Chinese New Year is just around the corner, and this year, it is the Year of the Dog. When you think about dogs, you’d think “man’s best friend”. They’re loyal, friendly, and always ready to help others, which are all traits that ought to be celebrated. This year, why don’t you celebrate the Year of the Dog with some yee sang and poon choy at these restaurants in Klang Valley for your reunion dinner?
1. Putien Restaurant
It is possible that no matter where you go, there is a Putien around, which comes to no one’s surprise, given that they actually serve delectable dishes. Further bolstering their reputation would be the amount of awards they have collected under their belt.
With their status, of course they would have several set menus for Chinese New Year, packed with all sorts of creative Chinese cuisines, for your choosing. They have the ‘Propitious’, ‘Plentiful’, and ‘Prosperous’ sets, all of them indicating towards the welcoming of success. You can choose the portion of your food according to the number of people you have, which are either two, four, eight, or ten people. The price range of a set meal is between RM128 and RM1128.
2. Tai Thong
Tai Thong is a cuisine group with a fair amount of flagships under their belt, including Thai Thong Odeon Restaurant in Kepong Baru, Imperial City Restaurant in Cheras, Imperial China Restaurant in Subang, and Spring Garden Restaurant in KLCC and more. The awards they have won over the years include Superbrands Malaysia 2005, ‘The Largest Chain of Chinese Restaurants in Malaysia’ in the Malaysian Book of Records, and one of Malaysia Tatler’s Best Restaurants.
While Tai Thong has three different menus for different flagships, you will find that there are menial differences between each one of them. To start with, two of their menus are pork-free while one consists of porky meals. Between the two pork- free menus itself, there are also some differences. The price range of a set meal is between RM398 and RM1998.
3. Unique Seafood
Unique Seafood Damansara specialises in live seafood selections, along with localised Cantonese dishes with Dim Sum options. And while it is a Chinese restaurant, they are predominantly pork-free. They also have a chain of restaurants in PJ23, Subang, Damansara, and Ipoh.
The main attractions of Unique Seafood’s 2018 CNY set menu is their poon choy. You can also add on the dishes you would like to include in your set. There’s the braised glutinous rice with wax meat, and there’s, of course, going to be shark fin soup. Not only that, you can also get yee sang, assorted seafood, and steamed chicken. The price range of a set meal is between RM48 and RM488.
4. Moon Palace
Also a Chinese restaurant franchise, the cuisines they serve here have a more modern twist. You will be dining in a sophisticated and classic environment in all three of their outlets, found in Cheras Commercial Centre, Bandar Puteri PFCC, and Cheras Sentral.
In different Moon Palace outlets there will be different Chinese New Year set menus. While there are some similarities, their resident chefs have come up with their own twists to their own branches. The price range of a set meal is between RM528 and RM2888.
5. Tung Yuen Restaurant
Tung Yuen Restaurant is one of the dining establishments available in the Grand BlueWave Hotel in Shah Alam. Their main dishes are dim sum, and they serve them in rather big portions, surprisingly. In addition, if you are craving Cantonese or Szechuan dishes, you’ve come to the right place. Sometimes, they also have promotions that include claypot dishes. Plus, you will probably find it comforting to know that this is Southeast Asia’s first 5-star hotel accredited with the highest halal-friendly rating, according to CrescentRating.
As expected, when you’re in a restaurant of which the main dishes are dim sum, their CNY set menu will include an assortment of dim sum dishes that are only exclusively available during Chinese New Year. However, they also have a poon choy set, only halal. You can also get yee sang, fried rice with yam and chicken meat, and soup—all of them are halal! The price range of a set meal is between RM988 and RM1888.
6. Hakka Restaurant
Established since 1956, this is one of the best places in Klang Valley for you to try out Hakka style food if you haven’t, or to go back to your childhood days if you are missing mom’s cooking. It holds a great position among the Chinese restaurants that have already existed for awhile and are still standing.
Their CNY set menus are also pretty renowned across Klang Valley. Every year when the date is near, die hard fans would be waiting for them to release their current year’s CNY menu set so they can start to place bookings. Well, their menu for 2018 is out now! The price range of a set meal is between RM598 and RM1998.
7. Dragon-i Restaurant
Inspired by the cooking scenes in Shanghai, Beijing, Szechuan, and Lanzhou, Dragon-i has made waves in Malaysia since their establishment in 2004. Always, their restaurants, especially the ones in Midvalley and Sunway Pyramid, are packed to the rims by people who are eager to try out their signature dishes: the xiao long bao and hand-pulled noodles.
Among their CNY set menu, poon choy is definitely worth it—I can personally attest to that. This year, with two different poon choys for your choosing, you don’t have to worry about not having options. As a matter of fact, you might have too many! The price range of a set meal is between RM468 and RM688.
8. Pullman
The Pullman Hotel is located in the heart of KL. If you are staying there and you don’t feel like being stuck in a traffic to hunt down other places within KL, you can easily take a walk to the restaurant. Despite the fact that it is quite a Western place, they are also joining in on the Chinese New Year hype.
You can have your reunion dinner at Pullman with their poon choy or yee sang, or even both, if you feel like it. The other dishes will be the foods that are available on Pullman’s menu. The price range of a set meal is within RM599.
9. Peninsula Chinese Cuisine
Peninsula Chinese Cuisine specialises in banquet-style dining and they have a rather steep price, to be honest. However, the visitors often leave with praises and compliments, so there is value with money. They offer Chinese fusion dishes, using natural ingredients and for some privacy, you can also choose to dine in their VIP or VVIP rooms.
