THE RECOGNISED “HONG XUAN” AUTHENTIC CHINESE DIM SUM RUNNING ON THE MIDDLE SOUTHERN NATION @ MELAKA
“Chinese Dim Sum” is all the while among the chinese’s traditional authentic bite-sized eateries commonly served in steamed, deep fried or stir fried which being practised since centuries, also the local’s favourite kind of selection to be easily found everywhere on our nations carried on respective home recipes on the ground. Here on the middle southern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended Chinese Dim Sum Restaurant “Hong Xuan” running right on the World Heritage City of Malacca having great positive response from the market recently.
The Malacca local originated Mr. Lim Ken Sian (born 1995), was the initial founder and also the recent immediate sole owner of this best recognised Chinese Dim Sum Restaurant “Hong Xuan” along the Malacca township presenting their Lim family’s 2-generations handmade dim sum eateries to the locals & visitors all under a roof in an manner environmental dining condition on the middle southern ground at Malacca.
The founder cum owner Lim Ken Sian, who at his age of 29 years old currently, was formerly an Software Engineer being touched the chinese dim sum field at his only 10th of age helping parents whose running their family dim sum eating house at Malacca since the early 1990s inspired Ken Sian to have his vision to step into the career at his teenage before further his studies/education at Kuala Lumpur, then returned to hometown at his 26th of age practically experienced the field thoroughly fully stepped into the f&b industry in the year of 2021 stayed in his family’s dim sum eating house with his patience.
With experiences & recipes on-hand, added with vision to have his very own dim sum restaurant locally and wishing to further his exposure in the field. Also foreseeing the market opportunity in the f&b industry especially the chinese dim sum field enabled Lim Ken Sian decided then successfully established his very first owned Chinese Dim Sum Restaurant officially named the “Hong Xuan Dim Sum” along the Jalan Ong Kim Wee in mid of year of 2023 serving all their signatures to the public in manner. And finally being recognised among the best in town by the Malaysian F&B E-Media for the year of 2024 on the middle southern nation at Malacca.
In this Hong Xuan Dim Sum Restaurant, the owner’s very first top recommended among their steamed dim sum selections will be their famous “Prawn Siu Mai” which most wanted by their regulars that served after 12 minutes in-house steamed on daily fresh basis handmade fillings of local fresh pork, water chestnut & sea prawn with home seasonings will always bring the wonderful texturing bites with pork’s & prawn’s freshness combination kind of streamed dim sum eatery into mouth that you must have a try when reached Malacca.
While in the Chinese Bun (Bao) selections, their signature “Golden Salted Egg Yolk Bun” which commonly served either in steamed or deep fried (on customer’s preference) always among their customers favourite. Daily fresh handmade chinese bun/bao fillings with their home seasonings in mixture of salted egg yolk paste into fresh milk, finally served hot on table after about 5 minutes home-steamed will brings the excellent soft bun’s bites itself with tasty creamy exploding salted egg yolk bun eatery that you will neither found the same elsewhere in town here. For those who like crispy bun’s bites should try their Fried Golden Salted Egg Yolk Bun that cannot aside here.
Another will be their special homemade “Big Pork Bun”, which also among the restaurant’s daily selection among the steamed chinese bun menus. Also daily fresh handmade huge-size chinese bun/bao fillings with their overnight marinated local fresh minced pork, sengkuang, spring onion & chicken egg into slight chinese rice wine, then served hot after 15 minutes steamed will brings the excellent bun’s bites with elegant smooth rice wine swallowed mixture into mouth that you will never regret after tasted here.
Other than their bite-sized dim sum and chinese bun eateries, the owner also introduced their home-steamed “Prawn Rice Roll” to be served in a minute steamed with hand-rolled chee cheong fun (rice roll) fillings of fresh sea prawn, toppings of chopped spring onions, white sesame seeds & fried shallots with home-mixed tasty soy sauce broth sided of sambal paste will always the best matching here. Also their crispy bites “Bean Curd Shrimp” which prepared hand-rolled with dried beancurd sheet fillings of shrimp & fish paste mixture that you will like it after tasted.
Nonetheless, the owner also introduced their all time favourite recommended “Stir Fried Radish Cake” which always wanted by their visitors from the beginning. Homemade radish cake prepared in cube/dice pieces, stir-fried with their nice fair spicy dried shrimp sambal chili paste into mixture of dried raddish, beansprouts, chicken egg & garlic will always the best combination in taking their savoury tasty Stir Fried Radish Cake eatery that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Chinese Dim Sum Restaurant “Hong Xuan Dim Sum” on the historical city of Malacca.
HONG XUAN DIM SUM
Address: No. 47-G & 47-H,
Jalan Ong Kim Wee,
75300 Melaka.
Business Hours: 6:30am to 1:45pm (Daily)