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Maple Palace Chinese Restaurant

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One of the Most Reviewed Fine dining restaurants in George Town


Address

47, Jln Sultan Ahmad Shah, George Town, 10050 George Town, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

Website

www.maplepalace.com

Contact

+60 4-227 9690

Price rating

$$$ $

Rating on Google Maps

4.30 (1.2K reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Tuesday: 12 to 2:30 PM, 6 to 10 PM
  • Wednesday: 12 to 2:30 PM, 6 to 10 PM
  • Thursday: 12 to 2:30 PM, 6 to 10 PM
  • Friday: 12 to 2:30 PM, 6 to 10 PM
  • Saturday: 12 to 2:30 PM, 6 to 10 PM
  • Sunday: 12 to 2:30 PM, 6 to 10 PM
  • Monday: 12 to 2:30 PM, 6 to 10 PM

Featured Reviews


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  • 4/5 Ooi Lye H. 1 year ago on Google
    Located in an elegant mansion along Penang's Millionaire Row, this non halal restaurant offers fine Chinese cuisine dining . Ample parking lots available within the business premises albeit with a nominal RM3 fee charged for each vehicle. Nice, clean and cozy environment and private rooms are available subject to availability. The dishes we ordered did not disappoint and staff service is impeccable. Prior booking is advisable especially on weekends.
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Evelyn 1 year ago on Google
    It's a great experience. The atmosphere is chill and cool, the service is unmatched and the food is absolutely delicious. We would like to come back here again.
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 ri o. 1 year ago on Google
    Eight of us had an unforgettable dinner here. Dishes were recommended by the staff. All eight courses were spot on. Service was impeccable. Thank you for such a nice meal. Well done. We love it.
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Jakey L. 1 year ago on Google
    Love the fish steamboat at Maple Palace, the soup base is just awesome. We were all delighted with the food. Food : 5/5 Drinks : 4/5 Service : 4/5 Price : 4/5 Ambience : 4/5
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 CK T. 1 year ago on Google
    One of the luxurious Chinese Restaurant located at prime club house. We tried the iberico ribs, fish nabe, grouper, peking duck, etc. The food quality is good and they provided excellent services. And ended with various kinds of Chinese and Local desserts. Price is on the very high side, as it is a premium Chinese restaurant. You will be able to find many excellent premium Chinese dishes served here. Parking is easily available. It is always recommended to make reservations before visiting the restaurant.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Jun Hol Y. 2 years ago on Google
    The food is fresh and the taste of the food is great. Recommended the prawns and the fish, but the salted fish pork not very nice.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Henry S. 3 years ago on Google
    One of the best Chinese fine dining resto in town. Good quality food, nice ambience and decor, general and private rooms, efficient staffs too. Nice to try new menu/item here. Tasty and fusion art. This is one of our fave resto; family or big reunion. Booking is required especially on weekend or holiday. Very recommended!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 FoodieDirectory 1 year ago on Google
    I was impressed with the setting and service. Food wise, ingredients were fresh. Most dishes were well done. But nothing stood out. What did stand out for the wrong reasons was the rubbery kampong chicken. Something isn’t quite right here. Lobster itself was sweet and large. Only problem was the noodles: Maggie mee. Seriously? Please have some class if you are going to charge that much.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Hooi Yin K. 1 year ago on Google
    Easy parking and nice environment. Can book for a room for private gathering or business discussion. Good service and food serve fast. Food taste ok but pricey. However, apply for free membership and eligible for 20% discount on your birthday month.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Jonah 1 year ago on Google
    Really delicious food and good service, fish head steamboat was very tasty and rich flavourful soup. Meatball and fishball were all bouncy and tasty. Can really taste the dried fish flavour. Peking duck was crispy and pancakes were freshly made. Service staff were helpful and attentive. Overall all the food was excellent, and ambience was nice too. Highly recommended for a nice meal. Desserts were all high quality too.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Layar J. 7 months ago on Google
    Close your eyes to the price, eat, enjoy life with a good meal. Then worry about payment. 😂 Jokes aside, I enjoyed my meal here. This is one of the few places that serve high quality, high end Chinese food. Unpretentious simple looking but generous and extremely tasty food. I totally enjoyed the soup. It's thick, it's flavourful, it's also filling with very generous ingredients and most importantly it smells great. If there's a dish I fully recommend, it's probably the crabshell crab cake. The crab meat is packed into the crab shell and baked. They used to bake it with cheese but they are trying a new method now. The crab meat filling is delicious and hard to put into words. Meanwhile the prawn ball is deep fried and combines perfectly with the accompanying thick, sweet and tangy sauce. Perfectly balanced flavour and enjoyable to eat. The peking duck meanwhile was average to me. Nothing spectacular that would make me drive a journey for. I surprisingly enjoyed the pork belly with preserved cabbage. Lots of pork pieces and generally meaty so that you don't feel guilty with the fat and skin. Cooked and seasoned exceptionally with the salty cabbage. Yummy. The dessert was also only average. But i like that it was sweetened just enough to be enjoyable and not excessively as some places do. In the end, what's important is that all the dishes and food clicked well and there was much more hits than misses. Superb place to have a meal.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Stacey C. 2 years ago on Google
    If you are in Penang and looking for superb and fine Chinese cuisines at a very comfortable and clean environment with ample parking space and attended by attentive staff serving you throughout your dining visit, head to this restaurant. You will never regretted.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Soo Hin Y. 9 months ago on Google
    Still one of the best dining venues in Penang for Chinese cuisine with ample parking. It is more expensive than most Chinese restaurants but offers a more upmarket atmosphere. Food is generally good but expect to pay RM150 per person. We love the steamed garoupa and fried pork belly.👍🏼
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 OY L. 1 year ago on Google
    Always a pleasure dining at Maple Palace. They serve good food. The prices can be a tad expensive but the food quality is there. Highly recommended the Iberico Pork Ribs - juicy and tasty, so palatable. However the size of the ribs is getting smaller and shorter over the years. Maybe they have replaced their old vendor. Overall, it’s a pleasant dining experience 👍🏻
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Jamie X.M L. 4 years ago on Google
    Love the food here. A bit pricy but the food taste delicious and serve hot. Service is good. Food presentation is very good. Location good, Easy to find parking. Will definitely come again.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 3/5 Chien Chai L. 4 years ago on Google
    Maple Palace Restaurant is my family favorite Chinese Restaurant. My parents just hosted a big lunch for their close friends a couple of weeks ago. Today we went back for a quiet family lunch. Many items on the menu were either out of stock or sold out. Due to last minute changes on the dishes, the four dishes all ended up with strong tasting sauces or gravies. The dishes are nice but.. we all find them a bit too saltish. They will be perfect if the cooks or chefs lay off the salt by 10-20% (in terms of flavoring).
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Bian O. 3 years ago on Google
    Ordered banquet dishes for my father's birthday celebration at home. Very friendly and prompt response from phone order enquiries. Easy online ordering system and very punctual delivery as promised. Very happy with the quality of food and level of service, highly recommend them.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 KMYeen 1 year ago on Google
    One of my flavour Chinese restaurants in Penang. Sweet & sour Iberico pork is so good. I finished my whole bowl of rice with this dish 😋

