Lei Garden Restaurant @ CHIJMES

It has been ages since we went Lei Garden Restaurant for a meal. So recently, our family decided to dine there and celebrate a family member's birthday. It was indeed the right decision! Lei Garden is simply superb! The quality of the food, ambience, service and dining experience are beyond description! It was a sumptuous dinner! Lei Garden has really set the standard for my family! It would be almost impossible for the other Chinese restaurants to match up to them.

However, please be prepared to pay premium for the Seafood & Lobster Set Menu. But you can be assured of the tastiest quality food. The seafood are simply fresh and delicious. I once saw Jackie Chan dining there with his Singapore friends. It's also very crowded daily so do make your reservations early. It was fully-booked when we were there. It's an ideal place for businessmen to entertain their clients and also very popular with Japanese tourists.

We were given a private room on the 2nd level. Room 1 has an English-style theme. The waitress informed us that the other rooms have different decor theme. Anyway, I like this theme, it's very classic and relaxing. Noticed the 2 pairs of chopsticks? One pair is for you to serve your guests and the other pair is for your own use. So don't get them mixed up!

Execlusive Private VIP Room

To start-off the dinner, we were served fresh honeydew juice and 3 appetizer. I like the honey walnut the best. It's really tasty and nice. Do you know that walnuts are good for your brain? It's not because it's shaped like the brain but rather it contains high nutritional value.

 Deep-fried Walnut coated with Honey Deepfried Crispy Silver Fish

Spicy Preserved Vegetable

We ordered additional dish, Lei Garden's signature roast pork. I usually don't fancy roast pork but the roast pork here are roasted to perfection. It's so tender and yet crispy. It costs $13++ for 9 pieces. Even the kids enjoyed them.

Crispy Roast Pork

The next dish is the Peking Duck. Also not my favourite dish but the duck is roasted to perfection so I really enjoyed it.

Peking Duck

The Sharkfins Soup is very tasty with generous ingredients like crab meat, fish maws, scallops and plenty of shark fins. I don't mind having second serving but then I remembered those poor sharks who died in the sea after their fins were sliced out.

Braised Shark's Fins Soup

I think this is my favourite dish for the night. I was surprised that the restaurant served us 2 garuopa as each fish would usually cost at least $80. I prefer the red garuopa as the meat is more tender. The fish is so fresh that it tasted like they were just caught from the sea! No fishy taste at all! Super yummy!

Steamed Garuopa in Light Soya Sauce

The next dish is also Lei Garden's signature dish. The baked lobster with crispy noodle was simply delicious. The lobster portion is also very generous. Personally, I prefer the noodles to have more gravy.

Baked Live Lobster served on Crispy Noodle

Braised Wa Wa Cabbage with Garden Green Topped

The vegetable dish is quite normal and a bit too salty. This is the only dish that we couldn't finsihed. We were very full by then.

Have you heard or tasted black pig? This is the first time that I have tasted kurobuta pork. It is very tender and tasted like the beef slices used for sabu sabu. The sauce is also very tasty. Kurobuta pork is very popular in Japan.

Panfried Kurobuta Pork with Home-Made Sauce

Information on Kurobuta Pork
Kurobuta Pork is the most highly prized pork in Japan and comes from the ancient breed of pig known as Black Berkshire. The meat from the pure oriental strains of Black Berkshire, found in Japan, is regarded as the highest quality pork in the world.

We were so full by the time they served this dish so we requested for a small bowl and packet the rest to bring home. The rice is really fragrant with the lotus leaf and very tasty.

Fried Rice with Duck Meat Wrapped in Lotus Leaf

For desserts, we were served 3 different types of dessets. The red dates rice cake is really unqiue. The double-boiled papaya is to nourish the lungs and beautify your complexion. A birthday meal is not complete without the longevity buns. The steamed buns are really soft and the lotus seed paste is simply delicious.

Our family really enjoyed this delicious meal and it was an unforgettable experience for us. The dishes were served with 10-15 mins break in between so it was very relaxing and not rushed through. We will definitely dine there again! Their service is very good and they will make sure that they change a new plate before the next the dish arrives. The captain will also check with us regularly on the taste of the food. I jokingly told my male colleague that this is the place to go if he wants to impress his future mother-in-law!

Red Dates Rice Cake

Double-boiled papaya with Almonds

Longevity Buns 寿桃 (Peach Buns)

Food: Excellent

Ambience: Excellent

Service: Excellent

Price range: S$100/pax

Lei Garden Chinese Restaurant

30 Victoria Street

#01-24 CHIJMES

Tel : 6339-3822

Operating Hours

Lunch: 11:30am - 3:00pm

Dinner: 6:00pm - 11:00pm