The gēn 根 Experience

📸 The gēn 根 Experience

📍 The Prestige Hotel, 8 Gat Lebuh Gereja, George Town, Penang

🇲🇾Modern Malaysian Cuisine ⁣⁣⁣⁣

📖 8-courses (Lunch)

💲~RM300

👨‍🍳 Chef Johnson

🏆 Asia 50 Best Restaurants 2021 (No. 92)

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gēn 根 (meaning ‘Roots’) is one of my memorable fine dinings concepts I had in Malaysia. ‘My Malaysian Stories’ tasting menus (eight-course lunch; 12-course dinner) showcases nostalgic native flavours and innovative cooking techniques.

Located at the corner of Prestige Hotel, Gen is an 18-seater restaurant with minimalistic exterior and warmer zen colour scheme for it's interior.

1️⃣

🐓 Chicken Broth with Air Hitam ginger which is fragrant and sweeter in taste.

Served with Ginger oil, 8 year-old rice oil & Penang soya sauce

🟠 Shredded chicken, ginger emulsion & ginger cracker

2️⃣ 🌱Pickled Guava topped with Telur Cavair Tanning Maling Perak & Kaluga Amur Caviar.

👅 Palette Cleanser: Served with fermented green chilli sobert.

3️⃣Sea cucumber sourced from Sekron Sabah ➕ Abalone slices with abalone emulsion.

🥐 Pork belly stuffing in a pie

4️⃣ 🌸Ginger flower sobert layer with assam jelly finish off with Prawn Paste and Fish Maw Floss

5️⃣Buah kulim sauce to go with okra, egg grill jack fruit and fish raw espuma 🧡

6️⃣Teow Chew Steamed Kurao Fish. 🐟

Salted Cabbage Tofu & Pucuk Manis, type of Nonya vege oil, layered with salted cabbage broth 🥬

7️⃣ 🦆Duck is used a lot in Char Quay Teow in Penang. Duck Flat Pancake : Confit duck leg , Duck emulsion, cured duck breast served with duck egg custard with herbal duck egg tea.