PAO PAO Liquor Bar & Dim Sum Parlour – Senopati, Jakarta

It as been a while since I had dimsum and I’ve been craving for it since I returned from Japan. After having our afternoon snack at Amber, AnakJajan decided to have our dinner at newly opened PAO PAO Liquor Bar & Dim Sum Parlour.

Pao Pao is a liquor bar offering wide range of cocktail selection and also dimsum. AnakJajan personally love the interior concept here, it’s kinda electic style of old school China bar dominated with red and yellow lights. It’s located at Senopati area near Chateau Blanc right beside the newly opened Arraseo.

Even though I love cocktail drink, we didn’t order any alcohol drink since we need to be sober on our way home later, so we ordered three of their signature mocktail, Hustle Stormy IDR 45k, Lychee Little Shanghai IDR 45k, Double Happiness IDR 45k, all of them were fruity, refreshing and not overly sweet, my personal favorite would be the Double Happiness.

We got a complimentary drink from the manager which was their signature cocktail Pina Colada, it was tasty but very strong.

Hustle Stormy IDR 45k
Muddled pineapple chunk, twist lemon, honey and homemade ginger beer

Lychee Little Shanghai IDR 45k
Freshly pressed lychee, lime, sugar syrup, soda water

Double Happiness IDR 45k
Grapefruit juice, cranberry, hibiscus syrup, lime

Lychee Little Shanghai IDR 45k, Double Happiness IDR 45k

For the dimsum, we had Steamed Dimsum Platter IDR 125k and Fried Dimsum Platter IDR 100k. At first we thought that since this is a liqour bar their dimsum won’t be good but we were wrong!! Both dimsum steamed and fried were soooo good and beyond my expectation, my craving for good dimsum were totally satisfied. Each dimsum were carefully prepared and tasted delicious, not to mention the huge size. I’m craving for it already at this moment while writing this post, need to revisit again soon!

Steamed Dimsum Platter IDR 125k
4 siumay, 4 hargow, 3 guotie, 2 salted pao egg, 2 char siu bao

Fried Dimsum Platter IDR 100k
3 fried prawn dumpling, 3 prawn & chicken wrapped in beancurd skin, 3 fried taro croquettes, 3 sugar cane prawn roll

Overall, great ambiance with tasty dimsum were indeed a double happiness. The only downside would be the full smoking area that obviously won’t be comfortable for a non smoker to stay too long. Let’s Jajan!!