48 Janadhipathi Mawatha, Colombo 1
Open 11.30 AM to 2.30 PM, 6 PM to 11.30 PM
Yue Chuan is a fine dining Chinese restaurant located at the Kingsbury hotel. The food is good, but not excellent.
Yue Chuan at The Kingsbury is one of the few fine dining Chinese restaurants in Colombo. The food is decent and the prices are pretty reasonable, but we weren't blown away.
Unlike most of the other Chineses restaurants in Colombo, Yue Chuan doesn't have a massive 100 page menu. That being said, they still offer a good variety of dish types with pretty much all the essentials covered. When it comes to prices at Chinese restaurants, we've noticed that there's actually only a bit of a difference between the regulars and the fine dining. While certain dish types like duck and scallop are a bit higher in price, the usual meats, veges and carbs are pretty reasonable with small portions priced between Rs. 450 and Rs. 950. They've also got a few set menus priced at around Rs. 3000 which cover a range of dish types.
For starters we had the pork and celery dumplings (Rs. 700). These were soft and smooth in texture, with ample filling. The filling itself was lightly seasoned with the diced celery adding a bit of texture. These taste fine on their own but dipping them in the soy sauce really does add greatly to the flavour.
The Szechuan style fried noodles with seafood (Rs. 650) was unremarkable. When it said "fried" noodles we were expecting crispy noodles, but these are fried in the same sense as a fried rice, as in more along the lines of cooked in oil. The positives here was that the portion was easily enough for three with a good amount of seafood. On the flip side, it lacked balance of flavour with it tasting mostly of chilli.
The roast pork with honey (Rs. 870) was good, but not exceptional. You get a decent amount of thinly sliced roast pork on a bed lettuce. While the pork was roasted and seasoned well, we would have liked to see a bit more of that honey sauce. Since the other pork dishes are priced at Rs. 550, we think those might be better value for money.
The sweet and sour bean curd (Rs 800) was surprisingly tasty. It's prepared in the usual sweet and sour sauce, but it works quite nicely with the fried been curd, which is crispy on the on the outside and soft in the center.
The best of the dishes we tried was easily their pan-fried tuna steak in black bean sauce (Rs. 800). The fish itself was cooked perfectly soft with the sauce binding to it beautifully. While the fish was the base, the sauce is what really added the flavour and heat. It can be quite intense with both green chillies and black bean, so have it judiciously.
For dessert we tried the deep-fried ice cream in strawberry sauce (Rs. 400) which didn't look like much, but was actually quite nice. You get two scoops of ice cream, fried in a light batter which adds a nice crunch. The strawberry sauce also works well here, but there just wasn't enough of it.
The deep-fried banana roll with ice cream (Rs. 400) can be best described as a banana spring roll. This one works well because it has that mix of warmth from the banana roll and the coolness of the ice cream.
The ambience at Yue Chuan is classical if a bit dated. They've gone with some soft lighting which is easy on the eyes but at times just isn't enough. That being said, the restaurant is spacious and seems to be quite popular among foreigners in particular. The Chinese oriental music was also something we quite enjoyed.
Service was pretty good overall, but did have room for improvement. They did quite well in terms of preparation times with the food being ready in under 15 minutes. The waiters carry themselves professionally and seem to know the menu well. However, certain little things like bringing the tea and menus took too long and we found ourselves reminding them about it a few times.
Yue Chuan is a good chinese restaurant with it's merits, but we wouldn't say that it's exceptional. At the end of the day, we'd go there again.
Yue Chuan at The Kingsbury is one of the few fine dining Chinese restaurants in Colombo. The food is decent and the prices are pretty reasonable, but we weren't blown away.
Yue Chuan is a fine dining Chinese restaurant located at the Kingsbury hotel. The food is good, but not excellent.
සිංහල යූ චුවාං කියන්නේ කිංස්බරි හෝටලයේ පිහිටි චීන අවන්හලක්. කෑම හොඳ වුණාට ඇති විශිෂ්ට කියා කිව නොහැකියි.
Address
48 Janadhipathi Mawatha, Colombo 1
Directions
Yue Chuan is on the ground floor of The Kingsbury Hotel.
Contacts
Report InaccuracyOpen 11.30 AM to 2.30 PM, 6 PM to 11.30 PM
Cuisine
Price Range
Ratings Breakdown
Long Feng has good service, but the food just doesn't…
A nice spot to chill with some booze, and delicious fried…
Delete Comment
thej_anihotmailcom
Any reviews on Yum Cha that they advertise for saturdays and sundays. Was thinking of going tomorrow but have my second thoughts now…
TP
Totally agree with this review, I went there a few weeks ago with my family and couldn't help but think everything was just so-so. Nothing was delicious and the food lacked something as mentioned above, can't quite put my finger on it. For a five-star fine dining restaurant, the food should be better, but the service was good.
Ricepudding
We tried the yum cha. It was really bad and not worth the money. Plus it took two hours to get served that too by a very rude waiter/manager!?
Rosh
Horrible service! Had to wait over an hour for basic food
Captain was rudely demanding orders using obscene languag
Probably won't come back!
Charith
Yue Chuan's glory days are over as is the case for most of Kingbury's dinning outlets serving poor quality or expired food and beverages.
There was a time when service standards were impeccable and waiters knew the dishes you were ordering and could even recommend something confidently.
The most disappointing part of this experience is that you can see they have 3 Chinese chefs in the kitchen and yet cant get this service right.
Serving subpar quality food in terms of produce at a hotel that claims to be a 5star is an absolute disaster. An inability for a hotel to procure fresh ingredients is an indication that its purchasing department is failing miserably and there are no quality standards even at the level of the chef who simply cooks up what he is given without any respect for his own standards working in such an establishment.
I would recommend Tsing Tao at racecourse over this easily for their service level (professional service staff from abroad).
HS2016
Terrible service. Been waiting almost 2hrs for the mains now:(
KIKI
Had the worst experiance a couple of weeks back.we ordered rice and four sides and the food was studded with salt.We wanted the captain to check for himself and new food was brought in which were average and nothing special for the price and five star dining.The worst chinese food i ever had