11 May 2025
Last Christmas, I bought a brunch for 2 voucher from Upplevelse for 524kr. The price was discounted due to Black week. When I bought the voucher, there was only one restaurant in the list - Kvarnen. Last week, I checked it and a new restaurant was in the list - Waipo. We decided to go to Waipo. I think it was a good decision because the food served is different from the usual brunch. We had dimsum!
We were given a menu to choose the dimsum we wanted. We had 4 steamed dimsum, 2 dishes from the noodle/rice, 1 fried dimsum, 1 dish from steamed bread, 1/4 of grilled duck, 1 dimsum from the sweet options, 2 types of dipping sauce (one can choose all 4 dipping sauce) and 2 pots of tea (one can have several). You can see the ones that we marked to have. All the words are in Cantonese pronounciation.
We were served our choice of tea first while we chose our food. The first choice of tea we had was oolong tea.
Our sweet and fried dimsum came first. For sweet, we chose 64. No mai chi - warm coconut balls made of glutinous rice with sweet egg filling and for fried, we chose 51. Wu gok - deep fried taro-filled dumplings with fillings of shrimp, pork, shiitake mushroom and carrot. I enjoyed the deep fried taro. Crispy.
I had the sweet dumpling the last. I would not recommend this. I thought the egg filling will ooze out but it did not. It is a bit boring. Amazingly, the sweet dumpling was still warm when we had it, as per its name in the menu.
Next, came our steamed dumplings and steamed bread with duck. Our dipping sauce is dim sum sauce and chilli oil.
No. 6 Hung syu gaau zi - pork and shiitake mushroom
No 13. Dou shi paai gwat - steamed ribs with black bean sauce. Not recommended. This dish has more bones than meat. It was difficult to chew the meat off the bone too.
No 41. Bak ging baau - steamed bread filled with Beijing-style duck. This was really delicious!
Next, No 21 Siu aap - grilled duck (one-quarter) with dipping sauce. Several bones which I found it troublesome to bite the hard meat off the bone too but I like the skin.
Then, the 2 dishes from the rice and noodle section. We had No 33. No mai gai - glutinous rice with chicken and pork and No 34. Jyu yuk wan tan tong - Wanton filled with pork and shallots served in broth. The wanton dish could have had white pepper in its filling. The broth is not very flavourful.
The glutinous rice dish went well with the chilli oil. I had this dish in Malaysia and I am not a fan of it as I often find it very filling and oily. However, this dish was not such so I enjoyed it. I think it helped that I shared this dish so I did not get too full.
Finally, our dessert - mochi ice-cream with raspberry and sour plum sauce. This is my second favourite after the steamed bread with duck. We had three flavours of ice-cream - chocolate, macha, and passion fruit. I liked the passion fruit the best.
We had a second pot of tea as we would like something to drink after all the food. The first pot of tea was finished. For our second pot of tea, we chose jasmine tea. The fragrance from the jasmine flower was very strong. We even got a new mug to have our jasmine tea. I was informed that is to ensure that the tea flavours don't mix.
Overall, good food experience! I summed up the price from the menu and everything came up to 810kr and this does not include the price of the teapot as the price is not in the menu. Well, it was definitely worth the experience as the voucher costs lesser and best of all, we did not have to pay any tips!