  • 5/5 Teo H. 1 year ago on Google
    I think we have found our new favourite Chinese restaurant. The food was excellent and unusually the menu was concise with enough choice to satisfy most tastes. The Spanish iberico char siew excellent and the mains faultless. All in all a very pleasant meal.

  • 5/5 Tommy Y. 1 year ago on Google
    Excellent Peking duck for the money! It would have cost at least 3-4 times the price here in the US. Also ordered three other dishes and family throughly cleaned everything! Will repeat for sure when we are back! Restaurant requires a reservation so plan ahead and remember to make it a few days in advance.

  • 4/5 Shereen 9 months ago on Google
    Excellent service. Staff were friendly and service was fast. Food were very tasty and flavorful. Highly recommend their Peking duck, crispy chicken with glutinous rice, lotus root and macadamia nuts, braised fish maw with fortune bag and fried Cabbage with pork belly. However, it's very pricy. Peanut cost RM8. Tidbits cost RM16. Water per person = RM2 Wet towel per person = RM2 Steam white rice = RM5 per/bowl

  • 3/5 Joseph L. 5 months ago on Google
    Very nice ambience, spacious, friendly to physically challenged. Food is chinese fine dining. Pricey. Quality acceptable, portion is small but I think main selling point is ambience.

  • 5/5 Eric W. 8 months ago on Google
    Excellent quality food, fresh and creative. Kudos to the chef. Very attentive friendly service staff with good initiatives. Great atmosphere especially holding birthday/ anniversary events. Deserves 5 stars in all ratings. Will definitely visit again.

  • 5/5 Chong Peng H. 6 months ago on Google
    Every dish we had was very good! Some unique dishes like the fish maw chicken on a lotus leaf, the assam prawn with bread, and the classic Beijing Roast Duck. Worth a trip to George Town for sure!

  • 5/5 Vivien K. 4 months ago on Google
    Best Chinese restaurant. Steamed Cod fish was the highlight for me on top of all the other yummy dishes we ordered.

  • 5/5 SM 5 months ago on Google
    had a good dining experience, pricey but worth the price if you are looking for high end, good quality Chinese cuisines.

  • 5/5 Kim C. 10 months ago on Google
    The beef in second picture was tastefully, tenderly and carefully cooked with the right temperature and texture. Outstanding 👍! Well done Maple Palace and thank you for your creative and innovative Menu, we will come for more!! Ausgezeichnetes Essen und ich werde wiederkommen!!

