Celebrate the Lunar New Year 2025 with comforting classics at Ming Palace in Corus KLCC

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with comforting classics at Corus KLCC's Ming Palace, where a head chef with three decades of experience promises time-honoured tradition.

Ming Palace's Lunar New Year Menu showcases fresh ingredients with house-crafted sauces, with sets of RM1,688++, RM1,888++  and RM2,088++ per table of ten patrons.

Expect highlights like Steamed River Patin Fish, sourced fresh from local rivers on the morning of the meal; Hong Kong-Style Charcoal-Roasted Sesame Garlic Chicken;  available now until 13 February 2025.

For reservations and enquiries, WhatsApp 012-285-3280

Watch our video above on the Lunar New Year menu!

The RM1,688++ set kicks off with the Three Delightful Combinations of Char Koay, Steamed Chicken Dumpling and Chicken Roll, which can be substituted with Salmon Yee Sang, featuring salmon sashimi with a refreshingly fruity sauce blended with apples, strawberries, pineapple, peach and plum. Fun fact: Ming Palace's Yee Sang is naturally vibrant, completely free of artificial colouring.

The Braised Dried Scallops and Seafood in Crab Meat Soup is hearty and soulful, savoury with the rich sweetness of scallops and seafood, brimming with tender chunks of seafood for a beautifully briny bite that everyone will enjoy.

The Hong Kong-Style Charcoal-Roasted Sesame Garlic Chicken is a succulent show-stopper, lusciously lip-smacking with a richness to relish. The secret is in the execution - the chicken is prepared confit-style, slow-cooked in its own fat before being roasted.

The Steamed River Patin Fish in Superior Soy Sauce is captivatingly large and moist, flaky and clean-tasting, as fresh as possible - the fish is still swimming in the morning of each meal!

The Traditional Style Wok-Fried Tiger Prawns with Honey-Glazed Supreme Soy Sauce showcase buoyant, bouncy prawns with a brawny bite, confidently complemented by a nectarous sauce with a nice umami.

The Steamed Abalone and Shiitake Mushrooms with Iceberg Lettuce harness the aromatic allure of abalone, perfectly partnered with top-tier shiitake mushrooms, mouthwatering with a fleshy chew, smoothly soaked in a strikingly robust sauce.

  
Fried rice fans will revel in the Honey-Glazed Shrimp and Fish Roe Fried Rice, with fine grains tossed with chicken char siu, its glazed meatiness harmonising with seafood flavours.

Conclude with the Chilled Double-Boiled Red Dates, Lotus Seeds and Lily Bulbs with Snow Fungus, a light, reviving dessert that's cooling to counter the season's hot, humid weather.

Ming Palace, Corus KLCC
Persiaran Hampshire, Jalan Ampang, 50450 Kuala Lumpur.

Clato, Taman Tun Dr Ismail

TTDI’s new Clato tempts us with the classic touch of a Parisian morning cafe, featuring French favourites with the flag of Champagne-Ardenne clinging to the skylight.

Clato’s takes on baked eggs a la Florentine, beautifully runny with spinach and mushrooms, plus toasts and pancakes layered with French butter and homemade blueberry jam make for a soothing start from 7am to 1pm, with piano jazz tinkling on the speakers.

Live sax performances are in the works for weekends at Clato, housed on the upper level of Delia Wines Bistro.

Surreal, Kuchai Lama

Not an illusion: Surreal is Kuchai Lama’s new cafe for whimsy and wonder, complete with a memorable mural that summons the spirit of Salvador Dali.

Surreal serves up pleasant surprises like the Hotate Paitee, a playful remake of the Peranakan classic, plopped with butter-poached scallops, propped by pickled beetroot sengkuang.

While hearty-sounding pastas, risotto and rice bowls loom large on the menu, Surreal also offers a light, wholesome touch with triumphs like the Avocado Tartare, brightened with tomato salsa and balsamic vinaigrette on sourdough slices, and the Coconut Green Soup, robust with kale, apple, celery and cilantro oil.

Surreal is the sibling of Bukit Jalil’s kombucha-loving Scoby Cafe; fermentation remains in its DNA, thanks to a tangy pineapple tepache sweetened with brown sugar and cinnamon. The cafe is a late riser, opening only at noon, too late for those of us who shun caffeine after 12pm, but the taro latte with oat milk and quince cooler with mint make for a satisfying escape from reality.