China Treasures.. Is it really a treasure?

Hi Everyone! How did you spend Valentine's day? Well, I had a few friends over at my place and we spent some time catching up and baking chocolate chip cookies (I will share the recipe in a different post).

After spending the whole afternoon baking batches and batches of cookies and poking fun at each other we were all pretty much exhausted and hungry. A friend suggested Halal Dim Sum for dinner and another friend quickly suggested China Treasures as it's kinda near to my place and she's tried the Dim Sum buffet lunch there before and they're delicious!

So the four of us went to restaurant and we were ushered to a round table in the middle of the restaurant. We asked the waiter for the buffet and he informed us that it has been discontinued. Disappointed, we decided to order the Dim Sum ala-carte instead only to be told that they only serve Dim Sum for lunch. Since we were already there and hungry we decided to scrape our Dim Sum plan and order some dishes instead.

While waiting for our food we were served a small bowl of boiled peanuts which is a common tidbits served at a Chinese restaurant. Not very much later, our Hot and Sour Soup arrived.

Hot and Sour Soup (Portion for One pax) 

We ordered two of this and it is definitely more than enough for four pax (or more).

When we asked the waiter what was the recommended portion size for four pax he recommended Medium (usually for 4-5pax) but when our main course arrived, to our surprise, the Mediums can definitely feed at least 8 pax!

Fried Rice with Salted Egg and Seafood (Medium)

Butter Prawn (Medium)

Sizzling Beancurd with Minched Chicken (Small) 

Even the Small portion (recommended for 2-3 pax) is too much

Black Pepper Beef (Medium)

All four of us agreed that with the exception of the Butter prawn, the rest of the dishes were only mediocre. Really, there's nothing to shout about taste-wise. We also ended up with at least half of each dishes untouched as the portion is definitely too big for the four of us. When we call the waiter for the bill (a different one from the one who took our order), looking at the leftovers, he said, "You girls should have ordered Small size for all of your orders"


We didn't even bother telling him that his colleague was the one who actually recommended Medium! He must've thought that we are all a bunch of gluttons!

When the bill arrived, we were all surprised that the bill came out to RM410!! Really RM6 for tidbits, RM54 for fried rice?? We knew the place is a bit on the "high-end" side but it is not exactly a fine dining restaurant or anything like that. We expected our bill would perhaps come up to about RM300+ but RM410 is just ridiculously pricey! And may I add that the restaurant was very noisy throughout our dinner since there is a private event going on in the private hall and the service was also mediocre as most of the waiters were busy serving the guests at the private event.

So, there you go, the story of my Valentine's Day dinner with my girlfriends. I will definitely NOT be coming back to this restaurant for dinner but perhaps I am still open to the idea of the Halal Dim Sum Buffet Lunch.

My Overall Verdict:

Taste: 5/10

Service 6/10

Ambiance 5/10

Presentation: 6/10

Value for Money: 4/10

If you don't mind spending ridiculously big amount of money for mediocre Chinese cuisine, China Treasures is located at the top floor of Sime Darby Convention Centre (same floor as Halia Restaurant).

Address and contact details:

Sime Darby Convention Centre,
1A Jalan Bukit Kiara 1, 
60000 Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur
03-2089 3788

For more information visit Sime Darby Convention Centre official website.

Till Then, Happy Valentine's Day.
Liv