Yu Cuisine @ Marina Bay Sands

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Yu Cuisine's board of signatures which I wish I studied a little more carefully before heading in!

yu cuisine

Under the same group as Bosses is Yu Cuisine at Marina Bay Sands. Their high tea session lasts from 3 -530pm and the restaurant was fairly filled.

wine cellar

Spot the wine cellar, up the wall.

decor

Fishies swimming round the restaurant.

menu

Loosely translated as fish cuisine.

chrysanthenum

Unsweetened Chrysanthenum to wash down the expected grease.

fish crackers

Appetizers of fish skin crackers - very crisp and crunchy...not to mention addictive too. Salt and pepper can go so right.

barbequed platter

Barbeque Platter of two meats ($22)

Roast meats are Yu Cuisine’s specialty and we went for the usual suspects of roast pork – char siew and siew yoke. I really was not expecting much, having being disappointed quite a number of times by hotels and their bevy of chefs. Char siew is no simple dish – from Singapore to KL, the taste has been reinterpreted tons of ways. I liked their lean version, tasty and well charred! Roast pork did not have the usual gameyness – score!

char siew pau fluffed

Snow Mountain Char Siew Bun ($6.50 for 3)

Bears a distant resemblance to Tim Ho Wan's famous char siew bun, these are called snow mountain for a valid reason.

snow char siew pau

Snow capped tops of a sweetened crumble that was a tad dry, char siew filling was decent yet the bun was a letdown. Instead of a fluffy pau texture, it had a bread texture.

har gao

Prawn Dumpling ($6.80 for 3)

Juicy prawns wrapped in thin translucent skin, these were not spectacular though.

siew mai


Queen Shumai ($6.50 for 3)

Queen for the prawn tail sticking out.Yet another ordinary take.

xlb

Xiao Long Bao ($6 for 3 pcs)

These were rough handiwork, from the uneven skin and knobby edges and mediocre taste..don't bother ordering.

dinosaur roll

Dinosaur Rice Roll ($8.80)

Having a name so epic and an appearance so lacklustre - there is a major disconnect somewhere.The rice roll was not the usual silky smooth, slightly hard infact. The filling was interesting - fried beancurd skin with fish cake. Dinosaur? Not quite, a herbivorous one.

lo mai kai

Panfried Glutinous Pancake ($6.80 for 2)

glutinous rice cut

This panfried interpretation of the usual steamed one was delicious. Crusty edges reminded me of burnt rice at the bottom of a rice cooker. Filled with ingredients, each portion was good enough for two.

fried yam cake


Ancestor Crispy Fried Yam Cake ($6 for 3)

Despite being fried, the yam shreds were not gelled together. It had a greasy finish due to the preserved meats used. Not too bad, just not great.

molten custard pau

Signature Golden Lava Custard Bun ($6 for 2)

molten

An improved version of Bosses, filled to the brim with liquid gold.


oooosh

While the pau was not kneaded evenly, I give props to the kitchen for mastering the potent egg yolk custard to such precision. Slurp it all up and I was grinning like a silly billy. Seconds, always in a heartbeat.

durian mochi d24

Durian Mochi ($6 for 3)



durian mochi bitten

With a durian fan in tow, it is always hard not to order durian dessert.These poorly made mochi skins would have made any Japanese or Taiwanese frown. Thick and bland skin aside, the filling was barely durian...mostly fresh cream infact. I say skip it!

Yu Cuisine surpassed expectations on quality of food served up, service was attentive...to sum up, a more than decent dim sum place around!

Yu Cuisine
Marina Bay Sands

Comments

  1. LOL its the fish skin that left the deepest impression on me at Yu Cuisine ;P

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  2. HAHAHAH...and you HAD to mention it! but it was really more than decent. :)

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