When the yee sang comes with shark fin and the braised abalones are in size 10s, you have to forgive them for that steep price. However, just looking at the menu items alone can get you drooling, and after all, this is just a once in a year occasion, isn’t it? The price range of a set meal is within RM1388.
10. Sinchoiwah Restaurant
The exterior kind of reminds you of a Chinese primary school, right? Don’t let that deter you, because the interior will definitely not bring you back to the war flashbacks of your childhood. They are quite successful, considering that they started off as a little stall in 1983 and then became what it is today.
They have different menu sets for Chinese New Year’s Eve and the exact day of Chinese New Year. Dependings on how many people you have with you, you can opt for the set you want. The price range of a set meal is between RM668 and RM1888.
11. TPCKL
Located in Bukit Kiara and only 8km away from the heart of the city, TPCKL is the prime hub for the nearby residential suburbs, offering a number of facilities for business, entertainment, and pleasure in just one place. That, of course, includes dining.
Two different menus, and different portions for different prices. Of course, among all these different portions and menus, you can be sure that yee sang and poon choy is included. The other food items include braised abalones, braised glutinous rice, steamed prawn, and roasted pig. The price range of a set meal is between RM1188 and RM1888.
12. Eastin Hotel
Eastin Hotel is an international hotel chain that offers such high quality services that they have maintained their 5-star status over the years. Their facilities are top notch, their rooms are comfortable and clean, their designs are classy and elegant, and the dining experience at this hotel has gotten nothing less than a compliment from visitors.
If you are travelling and staying at Eastin Hotel during Chinese New Year with your family, you can always have your reunion dinner here. Their menu consists of roasted duck, steamed marble goby fish, oven baked oyster with cheese, abalone, and a lot more. The price range of each meal is between RM688 and RM1988.
13. Celestial Court Restaurant
Sheraton Imperial KL is a very classy hotel to stay at, what with their comfort level and top tiered facilities. So it is only natural for them to provide comfortable and top tiered dining experiences for the residents and visitors as well, which is what Celestial Court has been doing.
Whether you’re there for their set menu or a la carte, they have both to offer. It is quite amazing how they created an ala carte menu, because they understand that it is possible that you can’t finish all the food in the set menu and it might be a waste. Chef Ho Boon has made sure that all the food items on the menu come with quality and will tantalise your taste buds like no other. The price range for each set menu is between RM2088 and RM2888, while the price range for the ala carte menu is between RM60 and RM418.
14. OUG Jade Restaurant
You would never have thought that in a place like OUG, such a restaurant exists. But nothing is impossible, and here you are. While it is not as long lived as a lot of other Chinese restaurants, past guests have been really impressed by their cooking, so that’s something.
As expected, they have different set menus for Chinese New Year’s Eve and the exact day of Chinese New Year. The price range for a set meal is between RM999 and RM3688.
15. Extra Super Tanker Restaurant
This organisation was established in 2004 with the idea of offering Cantonese cuisines with a Hakka twist. They call themselves Extra Super Tanker because, well, it’s pretty easy to remember. Chef Chin, or Ah Wah Gor, has over 30 years of experience in the culinary scene, hence why the restaurant was able to expand from one to two branches.
Unlike other CNY set menus offered by other restaurants, Extra Super Tanker Restaurant’s does not have yee sang or poon choy. As a matter of fact, each and every one of their sets are distinctly different with little to no similarities. The price range for a set is between RM1138 and RM2598.
16. Sun Kar Hee Restaurant
This restaurant is the same age as Taylor Swift, and they carry a simple concept of a Chinese restaurant. However, perhaps it is because of their simplicity that until today they are still standing firm and their tables are almost always occupied by people.
See, when a restaurant is simple, you’d expect their menus to be simple as well. However, even their yee sangs alone are different in each set, which serves to show that they put a lot of dedication into creating these menus for their customers. The price range for a set meal is between RM555 and RM1988.
17. Harmony Banquet
As can be seen from their name, they are a banquet-style Chinese restaurant, easily accessible from the LDP highway. Their specialisations are inclusive of organic chicken, soft shell crab, and braised pork belly.
Here at Harmony Banquet, you can get either a reunion lunch or dinner. They have the commonly seen yee sang, piping hot soup, roasted pig, abalone and scallops. You name it, they probably have it. The price range for a set meal is between RM698 and RM3888.
18. Green View Restaurant
Green View Restaurant was established in 1983. Going from a typical signboard with a Carlsberg logo to what it is today is a pretty impressive progress. You can see how people love this place judging by how they have helped Green View Restaurant improve. Plus, the staff are friendly too, so it’s no wonder that people keep coming back.
Green View Restaurant has two kinds of CNY set menus, one for the VIPs and one for non-VIPs. With the VIP menus, you will get two bottles of complimentary red wines. With the non-VIP ones, the menus end with dessert. The price range for a set meal is between RM788 and RM4888.
19. Sam You Restaurant
Sam You means ‘Three Friends’ in Chinese. Also a pretty old school Chinese Restaurant that seems to always be packed. Don’t just bring your two friends there though, bring your whole family here for Chinese New Year The price range for a set meal is between RM668 and RM1588.
20. Secret Garden
Secret Garden has a classy vibe to it, surrounded by plants and whatnot. Also, it might bring to mind the Korean television series of the same name, but there’s nothing Korean about this place.
You can get either a steamboat set or a usual eight-course set at Secret Garden. The price range of a set meal is between RM668 and RM1668.
Feature Image Credit: Hotel Amba
