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Tallest ‘Yusheng’ ever. [Review of Xi Yan Restaurant]

February 15, 2011 by Zoe Leave a Comment

For this year’s family dinner, we headed down to Xi Yan Restaurant at 38A Craig Road.

Excellent choice for business dining, family/friends gatherings and other private events as they only have 6 tables in total. The whole experience was fantastic, and I can say it’s the most exquisite food I’ve ever tasted.

Neatly tucked away in a row of shophouses along Craig Road, Xi Yan Restaurant was hard to find. I climbed up a flight of stairs with little candles laid by the side and when I opened the door into the restaurant, I stepped into a quaint little space decorated with paintings and rich red velvet drapes. There were vases of flowers placed in the centre of the tables.

Enough of the place, now the food!

The menu for our 10-course dinner; I was pleasantly surprised that they even had a customized menu ‘for Mr David Lau & Guests’!

 

Xi Yan’s signature Yusheng

This is the tallest and tastiest yusheng I’ve ever eaten! The tower of salmon sashimi topped with roe totally rocks! Plus the salad greens, wild rockets etc really made this yusheng a refreshing combination.

 

The completed yusheng, ready to be tossed high and rough!

They used different ceramic cups for each person, made it feel homely :)

Golden oyster nuggets in tarocurd sauce

This was really yummy! The oyster was juicy without a fishy taste. The presentation is just lovely, with the oyster set in little paper boats.

Greenhouse Tomatoes in Wasabi Sesame Sauce

This has to be their best-selling dish! The tomatoes were so sweet, and the special homemade sesame sauce made it so deliciously fragrant. I bet even if you disliked tomatoes, you’d fall in love with this.

Stir-fried Kimchi Prawns with ‘Nian Gao’

I loved this too! The yellow sauce is actually cheese, so this dish is cheesy and savoury. There was no usual strong sour taste of kimchi, it tasted more like pickled cabbage. But this was the portion served for about 10 people, so I only had 2 prawns, some niangao and a kimchi! I want more!

Roast Chicken with Kaffir Lime Leaf

Fantastic. The skin roasted to a golden crisp, and the meat tender and flavourful. Loved it!!

Zhenjiang Spareribs

I heard that this dish had to be ordered 2 weeks before date of dinner! It’s sweet (maybe a bit too sweet for my liking), and tasted a bit like brown sugar marinated spareribs. But good nonetheless :)

Shrimp paste Fish with Pomelo Sauce

The fish was a little dry, but the sauce was good. It’s really interesting to use pomelo for sauce, but I can say it worked.

Abalone Ginseng Chicken soup

Stir-fried Mushrooms with Pickled Cucumber

Palm Sugar Ice Cream on Pandan Rice with Coconut Cream

This totally rocks. I’ve never tasted such a nice ice-cream combination ever. Imagine, ice-cream with glutinous rice?! But here it is! I would love to go back for this again, cuz you can’t find it anywhere else.

The wines and champagnes for the night.

My uncle is a wine connoisseur and dinners with him cannot go without excellent wines and champagnes. I love dinners with him cuz that means I get to drink top-notch wines :)

Ending the flawless experience with a toast!

There, there’s the host on the extreme right, leading with the toast.

This is private dining at its finest. Get to know more about Xi Yan at their website here.

I’m already thinking to book my first reservation with them when I get my first pay-check. ;)

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Posted in: Food, Holidays, Reviews, Singapore Tagged: champagne, Greenhouse tomato, Moet and Chandon, private dining, Xi Yan Singapore, Yusheng

Geylang Food Map: No Signboard Restaurant

February 8, 2011 by Zoe Leave a Comment

Chinese New Year wasn’t so bad after all, partly because there’s all that FOOD we get to eat only once a year, for e.g. grandma’s cooking, and all that restaurants that we go to for seafood dinners. It was crazy! Constant eating, and I’m not exaggerating.

No Signboard seafood restaurant (geylang)

CHILLI CRAB!! I LOVED THE SAUCE WITH MANTOU!!!

 

CRAYFISH WITH SALTED EGG YOLK PASTE. AWESOMELY DELICIOUS.

 

My CRAB BEEHOON :)

 

Didn’t take many photos, cuz I still can’t find my camera battery’s charger! It’s lost somewhere at home under some pile of my sister’s books. Hence relying on my trusty iPhone camera now. I really tried to look for it, so from this you can tell that my house is atrociously messy. That’s why nobody is allowed to come to my house for CNY! My mother’s orders.

Anyway, it seemed like the rabbit’s warm and soft nature took over from the feisty fierce tiger as the year ended. I could feel the change, because I felt more willing to talk to my mother when I realized that she isn’t as forceful on me as before. I hope our relations will improve this year. Gotta give and take.

FOUR days of eating and CNY is still not over yet. Haha, there’s another family dinner this coming saturday. Good food and wine awaiting :)

Lastly, Bear Bear wishes to say, “HAPPY NEW YEAR AND GOOD HEALTH TO EVERYONE!” :)

What a cute little cuddly thing :) I love it.

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