Back to Summer Pavilion... Its set amidst a garden, with its glass walls, it provides an elegant backdrop for dining. Well, we are not here for the refined interior or elegant settings but for its exquisite dim sum.
It has a fine selection of Chinese tea, we selected Shui Hsien (水仙), which is strong full-bodied Oolong tea but with a floral tinge in the aftertaste.
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| Shui Hsien |
Before your dishes are served, they offered yam crisps which is quite appetising. Its so thinly sliced that its almost transparent. You can still taste its crispness before it melts in your mouth.
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| Yam Crisp |
Stewed trotter with Vinegar (八珍猪脚醋) @$6 per portion. The trotter are cut into small bite size, you can enjoy the collagen of the pig’s trotters skin, tenderness of the meat in one mouthful. There are also quail eggs and ginger to accompany the aged vinegar. The vinegar is flavourful, unlike those which you can only taste sourness.
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| Stewed trotter with Vinegar (猪脚醋) Rating: 4/5 |
Steamed Lobster Dumpling with Mushroom, Chinese parsley and Onion (龍蝦水晶餃) @ $2.50 per piece. The usual nice steamed fresh dumpling, but can't really differentiate the lobster from the prawns.
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| Steamed Lobster Dumpling (龍蝦水晶餃） Rating: 3.5/5 |
Pan fried rice skin rolls with bean sprouts in XO sauce (XO醬銀牙煎腸粉) @$6 per portion, one of our favourite dish. The XO sauce is super and strong enough for the layered skin rolls. The pan-fried gives texture and fragrant to the skin rolls while the bean sprouts add freshness to the overall dish.
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| Pan-Fried Rice Skin Rolls with Bean Sprouts in XO sauce (XO醬銀牙煎腸粉) Rating: 4/5 |
Decided to try something different this time round. Was quite impressed with their use of yam, thus decided to try the steamed bun with yam, salted egg yolk and butter (芋茸流沙包) @$3.60 for 3 pieces. Enjoy the buttery taste, saltiness of the egg yolk and the creamy yam.
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| Steamed Yam bun Rating: 3.5/5 |
My #1 ranked dim sum in summer pavilion - pan fried shredded yam with pumpkin (金瓜煎芋絲) @$4.20 for 3 pieces, the reason why I'm back to this restaurant. The fragrant sesame, crunchy shredded yam on the outside and soft yam and sweet pumpkin inside, giving multi-layered taste and texture. Simply yummy!
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| Pan-Fried Shredded Yam with Pumpkin (金瓜煎芋絲) Rating: 4.5/5 |
Congee with Pork and Preserved Vegetables (皮蛋瘦肉粥) @$4 per portion. The preserved vegetables are chopped up so that every mouthful is filled with its fragrant. The pork used is not just any sliced pork but roasted pork and skin which definitely add flavour to the congee.
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| Congee with Pork and Preserved Vegetables (皮蛋瘦肉粥) Rating: 4/5 |
Double-boiled Shark Cartilage Soup with Fish Maw (花胶燉鯊魚骨湯) @$16 per portion. Best to call the restaurant in advance to prepare it before you come so that there are more time to prepare the soup. The soup is thick and rich, a good source of collagen. If its being simmered long enough, you can actually taste the stickiness of the collagen from the soup.
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| Double-boiled Shark Cartilage Soup with Fish Maw (花胶燉鯊魚骨湯) Rating: 4/5 |
Finally its the dessert. This dessert is not in the menu, got to know of this delicacy few years ago during a dinner - blended yam with vanilla ice cream 旭日金沙. The blended yam or sherbet is refreshing and cooling with a different texture to constrast the smooth vanilla ice cream. You can also dunk the wafer into the yam and vanilla ice cream and eat like a kid.
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| 旭日金沙 Rating: 4.5/5 |
The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore
7 Raffles Avenue Level 3
Singapore 039799
Business hours
Lunch: 11:30am -2:30pm
Dinner: 6:30pm - 10pm
Tel: 6 337 8888
Reference other blogs on Dim Sum
- East Ocean
- Taste Paradise
