Xin Cuisine Chinese Restaurant (Holiday Inn)

Outram Rd, Holiday Inn Atrium, Singapore 169075
6731 7173
Operating Hours:
Mon - Sat: 12:00 - 14:30
Mon - Sat: 18:30 - 22:30
Sun: 10:30 - 14:30
Sun: 18:30 - 22:00

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This is one of the participating restaurants under the Palate Card.
In order to be entitled to 50% discount, you will need to order 2 main courses and 2 diners.

We were excited to try out as this is a popular dim sum restaurant.
It has a nice fine dining ambience.

However, it not meet my expectations as I was expecting a finer touch to the dim sum. The skin of the dim sum is rather thick. There is no wow factor..

For dim sum, we ordered some of the specialties, i.e. 

• Scallop dumpling with dragonfruit in salted egg yolk sauce 
• Baked Abalone Tart
• Custard Bun

Tim Ho Wan

Tim Ho Wan

Plaza Singaura #01-29A

10am to 10pm (Mon to Fri) ; 9am to 10pm (Weekend and Public Holidays)

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After hearing the reports of extremely long queues and that it is a Michelin star restaurant, I was hoping to wait for the hype to sizzle down a bit before trying it.

At Tim Ho Wan, there are the Top 4 Heavenly Dim Sum:
1. Vermicelli Roll with Pig Liver - $5.50
2. Baked Bun with BBQ Pork - $4.50

3. Pan Fried Carrot Cake - $4.50

4. Steamed Egg Cake - $3.80

I love the Vermicelli Roll with Pig Liver ($5.50)  This is a new flavour that I have tried as this usually comes with either prawns or BBQ meat. The pig liver was soft and slightly reddish.

The Baked Bun with BBQ Pork ($4.50) is similar to a Po Lo BBQ meat bun. However, the meat used is large chunks char siew. This is more generous than the usual minced char siew served as most restaurants.

Pan Fried Carrot Cake ($4.50) is good if you like to taste the taste of the carrots. It goes well with the chilli sauce with bean paste.

And finally, steamed egg cake ($3.80) . The texture is soft and fluffy. You can also taste the gula melaka. Prior to this, I do not really fancy this dish at a dim sum place as it is bland and tasteless.

One thing that I liked about this Tim Ho Wan is that it provides styrofoam boxes and paper bags for you to pack your favourite items home. If you are a small eater and likes variety, this is really the place to go!

Will I come back?

Yes, but maybe in a few weeks time as I went to Tim Ho Wan twice in a single week. 

Feng shui Inn

Went for dim sum at Feng Shui Inn again. 

This time round, we ordered some interesting dim sum, in addition to our usual orders.  

Pineapple Bun (i.e. Bo Lo Bun) - I love the filling - the char siew is chunky and the sauce is very thick!

Fried Carrot Cake - I do not really like this. Huge chucks and dry

Sliced fish 

Chestnut drink

Lobster puff - sweet and savoury

My Ramblings... 

Somehow, I felt that their standard dropped a bit. 

The ambience does not feel as luxurious anymore. 

One good example is the side dishes served.
Previously, their side dishes has scallop in it. 

Now, there is nothing (my earlier entry)

Luxurious Dinner Feng Shui Inn

But, all the cutlery are from Narumi.

Lei Garden Chijmes

Finally tried the dim sum at the famous Lei Garden at Chijmes.

Was greeted by this when we entered the restaurant.
P.S - It is still alive. The eyes were moving. Ewww..

Table setting

Har Gau

Xiao Long Bao

Egg Tarts

Chee Cheong Fun

Siew Mai

Fried Carrot Cake

Char Siew Bao

Custard Bun - Not used to the chocolate taste though.

Roast Pork

Baked Puff Pastry

Fried Chee Cheong Fun - Quite an interesting dish I must say. Feels a bit like eating new year cake. 

Crystal dumplings - Nice but do not really like the texture of it

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My Ramblings...

As you notice, we always ordered the same old dishes at every dim sum place.
This helps to benchmark against other dim sum restaurants that we go to.

Lei Garden is at the same level as Crystal Jade Palace.
Slightly more expensive dim sum.

I am however not very impressed that they use the wrong character for Singapore. The first word is wrong already. It should be 新 and not 星!!!!

Prima Deli Revolving Restaurant

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My Ramblings...
The food is good and the place is nostalgic.
Used to come here quite often when I was here.
Taking the lift 9th floor was the highlight when I was young.

I like their porridge as it is not those blended type.
The roast pork used in the chee cheong fun was the tasty type.

Luxurious Dim Sum @ Feng Shui Inn at Crockfords Hotel

Baked BBQ Pork Pastry and Century Egg Porridge

Har Gau

Xiao Long Bao

Siew Mai

Scallop Dumpling

Char Siew Bao

Chee Cheong Fun with Prawns

Glutinous Rice with Conpoy




Rating


My Ramblings...
I am very impressed with the Glutinous Rice.
One of the best I ever had.
It has dried scallops and Chinese sausage air flown from Hong Kong (p.s. Chinese sausage from Hong Kong has a wine taste in it).

The rest of the dim sum is average only.
Not very impressed with the steamed food because it sticks to the plate easily.

This meal cost approximately $150...