Mayim Chinese Cuisine

Went over to Mayim at Northpoint on two occasions. The first occasion was to have dinner on a Friday.

Has anyone tried the peanuts (left) before?

Here's what we ordered.Interesting cup that helps to filter out the tea leaves. If you are interested in getting one, I the shop name and address is in the first photo. However, I feel that for a lazy person like me, I will find it a hassle to keep removing the filter before drinking.

‘Sou Mei’ Tea with Wolfberry Fruits was fragrant and wolfberry provides lots of health benefits. You can request for the waiter/waitress to refill with hot water whenever you have finished drinking it.The Soup ‘La Mian’ topped with slices of classic marinated chickenas promised came with the la mian and chicken in the soup. The la mian is similar to the likes of crystal jade, however, it was slightly harder. The chicken was well marinated; fragrant and tender despite being soaked in the soup. Thought that the chicken was delicious! Disappointingly, the soup base was a tad too salty. This dish would have been great and healthy if it was less salty and vegetables was added.The Spiced flavoured ‘la mian’ was topped with minced pork, peanut, seasame & preserved vegetable served in dry with special meat sauce. It was amazing delicious on the first few mouthfuls. However, towards the end, it got too spicy for us. If you have a good tolerance for spicy food, this is a good bet.

Overall, a decent place. During peak periods (weekends), be prepared to queue. Service was prompt and decent.

On the second occasion, went over on a Thursday night for dinner. There was no queue and inside the restaurant, it was half full. I thought that I will like this Poached vegetables garnished with mushrooms dish. After all, how bad can you go when you have 3 kinds of mushrooms for a mushroom fan. Sadly, this dish was too salty that it overwhelmed the fragrance of the mushrooms. The shredded ham was quick tough. The chicken on the other hand was well marinated. Soft, fragrant and tender. Realised from this visit and the previous that chicken seems to be one of their better dishes.Well, the Sauteed Sliced Fish was quite oily. Felt that the flavours of different ingredients were not brought out, resulting in the fish slices being tasteless. Can't even taste the sweetness of the fish. And should it not be fried sliced garlic? Felt that this dish is not value for money. I am sure you can taste better ones at better prices.The soup was really average. Felt that it was again overpriced and not valued for money despite the many ingredients. Somehow, the taste of the ingredients was overwhelmed by the amount of sodium. Of course, rice was ordered to go along with these items.

During this second visit, I was quite disappointed with some of their food. However, the positive side is that I realised that their marinated chicken is delicious. This time round their service was not that ideal. Had to call repeatedly before someone came to take our order. In addition, despite us asking for the rice to be served after the first dish came. The rice came only after all our dishes arrive despite us asking for it twice.

Detailed review: http://foodiefc.blogspot.sg/2011/10/mayim-north-point.html

What a feast at Mayim!! It's Chinese style dinner so we ordered to share. More fun "fighting" food with your friends right? So we ordered the crispy pork belly, stir fry beef with garlic, Salad prawns, and crispy fish. The pork belly was really fatty and not something to eat often. But nice to sin once in a while. The beef in garlic was nice! My beef crazy friend was snatching up half the plate. The prawns and fish was quite normal.

2012-11-10

Shang Hai style Fired La Mian
La Mian is Q
Fried with shredded pork with little bit mushroom piece and black fungus
it also fried with fresh Chinese cabbage
This fried La mian is tasty
not too salty
Satisfying

should try their pan fried pork dumpling "guo tie"
it is juicy inside the dumpling

and blend jasmine tea with rose bud
NICE !!

the environment is good
with good service

2012-09-11

Mayim serves quite delectable Chinese food and I will frequently come here with my hubby if we wanted to have Chinese food. Just a week ago, we came here for dinner and ordered several dishes to share. Two particular dishes that I love are the poached vegetable with chicken sauce and the baked spicy chicken wing.
The poached vegetable with chicken sauce is very nice. I like the special sauce that accompanies the vegetables. It is so much nicer than using oyster sauce. The baked spicy chicken wing is very tasty. The seasoning used is just right, not too salty or bland and the spicyness does get you if you eat a lot. Moreover, it being baked meant that it is much healthier and I would always order this dish when I am there.

did not have a very nice meal at the other outlet but my friend want to eat at mayim again so i just go ahead with it. this time we ordered some side dishes to share, they were ok but i think the steam tofu with egg tasted not bad, quite smooth and refreshing. but i think the best so far was the prawn chee chong fun that we ordered. the prawns were quite fresh so was slightly crunchy and the skin was smooth and tasted nice with the soya sauce

went down to mayim for lunch cause my friend want to eat there. i think the place is quite similar to crystal jade but the variety of food was quite different. i ordered the you tiao chee chong fun (炸两) to try since this dish is very rare in singapore. i think the taste was not too bad, quite comparable to what i ate in hong kong. but i felt the you tiao was slightly over fried so it was a little big too hard but on the whole, the dish was still not bad

We had a leisure afternoon tea at Mayim. They serve a range of chinese cuisine from stir fried dishes to la mian to rice to dim sums. We ordered only three dishes, the red bean pancake with banana, egg tarts and the chee cheong fun.

