If you’re craving something different, the Din Tai Fung menu is worth a look for a more premium, precision-engineered take on the same soup-dumpling ritual — but Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao remains the homegrown heavyweight. Founded in Singapore in 1991, the Crystal Jade group grew into an award-winning Chinese culinary empire with…
Perched on Level 5 of PARKROYAL COLLECTION Marina Bay with bay views stretching past the windows, Peach Blossoms is where modern Chinese fine dining shows its most theatrical side. Executive Chef Edward Chong’s kitchen turns out elegantly plated Cantonese-rooted dishes — think black truffle cigar rolls and drunken crab noodles — in a serene, nature-inspired…
Pick your ingredients, pick your broth, pay by weight — Gong Yuan Mala Tang has been Singapore’s friendliest introduction to mala tang since 2017. The fixed per-100g pricing (no meat surcharges), the beloved tomato soup base and free-flow kimchi keep the outlets packed from lunch to late. Mala lovers with a hotpot habit should also…
Above the bustle of Hong Lim Complex, Yan Palace keeps the old Chinatown banquet-hall spirit alive — quaint decor, KTV-era charm, and dim sum that regulars defend fiercely. At around S$18+ per person, it is the rare traditional Chinese restaurant where the bill surprises in the right direction. Chinatown dim sum devotees often cross-shop with…
Inside Carlton Hotel, Wah Lok Cantonese Restaurant has been perfecting the same dim sum for decades — and the polo char siew bao alone justifies the pilgrimage. A crusty pineapple-bun top over fluffy dough and oozing barbecue pork: it is the dish loyalists describe in reverent tones. Classic dim sum lovers with a wide orbit…
Perched on Level 3 of Pan Pacific Singapore, Hai Tien Lo has spent years refining what traditional Cantonese dining looks like with a contemporary edge — and the refreshed menus under Executive Chinese Chef Edden Yap show it. Eight curated set menus start from S$98++ per person and climb to a S$238++ Chef’s Signature built…
Few dishes in Singapore command a table quite like a whole grilled fish bubbling in chilli broth, and how much is Tanyu in Singapore is the question every group asks before booking. The Shenzhen-born chain answers it plainly: from around S$42 for a 1.2kg fish, with 12 flavours spanning numbing green pepper to fiery Chongqing…
Sour, spicy and unapologetically numbing — the Tai Er menu in Singapore revolves around one legendary dish: suan cai yu, Chinese sauerkraut fish swimming in a fiery pickled-mustard-greens broth. Born in China with nearly 300 outlets, this Sichuan specialist landed at Jewel Changi, 313 Somerset and Suntec City, drawing daily queues of spice lovers. If…
Some CHIJMES tenants come and go; Lei Garden has been there since day one, and still going strong. The Hong Kong-born Cantonese institution anchors the historic former-convent complex with an impressive main dining hall, private rooms upstairs, and dim sum that Singaporeans rate among the city’s best. If you’re craving something different, the PUTIEN menu…
Fifty-five floors above Marina Bay, Jin Ting Wan turned Cantonese dining into a sky-high spectacle when it opened at Marina Bay Sands in mid-2025. This is fine-dining dim sum with serious theatre: hand-chopped beef balls with aged tangerine peel, radish puffs engineered like tiny handbags, and a black-gold custard bun that arrives molten and camera-ready….
