Yum Cha Restaurant

Chomp Venue:
Yum Cha
20 Trengganu Street
#02-01

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Upon arrival, once seated, there would be the usual small plates of peanuts and chilli in normal Chinese restaurants.











After ordering Chinese tea (which came promptly), we pondered over the choice of dim sum. There were steamed dim sum, porridges, fried dim sum and desserts.

First dim sum that came along was char siew puffs (芝麻叉燒酥). The crispy pastry was a plus point. Thought the char siew had a funny taste though.








One of my all-time favourites: Yam Puffs（蜂巢炸芋角） This was really good. Usually fried yam puffs are dripping in oil and your whole mouth swims in oil when you bite into it. But this one is different:). The yam was good too.





First spread of dimsum (anticlockwise from the bottom): Har gao 飲茶蝦餃皇, xiao long bao 魚翅小籠包, siew mai 魚子蒸燒賣, har gao (2nd one), steamed prawns wrapped in beancurd skin 頂汁鮮蝦卷, siew mai, guchai crystal bao 韭菜水晶包.

The names were quite fanciful:p. We were trying to look for "normal" xiao long baos/ siew mai without the alleged shark's fin and fish roe stated in the names. Personal favourite from this spread is har gao. But dim sum must be ate either steaming hot/warm. Especially xiao long baos. Ate a cold xiao long bao (we got too busy attacking other dim sums) and it was a far cry from the hot steaming one, whereby the hot piping soup will burst into your mouth when you bite into the soft skin of the xiao long bao.



Spread II. Additional dimsums are the char siew chee cheong fun 叉燒蒸腸粉 (in the middle), steamed carrot cake 瑤柱蒸蘿蔔糕 (far right), guo tie 韭菜煎鍋貼 (next to xiao long bao) and fried prawns wrapped in beancurd skin 鮮蝦付皮卷 (foreground), gluttinous rice stuffed with chicken + salted egg 荷葉糯米雞 (in the forgotten topmost corner beside the teapot).

The char siew in the chee cheong fun tasted better than the ones in the char siew puff. Guo ties were crispy and the meat was succulent and they always go well with vinegar + ginger. Siew mai was rather ordinary and some of them came in weird flattened cuboid shapes. But at least it wasn't oily with a lot of fatty meat.



Another personal favourite:). The skin was thin and chewy and there was a full prawn in it. Yummm.




The prices of dimsums ranged from $2.90-$4.90. I went with 3 other friends and we ordered a total of 15 dimsums and paid about $17 each so I thought the prices were affordable:).

There's also high tea dimsum buffet on weekdays from 3pm-6pm; Adult ($16.80) and Child ($12.80).

Will be back again for the delectable dimsum the next time:D. Though I would like to try Hong Xin Restaurant (54 Chin Swee Road) one day as well:).