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"Xi Yan honored with the G Restaurant Awards 2012" by PEAK The PEAK Selection, Gourmet & Travel, May 2012 |
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Vacheron Constantin 2012 Lunar New Year Celebrations @ Xi Yan Watching Horology, February 6, 2012 by Prof Harry S K Tan |
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Yu sheng you must try Silver Lining, January 19, 2012 |
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欢天喜地 iWeekly |
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Privacy By Design Golf Digest Singapore, January 2012 |
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Chinese New Year Takeaways 8 Days Magazine, January 12, 2012 |
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Giving a toss TODAY, on Friday, January 6, 2012 |
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Kitchen Confidential the PEAK, on Jacky visit Oct 2012 |
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The Joy of Eating Prestige Magazine, November 2011 |
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Sake Pairing With The Cuisine Of Xi Yan By Jen Shek Voon, Cuisine & Wine Asia, January - February 2012 |
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An interview by The Edge Magazine : Management@Work Jan 2012 The Edge Magazine |
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Review of Xi Yan new creations By Moses Lim, October 2011 |
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epicure's choice Epicure, October 2011 |
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Tasty and Healthy Xi Yan Health Weekly by Kow Meng, 7 October 2011 |
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Xi Yan: 6th Year of Joyful Dining Silver Lining, 22 September 2011 |
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Wong Ah Yoke on Xi Yan HK and Singapore Life!, The Straits Times, 17 May 2011 |
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Singapore Service Star Award Singapore Service Star, April 2011 |
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PEAK Best Gourmet Restaurant Award Gourmet & Travel, May 2011 |
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A Learning Journet Into Chinese Art City News, 28-29 May 2011 |
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ELITE TRAVELER - Destination Guide : Singapore (Page 15 Xi Yan) |
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Watch Collectors get together dinner at Xi Yan Ho Chiak, 29 May 2011 |
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Watch Collectors Get Together at Xi Yan Watching Horology, 29 April 2011 |
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Of Mozzarella And Kimchi Prawns City News, 17 January 2011 |
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Festive Fusion Silver Lining, December 2010 |
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Festive Feasting Home Concepts, December 2010 |
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One of the Restaurants Where You Can Hold Your Reunion Dinners Openrice, January 2011 |
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Xi Yan special Recipe- for chicken wings U Receipe, Chinese-English Recipe |
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Signature favourites The Business Times, Monday, August 30, 2010 |
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Connecting with Wine Epicure, July 2010 |
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Best Chef Book of Hong Kong Gourmand World Cookbook Award 2009 |
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Asian Appetite Home & Decor, 2009 |
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A wedding banquet at Xi Yan Ms Glitzy.com, Sep 2009 |
Wedding of Christine Chua and Nathan Dodd
bliss42 blog, October 2009
"Xi Yan felt like home, only with expert chefs who would whip up beautiful and flavorsome dishes and name them for the occasion."
Private dining with home-style, modern Chinese cuisine by Hong Kong chef Jacky Yu.
Gayot.com (The guide to the Good Life)
"Refreshingly Different...Xi Yan's Chinese New Year dishes are not the usual standard fare, but they promises to titillate your palate"
PULSES...Dining Out, Jan 2009
Golf Asia Jan 2009 p88 to 90, 'Private Dining , The Modern Chinese Way'
by James Sharpe.
Ser Xiang Wei Nov 2009 P3639, an Interview with Jacky Yu
"....Ms Jenny Ong, 39, has read much about Chinese restaurant Xi Yan in the newspapers but had never eaten there. But yesterday, as one of the 10 winners of a Sunday Times contest, the quantity surveyor tickes into a 12-course dinner at the eatery. The signature dish, salivating checken with century eggs, won her over......"
Food Tour Tickles our Readers' Taste Buds by Jamie Ee Wen Wei (Sundaytimes Nov 16, 2008 home Page 16) A food tour with Sunday Times food reviewer WOng Ah Yoke
"I would say this was one of the best dining experience with each set of dish prepared in a unique way. We had our delightful dinner on the 29th Nov 2008, Saturday. The service was excellent as the waiters explained each and every dish in detail.We would like to thank you for the wonderful culinary experience and will be looking forward to the next visit soon!
Loretta Liu"
Xi Yan Private Dinning
http://www.asiaone.com/specials/cny09/no-fussfeasting.html
Time Out Singapore : ‘With barely six tables, serious jockeying and planning ahead is required to get into the first and only outlet outside Hong Kong of this famed Chinese private kitchen restaurant..’
Recreate Great Dishes
This is definitely the oddest category in a restaurant review. We have only two words : private dining. ....Your're literally borrowing someone's home and expertise for a time- perfect for when you need to host a private dinner , or when you just want to have the decision made for you by passionate experts.....
(Home Concepts Oct 2008, by Huang Nickmatul)
"...Instead of going the whole hog (or crab, rather); this 60 seater reservations-only establishment has incorporated just a taste of the Shanghainese delicacy into its lunch and dinner set menus. for diners who simply want to sample the season's specialty, this is a good option especially since you get to try several of Xi Yan's signature dishes, too..."
Stealing the show from the crabs (Review by Audrey Phoon, Business Times - Dining Out, Oct 13 2008)
Asia Pacific Best Restaurant Lists
"Emerging from vibrant Hong Kong , this exclusive restaurant is taking the culinary world by storm. Having no signage and located on the second level of a row of old shophouses in a quaint sideroad provides Xi Yan with just the right elements for a private dining experience."
