Diploma in Business Management.
Never aside from his cooking potential, Kelvin learnt his chinese dim sum experience from Mr. Cheah and Mr. Lim (his master) who are the main chef in the hotel. In the year 2010, accompany with the great support towards him, Kelvin successfully established his very 1st owned dim sum restaurant named “Great Taste Hong Kong Dim Sum” at Subang USJ, Selangor with the partnership both his master Mr. Cheah and Mr. Lim and recently takeover the full ownership on the restaurant.
‘Dim Sum’ which are foods served to emperior family and became chinese traditional cuisine since thousand years ago. ‘Siew Mai’ which mainly made from pork and fresh prawn, and the ‘Ha Kao’ which made from mainly fresh prawn are the partner in Dim Sum family. Consequent from Kelvin creativity in his dim sum experience, he present the ‘Dumplings with King Soya Sauce’ which is one of the top recommended in the restaurant made from the mixed of fresh pork, shrimp and vege with his own recipe sauces.
Other, Buns or ‘Pao’ which also one of the chinese traditional main food cuisine since thousand years ago. Among the Pao choices, the ‘Buns with Custard & Salted Egg Yolk’ is the best selling in his dim sum corner. Nonetheless, those Lotus and Red Bean Buns which presented in Animation also the great creativity in the industry. While in the dessert corner, their Mini Egg Tart will be best recommended top selling by their regular visitors.
Location: No.1-1G, Jalan USJ 21/11,
47630 UEP Subang Jaya,
Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Business Hours: 7:00am to 3:00pm (Daily)
Comments (2)
Good dim sum ya…..i like them because this shop is all manage by all young people….cheers
Hi Kelvin, just to let you know that I like yr cha siew pau the most. The rest are all yummy too. Good idea to employ students give them a chance to earn some pocket money too. Hope the tips to yr waiter will encourage him to work hard like you. We are planning to celebrate Uncle Foo’s
birthday on the 22 March at yr restaurant. As usual thanks for allowing us to celebrate our b/days in the morning at yr
wonderful restaurant. Take care.