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Penang:All About Sugar and Gift Tang Yuan
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Tang Yuan is a Chinese food made from glutinous rice flour and it is a popular dish among Chinese. Usually Chinese will eat Tang Yuan once a year during Lantern Festival(冬至). Anyway, in Penang Georgetown, there is a restaurant which specialize in selling Tang Yuan. The name of it is All About Sugar & Gift(团圆汤圆甜品屋) . This outlet which with a simple and homely ambiance has different sweetened fillings of freshly prepared Tang Yuan made from glutinous rice in a variety of Tong-Sui(糖水).
Location
The restaurant is located at Lorong Susu of Georgetown, which is a one way alleys in the heart of Georgetown. It is just within walking distance to Town Steamboat Restaurant (火锅之家).
Background
All About Sugar & Gift was formed by a gang of friends, since around October of 2009. One of the owner, who is also the chef, is a specialist in preparing delicious Tang Yuan dishes even before running this business. Every time when there is a gathering, the owner will serves her friends with her new invention of Tang Yuan dishes and she manage to gain a lot of recognitions from them. Eventually, this gang of friends decided to start up a restaurant to share their delicious Tang Yuan dishes to more people.
Food
With more than 10 years of experience in preparing Tang Yuan and inventing new menu, the chef of All About Sugar & Gift able to provides forty to fifty kinds of Tang Yuan dishes. Different kinds of ingredients for example green tea, cheese, durian, Tiramisu, millet, white coffee, white wine, rose and many others can be their ingredients for Tang Yuan too.
The texture of Tang Yuan here is slightly chewier compare to others. Few of the signature Tang Yuan dishes here are their brown sugar Tang Yuan, sweet peanut cream Tang Yuan and the traditional colorful Tang Yuan in brown sugar soup based. Anyway there are many more creative Tang Yuan invention which cooked in different paste, or different fillings inside.
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Overall, All About Sugar & Gift(团圆汤圆甜品屋) is a nice restaurant for dessert and it is worth for customer to revisit it again. The price is average and the environment is also quite comfort. From a hot bowl of Tang Yuan soup, we can see not only the sincerity of a group of young people, but also their passion in achieving their dream.
Front view
The restaurant is located in a small street of Georgetown. It is quite easy to miss it.
Menu
The Chinese style decoration of the menu is quite nice. Able to give a good first impression to customer.
Brown Sugar Tang Yuan
The way they prepared it is quite special, which is a dry version of Tang Yuan eat with coconut powder.
Sweet peanut cream Tang Yuan
Taste great! The heated peanut soup which added with milk is very creamy and tasty.
Sweet black sesame cream Tang Yuan
Taste great too! Although not as creamy and sweet as the peanut cream Tang Yuan, the sesame cream Tang Yuan is healthier and with the special black sesame aromatic.
Tang Yuan inside
Each bowl of sweet black sesame cream Tang Yuan comes with a few Tang Yuan inside.
Colorful Tang Yuan
This is a traditional way to cook Tang Yuan. Different colors of Tang Yuan are cooked with black sugar soup, which recalls a lot of old days memory.
Brown sugar Tang Yuan
The nicely presented brown sugar Tang Yuan are coated with thick brown sugar. There are arranged in a circular form to represent reunion.
Coconut power
This coconut powder comes together with brown sugar Tang Yuan.
First step
Firstly, placed the Tang Yuan on the coconut powder.
Second step
Coat the Tang Yuan with coconut powder and you are ready to eat it.
Interior
Traditional Chinese style interior decoration.
Self-service sugar
Every table will have a bottle of sugar, for customer to add more sugar into their dessert if it is not sweet enough.
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