China Club

Tasteful Chinese restaurant by Dubai's creek Reviews

Meal Deal
Dim Sum Nights

‘Eat All You Can’ Dim Sum menu for only Dhs108 per person Timings: 7.30pm-11pm (Sunday, Saturday)

Yummy food for Dhs95

Yum Cha at Dhs95 per person Timings: 12 noon-3pm (Daily)

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From Time Out Dubai Eating Out 2008

This Chinese restaurant remains popular with a sedate older crowd. The contemporary but homely decor suits the clientele down to the ground, and groups of diners can reserve one of the stately private dining rooms. But does the food live up to the tasteful interior design?

Pick wisely from the menu and you’ll dine like an emperor. Plump for the juicy roasted duck salad, for example, and it’ll conjure up visions of Hong Kong. For vegetarians, shredded bean curd salad is inventive and comes with a ginger kick and fresh coriander leaves.

Avoid the red snapper and black bean main, on the other hand – it looks magnificent with the head and tail arranged next to the chunks of fish, but lacks any depth of flavour despite the spicy gravy sauce it swims in. Accompany your meal with perfectly sticky steamed rice – which could have come out of a kitchen in China – and baby pak choi with garlicky shiitake mushrooms, and you’ll be pleased that you came.

The menu could do with a few more Chinese teas to wash your meal down with, although the big pot of oolong does the job. Desserts are slightly let down by a lack of authentic ingredients – one should have been filled with lotus seeds, but they’re probably difficult to source in Dubai.

Opt instead for the caramelised banana, which is made at your table and dished up with vanilla ice-cream – crack open the piping hot banana balls and devour the sweet molten flesh.

On the whole, the food here is well executed and the service attentive; you’ll want to return.

Time Out reviews restaurants anonymously and pays for meals. Of course, we cannot guarantee the accuracy or independence of user reviews.

Details

    Location: Radisson Blu Hotel, Dubai Deira Creek, Deira, Dubai
  • Tel: 04 205 7333
  • Travel: Baniyas Road
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  • Users voted this restaurant most suitable for: Family friendly
  • Percentage of Time Out Dubai readers would go back to this restaurant: 100%
Posted by: wilford smith on 27 Jun ' 09 at 10:19
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  • Best for: Family friendly
  • Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

I've been there so many times and I really love the food and their service as well.From the entrance to dining and the very accommodating staff there's no reason why so many people are always dine there.

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