Zuan Yuan Restaurant @ One World Hotel

6 August 2010

It was a special day with an unusual occasion, a luxurious lunch among our sales ops team. It was treated by our business application manager in Phoenix, Arizona, USA for our team's good performance.

Given a budget of usd 20 for each person, we voted either to have the meal at Zuan Yuan or Kura which both of them are located in One World Hotel. Considering that Zuan Yuan serves "Eat All You Can" high class dim sum, we finally decided to go for this since we have three guys here who can be big eaters.

The price for the buffet is RM48++. You can choose one among the two choices, Emperor Set and Empress Set. All the items listed are unlimited orders except for the soup and prawn noodles.

The sets do not come with drinks. Since we have another RM10 left for each person, we ordered a pot of 12-year-Pu Er tea. This cost RM12 per person.

The soup you can order from emperor set will be a 生翅灌汤饺, a soup containing steamed seafood dumpling with superior stock, while empress set serves 鱼翅羹, shark fin soup.

One thing "special" about the dim sum here is that they are all halal, which means they are not made by pork. This makes some of the dim sum taste worse than they should be. I am alright with that because I am not a pork lover. I expect they will replace the pork with chicken, but.....almost all of them are with prawns. The Siu Mai is stuffed with steamed glutinous. I do not really like it, not also chee cheong fun. Among all of them, I love the shark fin siu mai/鱼翅卖，yam siu mai/芋头卖，bean curd roll/腐皮卷，and chilled aloe vera infused with lemon grass/香茅芦苇冻.

shark fin siu mai/鱼翅买

yam siu mai/芋头卖

stir-fried turnip cake with XO sauce/生炒萝卜糕

bean curd roll/腐皮卷

chilled aloe vera infused with lemon grass/香茅芦苇冻

Rate: 3/5

Address: Ground floor, One World Hotel, next to One Utama shopping complex, Bandar Utama.