Review on Jade Palace Seafood Restaurant, Paragon Gurney Penang.

During my recent visit to Penang in Oct-Nov, we saw a newly opened seafood restaurant in Gurney Paragon shopping mall. 

The first ever restaurant- Jade Palace was originally at Aboo Siti Lane inside Wisma Chocolate. It is famous for catering weddings and luxurious banquet dinners. Now it has opened its 2nd branch at Gurney Paragon S/C at the corner far end beside Padini store.


My brother has decided to give us a treat for nice lunch on a Saturday noon as we were contemplating to whether Japanese food at Rakuzen or chinese banquet. So we finally headed to Jade Palace. 





The place is brand new and well litted. It was only 11.30am so the staffs were only getting dressed up and also having their quick lunch since there are only 2 tables of customers. Mom did all the ordering for the food. We had salted egg prawns, stir fry scallops with vege, sweet pork ribs topped with almond flakes, steamed red snapper in their special spicy sauce & ginger and lastly braised japanese tofu in crab meat.

The dishes turned out to be quite good and delicious. Although we had to wait for a while for the cooks and staffs to officially get dressed up and started cooking, it was alright. Full blast air-con, warm tea served and nice comfy seats in new environment- we didn't mind it at all.
And what's the damage? My brother foot the bill and it was RM270.00.

 

The whole steamed red snapper costs RM80 (market price since seafood is expensive).
The scallops were also expensive but most of all is the 6% GST and service charge, braised peanuts and tea that costs the most! Tea, wet towels and peanuts were like RM10+ over.
Recently with the introduction of GST, it costs havoc everywhere as the public were literally cursing the useless Govt for imposing and feeding the PM's wife expenses. How true!
No doubt I don't agree having GST in Malaysia since its economy is so weak especially the Ringgit is nothing compared to major currencies.

Anyway overall the food experience at Jade Palace Paragon was satisfying.

Ambience- 8/10
Food- 7.5/10
Price- 8.5/10 (Expensive though)
Service: 8/10

Try it for yourself as a little treat for some occasion and you can order cheaper dishes if you don't feel like splurging out a lot.