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Salmon Yu Sheng

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Remember the days where get together as a family or even when you visit your grandparents house with your relatives for a reunion meal?Yes! Now besides cooking at home, you can get your traditional Chinese New Year dishes over here at Yum Cha Restaurant right to your doorsteps.Reduce your after meal house chores with Yum Cha Delivery or Takeaway. Check out some of the dishes we get to taste with OpenRice Singapore over here:Full review on temporary Facebook Album: https://www.facebook.com/media/

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Remember the days where get together as a family or even when you visit your grandparents house with your relatives for a reunion meal?
Yes! Now besides cooking at home, you can get your traditional Chinese New Year dishes over here at Yum Cha Restaurant right to your doorsteps.
Reduce your after meal house chores with Yum Cha Delivery or Takeaway. Check out some of the dishes we get to taste with OpenRice Singapore over here:
Full review on temporary Facebook Album:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1680484178896392.1073741861.1651241738487303&type=1&l=d1765fc075

Let me rank the dishes over here:
Besides Yu Sheng which is usually the most fun to begin with..

1) Suckling Pig - no one can resist its crackling skin
2) Braised Pig's Trotter with 'Fatt Choy' (Black Moss) - what i liked about it is the soft texture of both the meat and the skin!
3) Fried Crispy Chicken / Fried Rice with Chinese Sausage in Lotus Leaf
I like the chilli sauce and the crisp of the chicken while some parts of the chicken can be more juicy or tender while for the rice, some people prefer it to be 'more cooked'.

Salmon Yu Sheng

(The above review is the personal opinion of a user which does not represent OpenRice's point of view.)

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Dim sum has been 1 of the top food choice for most Singaporeans, especially restaurants that served very good delicious ones. Yum Cha came into our local market with teahouse concept from Year 2000 and was now one of the leading dim sum big players in Singapore. Main restaurant was at Chinatown, the other 2 outlets at "Serangoon garden country club" and changi "UeBizhub East" respectively.Dim sum delivery services were also available, under "Yum Cha Express", you could conveniently get your favo

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Dim sum has been 1 of the top food choice for most Singaporeans, especially restaurants that served very good delicious ones. Yum Cha came into our local market with teahouse concept from Year 2000 and was now one of the leading dim sum big players in Singapore. Main restaurant was at Chinatown, the other 2 outlets at "Serangoon garden country club" and changi "UeBizhub East" respectively.

Dim sum delivery services were also available, under "Yum Cha Express", you could conveniently get your favourite dim sum right at your doorstep. Practicing "cook-tek" method to keep all delivery food warm and moist, you can still expect quality food even though they were"tabao"!

Yum Cha Express Takeaway Drink

As lunar new year is approaching soon, Yum Cha restaurants will be launching their 2016 Chinese New Year (CNY) menus this week together with CNY takeaway menus. These festive menus available from 15th Jan 2016- 22nd Feb 2016. Good news for families whom like to stay indoors for their reunion dinner, beat the crowd and order Yum Cha takeaways. Great food options for CNY gatherings with friends too.

Some highlights of the takeaway dishes we tried were:

(1) Salmon Yu Sheng
[$38+ sml / $68+ big]

Salmon Yu Sheng

Salmon Yu Sheng

- Just like any other "Lou Hei", Yum Cha's version was not much difference from the rest with common ingredients such fresh salmon fish slices, crunchy jellyfish, shredded carrot, radish, ginger, yam, pomelo etc. Highlight of this dish was Yum Cha homemade sour plum sauce used for tossing. Made with their secret recipe, this homemade sauce gave a sourish sweet aftertaste. Paired together with their fish sauce, both made the whole plate of Yu sheng very tasty and appetizing. If you're a very 年年有"鱼" person, you could add on more fish portions at only $12. HUAT ah!!
Rating 5/5

(2) Fried Crispy Chicken
[$40+ whole]

Fried Crispy Chicken

- Chicken was fried till golden brown color with slight crisp on the skin. I'm rather surprised that the meat texture was dry and tough even on the thigh part so I guessed the deep frying method dried out the meat. Marinades wasn't strong and flesh tastes rather bland, the only flavorful part was at the skin where the crispy garlic bits were scattered on top. You may want to dip the chicken in Yum cha's homemade sweet chillies sour plum sauce to bring more flavour to the meat.
Rating 3/5

(3) BBQ Suckling Pig
[$220+ whole / $118+ half]

BBQ suckling pig

BBQ suckling pig

- Crackling skin of this suckling pig made me gave up on my diet plans and went for more portions. Meat was flavourful with fats evenly distributed throughout the whole pig. It wasn't oily at all. Dip with a little of the smokey sweet sauce provided and it was heavenly! Although "peng cai" was more commonly seen on the tables during CNY than a "suckling pig" but for a change, I suggest you order this suckling pig instead. Skin so crispy its definitely worth all the calories.
Rating 5/5

(4) Braised Pig's Trotter with "Fatt Choy"
[$38+ half leg]

