Spring Garden Restaurant

Popped in for lunch one Sunday afternoon around 4pm. Unsurprisingly quiet, but the staff were friendly and efficient.
Perfectly acceptable dim sum, if not an extensive offering.
Restaurant was a liitle dimly lit, but food was well-​presented and tasty!

Spring Garden is a Chinese restaurant located on the 4^th floor of Suria KLCC, which is the mall below Petronas Towers in central Kuala Lumpur. I wanted to try dim sum in Malaysia for the first time, so I was looking for a place to try it at. I had walked by this restaurant on my first day in town before they were open. I took a look at their dim sum menu and came back the next day to give it a try.
This restaurant is part of the Tai Thong Group which runs a dozen Chinese restaurants in Malaysia. Half of those restaurants are non-​halal, while the remaining are pork free. Spring Garden is one of those pork free restaurants, so you won’t find any menu items here with that ingredient. Seeing as how a lot of my favorite dim sum dishes have pork in them, I was interested to know if the exclusion of that ingredient made a big difference in taste.
The interior of the restaurant is quite lovely. It is nicely adorned, without being too elegant. Casual dress is fine here. No need to dress up. In addition to serving Chinese fare, the restaurant also sells lunar mooncakes in many flavors and different styles (baked and snow) during the Mid-​Autumn Festival season.
The dim sum prices here might be considered a bit high to locals, but I found them to be reasonably priced as many of them were US $ 2 – 3 each. Whereas you can expect to pay on average US $ 3.50 per dish in Seattle.
Ordered five items including shrimp dumplings, shreddded duck rice noodle rolls, steamed fish balls, radish cake with chicken floss and jade sesame balls. To accompany the dishes, I ordered a pot of pu-​erh tea. Note that they charge for tea here, but worth getting nevertheless.
Overall, I enjoyed the dim sum here. The shredded duck rice noodle rolls really stood out. The texture of the duck is almost bacon like. The fish balls were also tasty, though I had plenty of it in KL. And if you like Chinese desserts, the jade sesame balls are a must order. The inside of the sesame balls has a green tea custard filling which was delicious.
To answer the question if I missed not having dim sum with pork in it, the answer is no. There is enough variety here that you won’t miss it. As for rating the dim sum quality, I would say that it doesn’t quite match up to HK or Vancouver dim sum, but I would rate it above dim sum in Honolulu and Seattle.
Ended up paying about US $ 16 for a dim sum lunch here. That includes a 10% service charge and 6% GST plus a small charge for a wet towel (RM1.50). I think that is a pretty reasonable price for the dim sum I had here and the service was good so I don’t mind paying the charge for it.
If you are look for a restaurant with good dim sum and nice ambiance in central KL, I would recommend Spring Garden.

This spot is next to the discovery center so we came here afterwards. It is kid friendly and we here for lunch. Didn’t get chance to look through the main menu but had their amazing dim sum. The congee was cooked to perfection w shredded fresh ginger and chicken. The steamed pork buns was delicious as both my 4 years old and 2 years old started to chow down. The shrimp har gow was so scrumptious I almost order another one. The service was highly attentive until it got extremely busy. We had a nice male waiter that kept coming to check on my tea and fill up my tea. I highly recommend this place for anyone that likes high quality Chinese cuisine. This was dim sum equivalent to best dim sums I had in Vancouver, Hong Kong and Los Angeles!

Chinese Cuisine at it’s best! these guys have some amazing side dishes from sauté vegetables with buttered prawns to the duck dishes! it’s just incredible! the roaster duck dishes are my favourite when it comes to Chinese restaurants. quite honestly reviewing about it now makes me crave another plate.
Food in Malaysia is great but what I learned is that you must go out there and explore it. I promised myself to explore every bit of and that I will not regret any of it! and this place was just epic! I enjoyed it! it’s one of those places I’ll be remembering for sure!

Spring Garden is a fine dining Chinese restaurant and even looks very expensive from the outside. I’ve only even been here about three times and all with a big group of friends. We usually order the buttered prawns, fried rice, Kai lan and of course the peking duck which is the highlight of Spring Garden. I really liked how the prepared and served the peking duck, similar to Duck King. The meat was moist and juicy, the skin crispy and so flavorful im salivating just thinking about it.
Spring Garden is expensive cause its a fancy place. The food however is worth the price. The ambiance is good but can get quite noisy when its a full house. If you’re looking to celebrate a special occasion with delicious chinese food then this is the place for you.