88DB Service Portal
HK Celebrity Chef Jacky Yu from Xi Yan to visit Singapore and Palate Sensations Cooking School
Jenny 8 Lee interview
"xi yan the hottest restaurant in town.."
AsiaOne food & entertainment, Great food reviews by renown food critic, Wong Ah Yoke
"the best dishes should stimulate the senses of sight, smell and taste. It is something that Xi Yan takes truly to heart",
Wong Ah Yoke, Sunday Times, Oct 2005
"There is no sign-board, no menu and no choice. Welcome to the world of private dining".
Sunday Times, New & News/Happening, Sept 2005
Banquet feast at Xi Yan
Dine with a difference - "Tired of soul-less restaurant chains and hungry for a dining experience closer to home? Then book a table at Xi Yan....all this fuss is worth it because the food — chic Asian fusion — is exquisite”
Uniquely Singapore, Inside Scoop, 2006/2007
"I finally understood why this dish (Japanese tomatoes with wasabi sesame sauce) was a mainstay on Xi Yan's menu and why people kept raving about something as simple as tomatoes. It was simply fantastic"
Sooks Food Notes
“Another signature dish is the Szechuan chicken - chicken, yam noodles and century egg, topped with chinese parsley, peanuts and doused with a fiery chilli sauce, which left a numbness in the mouth. You could go for the 'original' (which we did) or a toned-down heat. And boy, was it hot. I felt like I could breathe fire after that, yet it was so good I couldn't help it but go for a second helping……..Almost like a wedding dinner, without the yam sengs and bad food. Highly recommended!”
".....The chicken doesn't salivate, diners do. They cant help it either.
Silky-smooth poached chicken, bather in a fragant, spicy, tongue-numbing sauce flavoured with chilli, sichuan peppercorns, ginger, garlic and shallots. Sichuan salivating chicken with century eggs is one of the signature dishes at Xi Yan, a chic private dining salon serving east-east fusion food...." Sunday Times Oct 14, 2007
Sunday Times Lifstyle Best 100 dishe by Tan Hsueh Yun, Thng Lay Teen, Foong Woei Wan, Wong Ah Yoke Sun, Oct 14, 2007 Lifestyle 100 Best Dishes,
The Sunday Times
“We had dinner at a very special place that godpa frequents, called Xiyan”
“The waiting list is looonnnggg, and it was by sheer luck that my girlfriend managed to get us a table…..I was probably the first to start spacing out, after the final appetiser. I'm full, I declared, sitting back and rubbing my tummy. We looked at the menu, and realised we hadn't even started on the mains”
Little Miss Drinkalot , Dinner at Xi Yan. 2006
"Prawn with Crab Roe Tofu". The arrival of this dish had our whole table oohing and aahing at the beautiful, colourful presentation. The prawns were large, fresh and succulent; the thinly sliced tofu was silky smooth; and the crab roe sauce was heavenly.”,”… we were all fully satisfied with such an innovative and inspiring meal. My Singaporean fellow diners loved the ambience of the restaurant, and the leisurely slow pace of the dinner, which allowed us to catch up with one another. Xi Yan is, without a doubt, a pioneer of the speakeasy dining scene in Singapore, and has set the bar extremely high”
Double Happiness at Xi Yan. HK Foodie. 2006
“Bad Chinese food is greasy. As with any cuisine, if you can see the grease on your plate, it’s probably unrefined, low quality food. At Xi Yan, twelve courses later, I don’t recall any dish being too heavy.” ," I refuse to label Jacky's cooking as “fusion” because there is nothing contrived in his food or spirit………He is skilled at finding the perfect balance in the diverse Asian ingredients he uses to create delicious new dishes based on familiar flavors. He successfully infuses fun into his modern interpretation of Chinese food and the concept of the banquet.”
By Celia Cheng, FindyourCravings.com
“Behind this bright orange-red wall on the 2nd level of 38A Craig Road, a memorable Asian culinary experience is about to unfold……..why anyone would agree to wait that long for a table (reservation), considering that most of us scream bloody murder at our wait-staff when made to wait longer than 30 minutes for a table at any Chinese restaurant. To understand the reason(s), you need to make a reservation at Xi Yan for dinner………just like a good dinner-party at a friend's place, we had not realized how fast the time flew”
Xi Yan - Simple yet exquisite, Eatzy Bitzy, 2005
“In an atmosphere and service befitting of royalty, it is indeed an experience to dine at Xi Yan. Part of the reason why reservations are best made in advanced is to ensure freshness of ingredients are never compromised. Culinary creativity is apparent here”
Xi Yan private dining – with a taste of Asia by Lavina Ching
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“You say private dining, I say Xi Yan”
“This is the first Chinese dinner I’ve had in Singapore that displayed such a tight control of the ingredients such that everything balanced out and yet you can taste each ingredient individually. …The service was impeccable: Knowledgable, swift, discrete, friendly with lots of smiles.”
Coterie Dinner at Xi Yan Singapore , Food.recentrunes.com
“As a private dining place, it truly lives up to its concept to provide the ambience, service and memorable unique dishes. Xi Yan is not a place for those who wants regular or traditional fare or just wants quantity.”
Night out to remember, Blurbme.com
“to create a really exciting culinary experience that is both eclectic and a fusion of the East, paced to challenge your taste buds. This is Xi Yan’s cuisines”
