Delayed Dim Sum and Dutch Dessert

- January 30, 2021

What to do on the first day of 2021? Go eat dim sum of course! Nearly half of the people of Kuala Lumpur had the same brilliant thought. Mum and I arrived at Oriental Treasure, The Sphere at a little before noon. The situation was out of the ordinary because there was a long queue at the door. Opps. Many had made called earlier and were checking their reservations. Although mum and I were walk-ins, it was easy for us to secure a table because we were only two. From our table we could see more and more people arriving by the minute. By noon, we put in our order. Our appetizer of wasabi jellyfish came pretty quickly. The wu kok took much longer than expected. The staff were running up and down. They were obviously understaffed. Then we saw a very peculiar scene. One of the large tables close to us had asked for the bill. There was only tea on the table. At about a quarter before one, the staff started turning people away at the door:

"We have run out of dim sum!"

Oh! I never thought I would hear that at a dim sum restaurant! Nearly giggled out loud. Don't know what possessed them to take so many reservations, and not prepare enough food. After some chasing, our soup dumplings finally arrived. We had one more order of cod fish dumplings, but we knew that it was not coming. Paid the bill and left. It was one thing to turn people away, but to tell customers that their food wasn't coming... is another matter.

I was about 60% full when I left Oriental Treasure. Did a little walking around (it didn't take long) before we stopped at Koffie Kraft. The friendly proprietress greeted us at the door and ushered us to a table. I ordered a pumpkin latte (highly recommended) and a Maastricht Waffle Plus, which was a decadent platter of Dutch waffles, with two scoops of ice cream, cubed mango, blackcurrant compote, and caramel sauce. That really did the trick.