Chinese Treasure

Pleasurable Chinese food at Al Nasr Leisureland Reviews

From Time Out Dubai Eating Out 2009

The location might bring a sinking feeling – Al Nasr Leisureland is not known for its highbrow cuisine, and it’s a safe bet that the lone kebab seller stood in the car park is probably not Michelin-starred, but Chinese Treasure is something of a diamond in the rough.

Inside, the decor is authentic enough, in the sense that it has drawn its interiors from the same swatch book as every other Chinese restaurant in Dubai, but on the plate is where it matters, and there are more than a few gems to be found on the menu. It actually offers something a bit different: try the spicy peanut prawns or special chicken for something with a bit of kick.

Attentive service and portions that offer decent value for money are the key; don’t look for something too extraordinary, just be content with some tasty Chinese food at a reasonable price.

By Time Out Dubai staff
Time Out Dubai, 17 March 2009

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

Details

    Location: Oud Metha, Dubai
  • Tel: 04 336 2525
  • Travel: Al Nasr Leisureland
  • Cuisine: Chinese
  • Times: Open daily 12.30pm-3.30pm, 7pm-11.30pm
  • Price: Dhs200-350
  • Credit Cards Accepted: Yes

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  • Users voted this restaurant most suitable for: Family friendly
Posted by: Mohamad B on 21 Jun ' 09 at 19:50
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  • Best for: Family friendly
  • Would you go back to this restaurant? Yes

Its one of the authenticated reputed famous Chinese restaurant. they carry a long experience in Dubai. Their food is great. Its a very good family atmosphere and with a good decore. The roof is high, the enviorment is Chinese. Once you go you will get addicted to their good quality food.

They can reduce the rates back to previous ones in order to attract more customers.

Posted by: Ashwin Fernandes on 21 Feb ' 09 at 06:36
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  • Best for: Family friendly
  • Would you go back to this restaurant? No

I visited this restaurant for the first time on 17th February, 2009 to celebrate a cousins birthday. Having heard so much about this place, our group of 7 family members decided to go to Chinese Treasure as its a short way from International City.

The decor of the place is superb. The entrace makes you feel that you are entering some ancient chinese temple with all types of statues and artifacts around. Indeed we had the feeling of warmt.

However the welcoming by the host wasnt so warming and I would say cold. We got a loud and kinda rude server who was rushing us through our orders. We didnt mind it in the beginning, but it started to get irritating after a while. Having been to some of the best chinese and other restaurants in Dubai we expected some level of more courteous service.

The starter were superb and I recommend that you try out the garlic prawns and red chilly chicken. The red chilly chicken was my favourite. We tried the prawn crackers, but they were kinda soft instead of crispy.

As its a licensed restaurant, I recommend you try the Cocktails. We all had a selection of cocktails and I personnally recommend the Margarita here as it was recommend by our server (well, he did do something good you see).

Coming the main course part, we tried the mixed hakka noodles (w/o veggies), schezuan fried rice, beef crispy and some other items which I cant remember. I would give the food 5 out of 7 here. In my history of dining, it was the first time I seen an authentic chinese restaurant put chicken sausages in the noddles and fried rice, instead of chicken pieces. I informed our server and the restaurant host, but they said they always use sausages. Frankly I only remember sausages being used by my folks at home when making noodles and not at authentic chinese restaurants. The server refused to listen and forced us to have it. Secondly we asked for no veggies in the noddles and fried rice, but to our surprise this wasnt followed. When we questioned the server, he took the item to the kitchen, hand picked the veggies out (yucks!!) and brought it back and we could still see the veggies.

This restaurant lacks a lot in service and really needs to do something.

Food - is good, but the cook seems to be in a hurry and messed up our orders.

There was no restaurant manager on duty and the next day when I called, it was kind of Nilkant Das to apologise, but frankly what can an apology do? I think the server had to replace the items and be more courteous.

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