China Court Holdings Sdn Bhd probably one of the worst Chinese restaurant I have ever been. Called me brutal, but I have got to be really honest with the dimsum . How so that it suck like that? And coming from a restaurant? That really is rather peculiar how they could have maintained so far. But I should be a bit more fair to them. Honestly, I was only there for the dimsum and roast duck which they are strongly pushing it. Apparently its their current promotion. But really, I wouldn’t want to offer a second chance to try out their other dishes on the menu. A friend told me, “give them a chance, you might not know that lunch and dinner maybe extraordinary”. I gave it a five seconds thought,…..and ,nah…I’m least likely to do that. Well probably if I am ever invited to a wedding dinner held in this restaurant then maybe. But other than that, na-ah….never.
They start of with several fancy appetizers. Chilled appetizers. And not a single one is palatable.Then came deng chai zhuk (porridge), peanuts and fish porridge. If I guessed it correctly, it taste like the nuts or the fish is just being stirred into the same pot of porridge just right before they served it. I mean, both the porridge taste really similar to me. Next is some common dimsum we normally order in any dimsum restaurant or hawker centre. From left to right: loh bak kou (carrot cake), siew mai (steam minced pork), har kao(prawn dumpling), jeng pai kuat(steam pork), oh kok(yam), chee cheong fun char siew and har (steam rice flour with roasted pork and prawn), hor yip fun (lotus leaf rice).
Let’s see carrot cake is all flour and no carrot, steam minced pork for some reason is hard. Needs more fat choices of meats. The prawn dumpling…don’t even get me started with it. Although I must not forget to mention how incredibly fresh is the prawns. Almost crunchy when chewing it. The rest was nothing impressive and if any readers just needs to go dine in this place. Please skip the lotus leaf rice. I questioned if they re-use the leaf? And if they picked the rice before they cooked it? I can practically taste some harder rice grains in it. As for the leaf…opps..what leaf? There was no leaf fragrant in the rice.
Having to run a restaurant, surely there are some nice things on the menu. Of course there is. I recommend the char siew pau. And the egg tart.Forget about the Shanghai xiu long pau. Its true what they said, a picture is worth a thousand words. Which in this case, comes in really handly. But to be very honest here…I kind of ran out of vocabulary to describe what went wrong.Then there is some other fancy stuffs which I probably give credit to the innovative attempt to be creative. But if you ask me, if a basic siew mai is not yet great, no harm to just leave the creativity part out huh?Just for the sake of finding something worth writing and recommending, I also tried the jeong sau mee (longevity noodle). Apparently handmade, and to be honest not too bad either. I quite fancy the texture of the noodle.Last but not least, is the promotional dish which they recommended-the roasted goose. And I say, it was no biggie…good but not enough to remind customers to go back for more.

There were quite a fair bit of varieties, as written on the menu on the wall. I ordered sweet and sour crab and fried bread to go with it. In less than 15 minutes, our crabs were served.Sweet and sour crab came complete with pliers and I wondered where my fried bread is? In another 10 minutes, our bread arrived and it looked nothing like the menu. It was steamed. Rather disappointed, because we were charged for that. Menu showing complete crab and bread, but the staffs were not sure of it themselves. We paid anyway. It was palatable, so I have no comment on this. Not to mention we finally got our extra chili sauce spontaneously after we ordered the crab. How is that relevant? I don’t know…I’m assuming readers would know.Pau lookalike bread wasn’t that bad when dipping into sweet and sour sauce from the crab.In contrary to that, the crab was however hideous. Completely off and I really don’t think they should be serving that. Ever…! And I will never eat that again. Not even if I’m being paid to do so.

Jaya One is probably no longer any news to many people. The place is filled with people almost every other night, not to mention weekends and public holidays being mostly packed with more people till late night. Famous with lots of German restaurants and pubs, some which I’ve already published some post earlier. Recently, I went casual drinking, enjoying life as we should be doing, I came across this place and I thought it’s a great place to drink and chill out with friends if you wanna have a good talk. Most of the restaurant will have their kitchen close by the time it approaches midnight. But this place has got their desserts serving even thou the kitchen closes. They serve nice cake slices, which do a great companion to long talks and catching ups. Also, it’s probably one of the few restaurants and pubs here which have live bands performing on a mini podium. So this makes a great hang out and bands have got lots of interactions with the audience as well.The cakes may not be fantastic, but as you can see they are lovely to be looked at. I ‘m going to be very honest with the cake so let’s not expect anything like the secret recipe, let alone anything better than secret recipe. So the correct description is probably not palatable. Cheap butter, lousy cream, and untempered chocolate.I guess we cannot expect too much from one place alone. There is always the awesome feature and the downside of what it takes. At least the drinks are all cool. So go for the live music, and the drinks. The cakes as well, if you are really hungry or if you don’t trust me. LOL.

The chicken rice shop sells chicken rice and few other items with chicken as main ingredient in it. Things like noodles and porridge are also available. It is fantastic that they are working towards bringing more variety for dinners so the choices becomes more diverse when customers choice to dine in any chicken rice shop outlet. In trying to achieve that, they apparently came up with desserts as well. When I tried their dessert, I was unsure if they are doing puding or agar agar. The texture was somewhere in between but it was nothing pleasant to the palate. Nothing to shout about and nothing memorable about it.

I was looking forward to famous Taiwan cuisine’s street snack signature, the oyster mee suah. However, to my amazement it did got me overwhelmed a little. I could have never expected that the oyster mee suahcan be this awful. How is that possible?But I thought I should keep my judgments, at least until I had the rest of the noodles we ordered. So the Minced pork noodle and the Spare rib noodle tasted almost ordinary. But it was not bad for the fact that that they had a lot of spare ribs in the noodle.