C19 Kitchen — Restaurant in Petaling Jaya

The place is quite old and not furnished.

Also, the food didn’t taste good. The deemed personalised private kitchen dining was more of a usual Chinese food, but made without effort.

We opted for 5 course meal at the price of about RM180/person, for 8 person. Summed up to about RM1,400.

1st course - skewers + crispy popiah with prawn (this was alright) 2nd course - a small plate of celery and carrots (seriously? and it tasted bland. Did not bother to take any picture). 3rd course - steamed egg with bonito flakes and two small squids (the texture of the egg was rough, and the squids were not fresh. Bland taste.) 4th course - hot pot with clear soup for sharing with seafood and rice (this is probably the best dish for the night; but I’m not sure how it can go wrong with hotpot. The chef could have put in more effort, including making some sauce or something. Rather than expecting us to eat hot pot in a private course meal experience ). 5th course - sweet dessert soup (nothing to shout about).

Overall, it was quite disappointing including the service. The waiter that served us could not understand English, Malay and Mandarin. One of the instances is that upon us telling him to let the birthday girl pop the champagne, he popped it.

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