Braised Pig Trotter with Fatt Choy

- Pork trotter was slow-braised till really soft and tender. Meat falls off from bone easily without me using any strength. Chinese spices was not strong and I suggest flavour can be heavier. Fatt choy (black moss) used did not help in the taste, only being a traditional auspicious ingredient as people always said "fatt choy" sounds like "发财" in mandarin. Dried oysters would be a better option to improve the overall taste of this dish.
My most love and also the best parts of this trotter were the jelly skin and tendons. They were so Q, packed with collagen and "melt-in-the-mouth"!
Rating 4/5

(5) Fried Rice with Chinese Sausages in Lotus leaf
[$38+ whole]

Fried Rice w Chinese sausages in Lotus leaf

- I'm quite disappointed with the inconsistency of this dish. Other than texture being dry, parts of the rice were undercooked. The other main, important ingredient "chinese sausages" were not much visible too because they were cut into micro cubes instead of slices which I felt the size was unnecessary. I totally could not taste their existence thus lack the aroma of preserved meat. Dried shrimps used were also very tiny although chef was generous to throw in a lot.
Rating 1/5. Skip this.

Verdict: Overall taste and quality for most food items were satisfying, especially the suckling pig. As they were takeaways, of course we couldn't expect food to be the same as dine-in but prices were slightly steep as the above 5 items costs around $500 after taxes and CNY surcharge.

Nevertheless, regardless of what food or which venue, I personally felt that the most important element of CNY was having the whole family gathered round, happily and healthy, to enjoy great meals together

Yum Cha Chinatown
20 Trengganu Street
#02-01 (off Temple Street)
Singapore 058479
Tel: 6372 1717
www.yumcha.com.sg

- Monday to Friday
From 11am to 11pm
- Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays
From 9am to 11pm

Current Promotion: 20% early bird discount for "takeaway" Yu Sheng before 7th Feb 2016. For dine in customers, receive Yum Cha limited edition Ang bao packets when you spend $100 & above (while stock lasts).
** Call early to make your reservations to avoid disappointment **

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For the full review and more photos, head over to http://toroamtheworld.blogspot.com/food-review-yum-cha-restaurant.htmlYum Cha Restaurant has launched their CNY menu, and it doubles up as a takeaway/delivery menu too! I was privileged to try their takeaway menu items last week, where the food was delivered to a condominium function room. Here's what we had!BBQ Suckling Pig: This was the centrepiece of the table. A huge suckling pig was layed out, all sliced and cut out into many even pieces. Th

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For the full review and more photos, head over to http://toroamtheworld.blogspot.com/food-review-yum-cha-restaurant.html

Yum Cha Restaurant has launched their CNY menu, and it doubles up as a takeaway/delivery menu too! I was privileged to try their takeaway menu items last week, where the food was delivered to a condominium function room. Here's what we had!

BBQ Suckling Pig

BBQ Suckling Pig: This was the centrepiece of the table. A huge suckling pig was layed out, all sliced and cut out into many even pieces. The meat was really, really tender and fragrant, while the skin was crispy. It was a little cold by the time we ate it but I guess it's because it's been left out for a while and we were busy snapping pictures. But considering that it's takeaway, this dish was pretty good!

Braised Pig's Trotter with Fatt Choy

Braised Pig's Trotter with Fatt Choy: The meat was also very tender and it fell off the bone easily. The Fatt Choy (black moss) was yummy. The gravy was a little salty though.

Roasted Crispy Chicken

Roasted Crispy Chicken: I enjoyed this dish because the chicken meat was flavourful, tender and succulent.

Fried Rice with Chinese Sausage in Lotus Leaf

Fried Rice with Chinese Sausage in Lotus Leaf: The fried rice was not bad, though lacking in wok hei possibly because it's takeaway. The Chinese sausage, also known as lap chiong, gave the dish more flavour, though it could have been cut in bigger pieces.

Salmon Yu Sheng

Salmon Yu Sheng: If you're worried about consuming salmon sashimi, rest assured as the fish is sourced from Norway and it's definitely AVA-approved. The Yu Sheng was quite nice, and one noteworthy thing perhaps, is that they make their own sourplum sauce.

I think a lot of thought has been put into making sure that the takeaway food stays warm, presentable and tasty. They use this huge bag (below) where there's some warmer inside that keeps the food warm. This technology is called 'cook tek', and makes the food stay warm for 2 hours.

Other dishes (both takeaway and dine-in) include Braised Abalone with Dried Oysters and Fatt Choy, Roasted Crispy Pork Belly and more. Their CNY menus and takeaway menus will be available from tomorrow, 15 January to 22 February 2016. And here's a promotion! A 20% early bird discount for takeaway Yu Sheng if you order before 7 February. For in-house dining promotions, receive a limited edition Yum Cha red packet with a minimum spending of $100, while stocks last.

BBQ Suckling Pig

Roasted Crispy Chicken

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