Location: Suria KLCC, Kuala Lumpur
Date of Visit: 2nd September 2013
>> I made a visit to KLCC on my second day in Kuala Lumpur over the five days trip. I was sent by my company to attend the SOFTEC convention that was held at Sunway Hotel Resort & Spa. The weather wasn't being too kind to me throughout my trip down south.
It has been raining on most occasion as I made my way out from Sunway immediately after the convention was over for the day. It's been a rough day throughout the session as it was quite boring and slow. Even the invited guests who gave speeches made us aware that it's going to be a long session and to bear with him while he goes through his long winding speech. At least they acknowledge that this sessions will be long and tedious.
I made a date with my little brother, who's currently staying in Kuala Lumpur on that night for dinner. It's hard enough to date a pilot given the amount of time he spent flying around the world, able to catch him when he's back in the country is considered a blessing. Despite all the hassles of planning on where to go for dinner, I made the decision to go to KLCC simply because of the Kinokuniya bookstore that's situated at the shopping center.
We made the decision to try Chinoz, which was seconded by my brother-in-law through Whatsapp although he's not in KL with us. We were supposed to meet up at 7:30pm but eventually due to the bad traffic, we met after 8pm. I reached a wee bit earlier, which enabled me to have half an hour of window shopping before going to Chinoz. Upon reaching the restaurant, the place was dimly lit and crowd was rather thin.
I was shown my way to our reserved table and I had to order some starters and a half pint KilKenny while awaiting for his arrival. I made the order of Deep Fried Calamari which was served upon my little brother and his girlfriend's arrival. Just in time for dinner! As we plough through the calamari, we also made our dinner order. I ordered a Chicken Pie and 3 Mushrooms. They ordered a Seafood Paella, a Salad with Turkey Bacon and a Rainbow Sushi.
The calamari was spot on delicious. By adding lime, it provides the zing in the crunchiness of the deep fried goodness. It's quite surprising that despite the crowd that's pouring in to the restaurant at that time, dinner was served pretty fast. The salad has the usual texture with the normal greens lathered with vinaigrette dressing topping with turkey bacon goodness and a half boiled egg. As for the Paella, it was complete miss.
Despite the generous serving of seafood on the Paella, it was extremely salty and the cheese was thick, making it rather gruesome to continue after a few spoonfuls. It's just like tasting sea water on a plate. Full on salt overload! Never the less, those two managed to finish the entire plate of salt while made a lot of complaints of what they ate without even bother complaining it to the floor captain. To it off, we've decided to go for their desserts.
I've ordered the Sundae while they ordered the double chocolate which consists of a chocolate ganache cake with a serving of chocolate ice cream. It costs a bomb for the entire meal despite the bill were split two ways as I'm covering my dinner costs under corporate expenses. Overall, I'd say this place is only worthy of visiting for a meet up, for a nibble or for tea breaks. Main courses are big miss and because its rather pricey dishes that's considered pretty simple, it makes one wonder if its worthy of revisiting.
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