I've always wanted to try the weekend Dimsum Brunch at Jade Restaurant in the Fullerton Hotel but for some reason or the other, I never got a chance to do it while I was living in Singapore, as well as in our short trips after we moved back.
They offer two sittings, so make sure you reserve early, because if you leave it until the last minute, they are normally fully booked. We opted to go for the second seating at 1:15pm since brunch is like an a la carte version of the buffet. You can make the most of it if you arrive hungry.
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| The Fullerton has always been an iconic hotel. |
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| Cavanagh Bridge which leads to the Asian Civilizations Museum. |
We always used to see it from the other side since ACM used to be one of the museums Sofia and I used to visit. You can read about that
here.
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| Boat Quay |
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| Boat Quay in Vivid Mode |
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| Seems like the Jade Restaurant has won several awards. |
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| Ady's birthday lunch |
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| Sof and Mom |
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We were so ready to order - since Tim and I both downloaded the menu
and we knew what we wanted to eat before we even made the reservation. |
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| More pics while waiting for our food to arrive. |
If you're going to Dimsum brunch for the first time, here are some tips.
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You can only order 1 soup each, so take choose what you want, so you can
tick this off the list. Corn Soup is safe, Hot and Sour Seafood was good,
according to my brother, I personally liked the Bird's Nest with Truffle,
but I ordered Soup of the Day which they ran out of and they gave me some
sucky mushroom soup. Don't order that if they offer it! |
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| You can also only order 1 chili crab stuffed mantou. |
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Personally, I'm not a fan of chili crab, but just order your full allocation,
because it's a scarce resource. Hahaha. |
Now, these turned out to be our favorite dishes. When we were ordering - our server gave us the option of ordering per piece. Just keep in mind, even for dimsum, the servings are tiny! Just imagine, everything comes in a tasting portion, so you will need to order more of the ones you like.
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The fried prawn dumplings were good. I'm not sure if it's because this
arrived first and we were starving, or because they were really good,
but go ahead and order more of these. |
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| The bite-sized taro puffs were my favorite! Absolutely to die for. |
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I love normal taro puffs, but stuffing it with mushroom and truffle is
just a level up for this dish. Since it's bite sized, you can eat a lot. |
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The wasabi prawns were also good.
They came with what I think was Mango Salsa. |
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| My other favorite was the BBQ Pork Pastries. |
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| The pastry was thin and flaky so you really get to enjoy the BBQ Pork. |
Then we ordered some appetizers and other dimsum.
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Another pleasant surprise was the braised lamb.
This was tasty and melt in your mouth. |
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| The cold chicken was also good, but I preferred the lamb. |
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| The salt and pepper tofu was also nice for variety. |
Then we also ordered the classics, which they did well enough.
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| Xiao Long Bao |
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| I ordered the century egg congee and Tim ordered the lobster one. |
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| Hakaw. (Ignore the beef balls) |
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| Radish cake |
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Our first batch of orders were a bit chaotic. I thought we ordered a lot, but
the servings were so small, they disappeared after everyone had a taste. |
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| Reviews of Jade Fullerton all include this dumpling. Vegetable I think. |
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| It looks really nice, but it just tastes like gyoza. No offense meant. |
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Like the siomai, we would probably have enjoyed it more, it if didn't
arrive so late. |
If you're on the fence about trying these things, just go ahead and order them because the servings are small anyway.
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Under this category I would include spare ribs, yam cake,
pork belly (which was so fat) and tofu skin which was surprisingly okay. |
My last category is what I call the - Don't waste your calories or time ordering them. They're just a waste of stomach space.
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The custard buns according to Tim were not even among the good ones he's had.
The cheese dumplings were not great either, and so were the beef balls. |
The dishes we really liked, we ordered more of. Hooray.
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Tim ordered another serving of braised lamb,
but he said the first one was cooked better. |
It was so weird because we were told we should order our dimsum and appetizer first, but the server never came back to us to check what we wanted from the main course! They only approached us to tell us it was time for the last order.
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I ordered French Beans. I don't understand why fat beans arrived.
These are not the French beans I was expecting. |
We also had to order our dessert together with the main course, though I don't understand why they had to serve it before the main course came out.
(Hello, is this an expense restaurant?!?)
The weekend dimsum brunch comes out to a little less than SG$50 for adults and SG$25 for kids. Not bad, since some of their dishes were really good and can't be ordered elsewhere, but for what we're paying, I think we have the right to expect the service to be better and the restaurant to be more flexible. If I'm going to come back next time, I will just purposely over order - to compensate for their inflexibility. just saying.
Jade Restaurant Fullerton Hotel
1 Fullerton Square, Singapore 049178
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