The egg tarts have a flaky crust which made it very yummy due to the contrasting textures of the smooth egg custard and the crust. The red bean pancake is simply overflowing with the generous amount of red bean when you bite into it. Red bean and banana combination couldn't be better. Lastly we had the chee cheong fun with filling. The chee cheong fun is very smooth and simply glides down your throat. We also liked the accompanying sauce for it as it isn't too saltish.

SGD 8

Mum's not cooking this weekend as dad is overseas! Hence I suggested that we lunch at Mayim Chinese restaurant at Northpoint.

As we reached the restaurant before 12pm we did not have to queue but there were already many tables filled. Is the food here really good? I wondered.... ;)

Anyway we decided that we would order 2 staples: 1 rice, 1 noodle, and 3 sides to share amongst 5 of us, instead of having individual courses. So here's what we had:

1. Braised E-fu Noodle with Shredded Fresh Mushroom ($10++)

I forgot to take picture of this dish, but it was the best dish we thought we ordered. Hehe. It was a simple dish that was very tasty albeit a bit too oily.

2. Fragrance Stone Bowl Rice ($10.50++)

Compared to the e-fu noodles, this tasted so bland. The stone bowl rice came with minced pork, shredded mushroom, kiyuri, onions, eggs and carrot. It was like a Korean dolsot bibimbap except there was no nice chilli sauce, so maybe that's why it was pretty tasteless. Quite an irony that the english name of this dish is called "Fragrance Stone Bowl Rice" haha.

3. Pan fried Beancurd Sheet with Shredded Mushroom & Carrot ($5.80++)

This is a vegetarian dish, wrapped in beancurd sheet. Other than being quite oily like the e-fu noodles, it was still nice. The beancurd sheet was pan-fried till crispy. Oh btw this dish has a fanciful Chinese name - Suzhou Su-Er (literally vegetarian goose ).

4. Tofu with Picked Cabbage & Spinach ($9.80++)

The tofu was very silky smooth and as they were cut into small pieces, I felt like they could melt in the mouth. It was stir-fried with french beans, picked cabbage & spinach. Not bad too.

5. Deep Fried Mashed Beancurd Ball ($5++)

I like this dish, as the deep fried mashed beancurd ball was stuffed with mushroom, water chestnut, and carrot served in oyster sauce. Crunchy (probably due to the water chestnut) yet chewy & bouncy texture. The dishes here are generally quite oily, guess it's because China Dongbei cuisine are cooked in such a way. So we got quite full even before we could finish all the dishes.

Fortunately there was the pickled cabbage which was a refreshing appetiser to rid that oily feel. The pickled cabbage was charged to each table at 50 cents per person, but it's worth it because it is refillable. Yummy! We can even buy the bottle of picked cabbage home for $6 per bottle.

To end our lunch on a sweet note, we also ordered 2 desserts to share:

1. Mango Pomelo dessert ($4.50++)

2. D24 Durian Pudding ($5++)

Both desserts were yummy! They used real fruit bits for these 2 desserts, and we could bite into mango and pomelo bits for the first dessert and durian meat for the pudding. Very satisfying choices that I am glad we picked to end the lunch hehe.

Oh btw, the Chinese name for the first dessert was quite fun too. Instead of the usual Yang Zhi Gan Lu name, it was called Yan ZHU Gan Lu, "zhu" for "Pearl".

2012-03-17

SGD 13(Lunch)

In Singapore, there is an abundance of places that serve up chinese fare, but there are only some who make the cut. In Yishun, I think that Mayim deserves the title of the best Chinese restaurant, as it really serves up such good food, and I have never once been disappointed. This time when my family patronised this place, we ordered stewed pork, pan-fried gyozas, tofu with mushrooms and beancurd skins (wow extremely soft and bite-worthy!), claypot eggplant with thin sliced pork, tofu, mushrooms and minced beef, and some mock duck vegetarian dish. All of the dishes were absolutely tasty, full of flavour, great sauces and gravies, the meat was so juicy and tender, mushrooms were not hard, I just have to say, that all the dishes were fantastic! Definitely recommend for those fond of Chinese food.