  • 3/5 SZ L. 9 months ago on Google
    Food here is more on the finer side. The taste were more refined definitely and you can taste the effort the chefs put in to their dishes. I wouldn't recommend the shark fin soup as the taste wasn't as refined. The stock was too salty and one dimensional, and the 'taugeh' was not crunchy but rather soggy. Their neighborhood dishes like tofu / sweet and sour pork, do stand out above the rest. I would highly recommend the crabmeat tofu as they used a combination on cooked eggs and uncooked eggs which resulted in a very silky sauce. The Peking duck was also quite good. I love how the wrap was done with an eggy flavor instead of the traditional thin skin. The one thing that really did not sit well with me were the staff. The manager was in a rush to place the order, the waiters were always wanting to clear plates of food that we have not finished eating, but yet did not bother to change the heavily sauced plates in front of us, and also had to be told everytime our cups of tea was empty. They had 3 different staff waiting on us and a few other tables. It was a mess. At a restaurant with this price point, usually there will be one waiter in charge of your table so you dont need to mention everything twice or more. It doesn't feel good when you have 3 different people collecting plates of unfinished food and you have to keep telling them that your not finished. The best thing is they can laugh about it after they were informed, but did not bother to share this info on the first round. There are other issues which transpired negatively as well but I shall not go into it. Safe to say I have been to numerous Chinese fine dining / casual dining but this is the first time a restaurant had left me with such a bad impression in terms of service. I get it, this is a business, a restaurant selling good food. But most restaurants at this price point value service over food, which to me, this restaurant failed horribly at. In summary, Great food / good atmosphere / horrible or bad service.

  • 4/5 Nel N. 1 year ago on Google
    Ambience: 5/5 Food: 4/5 Service: 4/5 Price: too expensive Maybe because the name of the restaurant has the word “palace” so the dishes are exceptionally expensive. We really do not mind paying for expensive food when they are good though. But the prices are really overzealous! Worth a visit but we are pretty sure there are other restaurants out there serving equally good food.

  • 5/5 Nicole N. 1 year ago on Google
    Beautiful 🤩 building well preserved lies maple palace with fusion twist to the typical Chinese menu, totally new gastronomic experience here. Loving every single dishes! The beautiful longevity pao with intricate art design was made by hand calligraphy just amazes me! 🥰😘🥰🤩 Thank You we shall be back soon Maple Palace!! 😉😘😉

  • 5/5 Luah B. 2 years ago on Google
    Clean environment, friendly staffs with great service (special thanks to Mdm Lim Siew Lean). Nice and tasty Chinese cuisine. Recommended.

  • 4/5 Allen T. 2 years ago on Google
    Plenty of private rooms (with no min spent) available. Dishes are excellent, not ordinary!

  • 5/5 James L. 2 years ago on Google
    Pandemic time, so only take away. Food 9-10 Service 10-10 Hygiene 10-10 Prices restaurants price Fresh food, and delicious

  • 5/5 Sam “Green Eggs & Ham” S. 4 years ago on Google
    Marvelous new age Chinese cuisine with the finest ingredients. The only problem is getting a booking. They're always coming up with new dishes to supplement their outstanding range of traditional and fusion items. The food is well prepared and the service is impeccable. They also have seasonal items, like the fried durian desserts, but if it's not your cup of tea then their staple desserts are also decent (try the mango sago). Parking is aplenty for RM3 and the restaurant is spacious, with private rooms and lavish decorations. Pricing is fine dine level, so be prepared.

  • 4/5 Yeoh S. 3 years ago on Google
    Delicious Chinese food 😋👍

  • 5/5 Rikki 3 years ago on Google
    The food and service are great, definitely going to return! I suggest booking in advance as it gets full quite easily (I forgot to take photos of the food loll).

  • 5/5 Lim Eng S. 3 years ago on Google
    Thanks Loy n your team for great food n service


Call +60 4-227 9690 Open on Google Maps

Amenities


  • Parking
    • ✓️ Paid parking lot
    • ✓️ Plenty of parking
  • Payments
    • ✓️ Debit cards
    • ✓️ Credit cards
    • ✓️ NFC mobile payments
  • Offerings
    • ✓️ Beer
    • ✓️ Wine
    • ✓️ Alcohol
  • Accessibility
    • ✓️ Wheelchair accessible seating
    • ✓️ Wheelchair accessible entrance
    • ✓️ Wheelchair accessible restroom
    • ✓️ Wheelchair accessible parking lot
  • Dining options
    • ✓️ Lunch
    • ✓️ Dinner
    • ✓️ Dessert
  • Service options
    • ✓️ Dine-in
    • ✓️ Takeout
    • ✓️ Delivery

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