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D’lightful d’scoveries might draw d’votees to Plaza 33’s D’Cuisine, a new retooled-Asian-cuisine offshoot of the D’Italiane Kitchen restaurant chain.
The menu feels both familiar and fresh with tempting twists throughout: this Oriental tapas platter (RM29+) illustrates inventiveness via a wet trifecta of Mongolian chicken cubes, chili prawns and buttered salted-egg fish slices with toasted handmade mantou bun.
Chinese-influenced Pu-Erh tea-infused chicken (RM18+), smoked for 45 minutes, served with Malay-style blue-tinted butterfly-pea rice. Pleasant one-plate fare.
‘Sang har mee,’ RM48+ for this serving with 300 grams of freshwater prawns, piled upon thick Hong Kong yee mee that retains its crispness very well while still soaking up the robustly savory, roe-rich sauce.
There’s plenty more to try here, from Nyonya curry noodles with Norwegian salmon to Australian beef ball soup to fish and chips in a kaffir-lime batter.
But save space for some fun desserts, including this mild-but-unique salted egg pudding with house-made vanilla ice cream (RM19+).
Lemongrass ice cream with lemongrass jelly. Lovely, more so for these hazy-hot days. RM11+.
Avocado ice cream, a hearty double scoop served with a side of Arabica espresso (RM21+).
Respectable wine at a more-than-respectable rate of RM20+ per glass.
D’Cuisine runs an alfresco cafe cutely called Ketch-Up in this building (an extension of Jaya 33), where folks can sip a marvelously milky Creme Brulee Latte.
It’s still early days, but Plaza 33 is certain to become a should-visit for Petaling Jaya’s foodies; this complex now also houses Noble Mansion and Kampachi, with Coliseum, a new branch of the Tuanku Abdul Rahman Road institution, expected to open here next month.
D’Cuisine at PJ Plaza 33,
Ground Floor, The Plaza at Jaya 33, Jalan Semangat, Section 13, Petaling Jaya.
Open for lunch and dinner, Mon-Thurs, and 11am-11pm Fri-Sun.