Had late lunch at mayim and ordered my favourite minced pork ramen which is called zha jiang mian as well. However, the standard dropped a little compared to the first time I ate. Portion is big and it was really filling. Service was not up to standard that day and the waitresses seemed quite unwilling to serve us. However, ambience is good and the restaurant is quiet. A good place to have high tea with friends.

Tried their la mian this time round, i forgot what's the name of this la mian but it's some la mian with a special peanut sauce and sesame with minced meat.

I'm not a lover of peanut, in fact i hate sesame too. But because i didn't read the menu carefully, i kind of ordered the wrong thing. But when i had my first try, i find it rather nice!

The noodles do not have a strong sesame taste but it's quite feeling! So if you do not want to be so full, you can choose the dry version which i think all dry noodles taste better in mayim and also it's also a little more expensive than the soup base noodles.

SGD 10(Dinner)

Visited this restaurant a few weeks ago, and I'm back to say that their la mian (handmade noodles), are really good, it has a firm and smooth texture, a tasty soup base, and the meat was real delectable! I ordered a vinegar pork rib la mian, they actually have many different types of meats to go with the noodles, so it really appeals to the masses. The vinegar pork had just the right amount of seasoning, flavour, and it was succulent. Their teas are good and relatively cheap as well, costing only about $1.

If you're ever in the neighbourhood, and you're craving for some good ol' cantonese fare, hop over to Mayim's restaurant which offers a wide variety of dishes to suit your taste, even serving up 'la mian' which is very tasty and delicious, also having such good teas like 'rosebud tea' at only $1! They have interesting meats like, deer meat, and also beef with cheese, which is extremely yummy! Eggplant with minced beef is another favourite of mine, and also, you MUST try the pork with dragonfruit and strawberry slices, it is of utmost awesomeness in my opinion, vastly unique, and vivaciously delicious!

Mayim restaurant has cleverly made use of marketing strategies and make it name known to most of the auntie in Yishun.

Hence, my mum is also one of the "auntie" that knew mayim ! LOL

because of their promotional effort. We got $100 vouchers ( $50 each) .

Therefore, we invited our cousin to go dining at Mayim and have a small family gathering.

We ordered :

Roasted duck served with marinated peanuts $6

Calamari Ring (PRAWN) $9

Tofu with avocado cream $9

cod fish with jap sauce $15

Vegetables served in a pot (code number 130) $9.50

Homemade cabbage $2.50

Mango Pudding $3.50

Sponge cake $3.50

Mango & pomelo sago $3.50

Durian pudding $4

ALL the dishes were simply OIISHI !!!

And we feel that the pricing was affortable too.

the only awful thing is the service.

Is not that the waitress service is bad. But is rather the way they manage the business.

First, there do not have a fixed attendant standing at one counter. when you want to order the food you must see who is available for there for you to order food.

Next, they really wasting the ordering paper. I do not understand that why can't they just add-on to our previous order. why must they use a new paper ? Aren't this world is moving toward green? ok , maybe i am too green !

Lastly, when we ask for the bill, to our horror , the manager told us that we cannot use the voucher together. * The voucher's T&C did not state that the voucher cannot be use together...nevermind about the T&C, the waitress knew that we are using the voucher way beforehand but no one come forward and inform us. it was till we ask for billing....well....i feel abit of getting con !

Well well .....leave all this bad experience there.

since we have another $50 voucher to use....we plan to use it today ...so we reserve the table again . We reserve it at 6pm but the waitress told us that we must be able to finish dinning at 8pm...well that leave us one and a half hour to dine....ok imagine, you order food and they serve food . this take half and hour * esp during peak hour serving food can be slow...we left 1 hour to dine. and i question myself, will we be enjoying ourselves if we were to be make finish dining within 1 hour .

FINE ! THAT's IT ! in the end we cancel the reserving.

CONCLUSION : there is no coordination in the restaurant even though the food is really nice but the service attitude....NAH !

I was shopping at North Point and decided to have lunch at Mayim, which is my favourite chinese cusine restaurant. I've never been to the outlet at North Point but the standard of the food was surprisingly just as good as the outlet at West Mall. Anyway, I tried one of the appetisers for the first time. Its jelly fish with shredded mushroom, celery, carrot and bean thread topped with shredded chicken. The combination was very refreshing but it would have been better if there were some kind of sauce to go with it. Makes an excellent side dish actually. And of course, I had xiao long bao. Unfortunately, the price has increased yet again along with the whole menu changed. Mayim changed their menu and now its better organised and some new dishes were introduced.

Definitely looking forward to trying some of the new main dishes.

Price of appetiser: $5.50
Price of Xiao Long Bao: $0.80/piece (minimum 3 pieces)

2011-10-09