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Arriving by bus # 124, 128, 143, 162, 162M, 167, 171, 190, 700, 700A, 14e. Bus-stop no. 09023. Bus-stop name; Orchard Station Nearest Train Station; Orchard MRT
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Introduction
The Asian Kitchen serves dishes which are inspired by Taiwanese and Si Chuan cuisines. The interior of the restaurant is minimal, with oriental touches, further bringing out the Asian feel of the restaurant.
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Opening Hours
Mon - Thu
11:30 - 21:30
Fri - Sun
11:30 - 22:15
Above information is for reference only. Please check details with the restaurant.
Signature Dishes
The Eggy Rice Bowl is one of the better dishes that I enjoy eating at Asian Kitchen. Chock full of minced meat in a salty sauce over a bowl of rice and an egg on the side. Make sure you mix in the meat sauce with the white rice thoroughly before eating it to fully enjoy this dish.Since it was a special lunch set, we also got to pick one side dish each. I chose the Kang Kong while my colleagues picked the Tofu and Crispy Duck Spring Roll. Overall, the food here is pretty average but quite good value for money if you run out of other options to eat at ION.
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Had my lunch at this restaurant located at B3 of ION. Home Made Soy Bean - Not too sweet but quite normal which i don't think it is home made. Lu Gang Fried Rice - Generous servings of Chinese sausage and bits of prawns, the fried rice was not too wet or dry. And it was full of the aroma of eggs. Quite nice.Crispy Duck Fried Popiah - Similar to Beijing roast duck, instead of using the normal skin wrap, it was wrapped like a popiah and deep fried. Cant really taste the duck meat.
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Today my friend come orchard find me dinner, and I suggest to have Chinese food so we choose the Lu Gang Xiao Zhen in ION Orchard.Eggy Bowl Rice. Frankly speaking, this Eggy Bowl Rice a bit disappointed me, the meat they use a bit "dried" and the rice too salty This is what my friend ordered, Taiwan Granny Meesua ! The oyster is nice and the soup no bad. My friend is chili lover so she put a lot their homemake chili into the soup and make it become HOT AND SPICY TAIWAN GRANNY MEESUA !"Tasty" Fish Slices. Really not very tasty... Wonder why will call "Tasty" Fish Slices. But at least the fish is fresh
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Most of my favourite restaurant discoveries have been influenced, pushed and guided by one simple fact… aroma and hunger. So it isn’t surprising, when we stumbled upon this gem, on a Sunday evening. Tried from shopping, we were heading back home from ION Orchard Mall, when the aroma of Chinese food tickled our olfactory senses.What we saw made us stop, turn back, and head straight into an extremely tastefully designed authentic Chinese restaurant Lu Gang Xiao Zhen by Asian Kitchen. The entire décor is designed in shades of bright red and black. The walls, the chairs, the tables, the lighting has a brilliant conventional look to it, making the place stand out, in an otherwise crowded mall! You just cannot miss the colours! What surprised us even more was how intelligently this place was designed. If you looked at it closely, what looked like exotic décor from the outside, was in fact a well camouflaged décor made out of inexpensive stuff. Impressed…My husband’s a vegetarian, but he is not a fussy vegetarian. Give him greens, lentils, sprouts, mushrooms, bitter gourd, just about anything vegetarian and he will relish it… happily. So it usually irritates him to no end, when restaurants politely turn down his requests for making some decent authentic vegetarian Chinese. “Why is it so difficult? You just add veggies instead of meat! Aren’t lot of mainlander’s Buddhists… if so, at least some of them ought to be vegetarian…!” he cribs, each time he is disappointed. Not this time…To our surprised delight, Lu Gang Xiao Zhen’s menu has an elaborate and quite delectable vegetarian menu! What’s more, the servers were more than ready to understand our no meat, no fish diet, without flinching! “I don’t really care about how good or bad this place is, anymore”, my husband said, “They are at least trying to cater to people like me! I should be happy with that!” All so often, I have seen him order mashed potatoes or plain rice and eat it with the chili and vinegar sauce, when I have been digging into some meaty delicacies. This time, I decided to give him a wider choice and we went in for an all veggie menu, despite the fact that the aromas of fish and pork had filled the air.This is what we picked!Spinach Soup: Very rarely have I tasted so flavourful spinach soup… the vegetarian broth in which the lightly sauted spinach leaves were presented was definitely freshly made, using variety of veggies. Lugang Fried Rice: Usually, the first question anyone asks us when we order a vegetarian fried rice is, “Egg okay?” Actually egg is not really vegetarian and so it is not okay. But over the years, we have come to accept the fact that an all vegetarian fried rice is only available in the rarest of the rare occasions, and that too in what we like to call, ‘The-Indian-Chinese-food-version’. So when we tried the Lugang fried rice, there was no noticeable egg in it! Broccoli Mushroom: This was my favourite dish of the evening. Evenly presented in a salty soy sauce, the broccoli was cooked, just enough, and the mushrooms were greasy and tasty! Just like the rice, I could have eaten the dish by itself!Treasure Pot: Mixture of beans, carrots and tofu in an almost soupy gravy, the flavour was so light that it actually reminded me of the vegetarian broth gravy I make when I am looking for something really light. The treasure pot was a perfect companion for the fried rice.Great option to visit. For more information, do visit my blog http://www.facebook.com/spicerover OR http://spicerover.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/lu-gang-xiao-zhen-by-asian-kitchen-vegetarians-delight/
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Friends and I were shopping at Ion Orchard, and decided to check out this Asian Kitchen as it seems to be quite fancy looking, though small with limited seats. Servers were friendly and had us seated shortly. But eventually back to their usual slow serving speed after we placed orders - Roasted Pork, Salted egg yolk season bean, Fried Tang HoonIt took about 20 minutes before the dishes started coming in.The Roast pork, despite hearing some hype about it, was more on the cold and tough side, and it wasn’t appetizing at all. Fried Tang Hoon was rather oily and small in portion.So far I only liked their salted egg yolk with beans as it's very tasty and crunchy. Overall , either I’m here on a bad day or I can’t help feeling this place is overrated.
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