At Xi Yan besides serving the regular chef menu for lunches and dinners, we also cater to special requests from our clients, more elaborate and enhanced menus. These special and personalized lunches and dinners will similarly adhere to Xi Yan’s culinary art, where the items arranged will provide distinctive variety and balance of sight, smell and tastes

Dietary restrictions and requirements :
At Xi Yan we do not use MSG nor lard in the preparation of our cuisines. For guests who may have dietary restrictions such as : no pork, no beef, no shell fish, no duck etc, we would substitute such dishes with others from our wide selection of cuisines. In some cases, where only one or few guests in a large group of diners require the restrictions we would then provide alternative individual dishes for those guests.

Vegetarian :
Whilst Xi Yan cuisines are principally non vegetarian, we do serve vegetarian dishesspecially for a few guests in large groups. In exceptional cases, where a particular evening is not exceptional busy, we would also be able to serve an entire dinner that is vegetarian (Xi Yan’s style).

Change of Menu items :
Xi Yan changes its menu on a regular basis. The quantum of change in terms of the number of dishes that are different from time to time may vary from 10% to 80 or 90% of the dishes compared to previous menus served. The frequency of change may be from daily , weekly to forthnightly. As a rule of thumb, the menus are changed at least weekly.

Returning or regular guests (hosting) :
For returning hosts within the same week or following week, we would usually attempt to provide some different dishes or variety for the particular hosts. However, some hosts would like their different groups of guests to taste the same dishes (ie no need for change of items in the menu) we would then follow suit.

In other cases where the returning hosts or guests wish to have particular favorite dishes (usually one or a few) again, they may also notify us ahead during the booking and these shall be noted and efforts will be made to try to serve them again for the guests.

Size of servings :
In some cases, where guests wish to have less quantity per dish or even less dishes but more quantity per dish, our chefs will also be able to accommodate the reduction in quantity of dishes served. However the costs may not be adjusted as the chefs may instead enhanced the items in the menu for the guests.

Custom or Personalized menu :
Beyond the minor changes above, Xi Yan is also able to work with our guests who wish to have customized or personalized menu for their luncheon or dinner. The requirements for such menu are usually conditional upon large group bookings (usually for 2 or more tables) or where the price of the menu per group is higher than the regular menu eg $148++ per pax or where the total spending will be a minimum of $4000 etc. The key is we are flexible to the needs of our guests and would be able to plan and advise our guests for their best enjoyment basis.

The special menus can range from $48++ (lunch only) to $238++ (lunch or dinner) per pax for food only. Different ingredients will be selected for these menus. We also provide special theme and paired wine, paired champagne or paired whiskey dinners ranging from $138++ to $1288++ or more per pax depending on the vintage of wine. For wine, these can be all French, all Australian, American, mixed or selected 90+ pointers to 100 pointers wine. For Whiskey, we would serve single malts , blended single malts of 18 years to 25 years basis. A minimum pax or spending will apply for these special personalized menu dinners.

The following are samples of such menus items for reference and also some of the special items that can be included in the overall special enhanced chef menu. Advanced booking of at least 4 or more days would be required depending on the selected menu. A minimum order in terms of the number of diners would be required for each of the above selection.