Zi Zai – The new, the hidden, and the best

自在饭店 Zi Zai RestaurantTel: 604-826 5713 (Mr. Tan Hock Chai)Biz. Hours: 12pm-2:30PM, 6PM-10.30pm (Tue Close)

Previously, I reviewed about a Paya Terubong’s Chinese restaurant called Zi Zai 自在饭店 (Click here for previous article).  The chef, Hock Chai, was friendly and kind enough to treat us his ultimate dish – Poon Choi 盆菜. Recently, I became his guinea pig to try some of his new inventions.

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Yummy Village Poon Choi

盆菜 Poon Choi

Poon Choi 盘菜 is a Chinese dish which is usually expensive (at least for me) and can be found in most fine dining Chinese restaurants. Thanks to being a low paying slave, I never had a chance to try it until last weekend when a group of friends gathered together at one of the Choo Char restaurant in Paya TerubongZi Zai Restaurant 自在饭店.

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