NEW CREATIONS FROM PRIMA TOWER BECKON MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL
 
Once again serving up a mouth-watering range of sweet and savoury treats for the Mid-autumn Festival, authentic Beijing restaurant Prima Tower has specially created new items to help Singaporeans celebrate and carry on the traditions of the harvest festival in style!
 
Serving authentic Beijing cuisine to Singaporeans atop a flour silo for the past 26 years, Prima Tower, a member of the PFS Group of Restaurants, carries on the tradition of the Mid-Autumn Festival with Treasure Ingots! Made of lotus paste, these exquisite mini mooncakes are fashioned after gold ingots that were used as currency in ancient China. Perfectly baked to a fragrant golden brown, Treasure Ingots will pamper tastebuds alongside Prima Tower’s immensely popular crispy yam paste mooncakes that were introduced last year. And for those who prefer the traditional, baked mooncakes containing lotus paste and double yolk are also available at the Prima Tower Revolving Restaurant.
 
To further seduce food fans gastronomically, the restaurant is also introducing a special set menu of nine signature dishes concocted specially to celebrate the full moon, family love and unity.
 
Whet your appetite with Prima Tower’s refreshing Lobster Salad, containing chunks of fresh lobster meat with an array of tropical fruits and salad cream, followed by the must-have Shark’s Fin Soup with Crab Meat. Other house specials on the menu include Deep-fried Garoupa with Salt and Pepper, Prima Tower’s famous Authentic Barbequed Peking Duck, tasty Shredded Scallop with Fish and Egg White, Steamed Fresh Prawns and Stir-fried Seasonal Vegetables with Shredded Dried Scallop and Mushroom. 
 
To add “oomph” to the festive spread at Prima Tower, the restaurant is offering a special ramen and dim sum treat for all noodle and dim sum lovers. Handmade especially by Chef Sheng Guan Song from Shandong, China, and whose career spans over 40 years of traditional Beijing dim sum and noodle making, the Mid-Autumn Festival ramen and dim sum specials are set to bring diners back for more.
 
Holder of the 1994 Guinness World Record for creating 8,192 strands of ramen in under one minute, Chef Sheng will be exercising his culinary talent to present Cold Ramen with Spicy Soya Pork. A staple of Southern China, the ramen is chilled using ice cubes and perfectly complemented with slices of flavourful stewed pork trotters marinated with five spices.
 
Variations of Chef Sheng’s ramen creations include Handmade Special “Dragon Bearded” Ramen which are thinly created and fried before tastefully complementing the crispy noodle strands with abalone, crab meat, bamboo shoots and fresh and dried scallops. Fragrant and boasting a robust flavour, the Cold Ramen with Shredded Chicken and Mixed Vegetables which is made to taste with sesame and peanut sauce is simply delicious and irresistible.
 
Chef Sheng’s dim sum spread includes authentic Beijing “food of the commoners” or more popularly known as “street eats” like Baked Crispy Radish Pie, Minced Meat “Shao Bing”, Baked Beef Pie in Mongolia Style and Grilled Dumpling with Seafood. Others like Steamed “Dragon Eye” Dumpling, Grilled Shanghai Bao and Steamed “Shang Tung” Fish Meat Dumpling also add variety to the festive menu.
 
The Steamed “Dragon Eye” Dumpling made of chicken chunks, bits of scallops and straw mushroom wrapped in flour skin and shaped into “dragon’s eyes” are sensational hits among children and adults. Another must-try is the Minced Meat Shao Bing, containing pork floss, chives and minced meat wrapped in crispy skin with a generous sprinkle of sesame on the top. The Baked Crispy Radish Pie, with a tantalising yet refreshingly tasty combination of radish, chives and spring onions baked within a crispy exterior packs in an “oomph” with every bite.
 
“In my years of experience with Beijing cuisine, I have acquired a keen interest in vegetarian dishes and dim sum. Hence, I was delighted to create and introduce new items in the menu, to help Singaporeans enjoy the taste of authentic Beijing food in Singapore,” said Chef Sheng Guan Song.
 
The Treasure ingots retail at $28 for a box of nine mini mooncakes. The Prima Tower signature dishes set menu of nine dishes is priced at $398+++ for a table of 10 persons. Furthermore, each set menu purchased will be entitled to a complimentary box of mooncakes. Chef Sheng’s new ramen creations are priced from $18 onwards while the new dim sum sell from $3.50 onwards per plate. Prima Tower’s Mid-autumn Festival offerings will be available from 14 August to 11 September 2003.