A la carte Dim Sum Buffet at 聚春园 // Sunday
This post came in late once again. Back to last Sunday where I have a good brunch with Bf and his Mum. We brought her down to Chinatown for some good local dim sum. As both Bf's mum and I are Dim sum lover, I got ready excited to search for affordable and well-recommended Dim sum buffet. It was none other from the top 20 dimsum venue in burpple till danielfooddiary posts.
It took me really long to find a suitable venue as some buffet rised up to $50+ person which was not in our budget list. It was pretty decent when we found a buffet which cost $24 per person and with so many thumbs-up for this Chinese restaurant.
From the outside, one would certainly have no idea that JuChunYuan is a restaurant. I initially thought that it was an exhibit of the ancient times houses.
One of the best chinese restaurant that I came across because of their interior design! It seems like you are in Huang dynasty, having your lunch at a imperial treasure. Every display looked so ancient and antique. The designer must be having a hard time to come up with this ancient chinese concept.
The restaurant gave me a very "atas" feeling as I could totally enjoy my meal in peace without disturbance from the staffs. Moreover, the staffs were always ready to help whenever I need them.
Buffet means we can order as many stuffs as we could so Bf and I are in charge of indicating the quantity of food that we want to order whereas her mum will be in charge of eating whatever we ordered. So we ran through the whole list and listed 1 at almost all column. We must have over-ordered our food again!
It came out that we ordered 17 different plates of food for our FIRST ROUND.
This was my favourite dish out of all: salted egg custard bun. Once bite into it, you can see the yellow fluid slowly flowing out and great combination of salted egg taste in it. Was reminded by the waitress there to eat while is still hot otherwise the fluid won't be so watery. So sweet of them (: Oh by the way is green in color in case you can't see clearly the color of it.
Done with the first round but we are not yet full. So we decided to go for a second round with orders of different kind of food. Here to a more appetizing dishes rather to those heavy food.
Too much to list down all the names. If you are curious on what type of dishes they served, just head down to give it a try.
I want to introduce their top favourite! Their dessert, Durian Cream Pancake, melts in the mouth and leaves you hanging there for more. Sorry to those who detest durians! It comes in the shape similar to a pillow. And when cut open, the durian cream stuffed to the brim! And if there's any reason why people would return to JuChunYuan, it would be this dessert!
Overall, I would go back if I want a cheap and affordable dim sum fix.Well, but everyone's taste bud differs so just take my comments lightly and try it out for yourself!
Address: Far East Square,
130 Amoy Street #01-01
(S) 049959 (nearest mrt: Telok Ayer)
Please do make reservation at this number:
6536 2655
Till then.
