Chao Yue Xuan (潮粤轩), Capitol Singapore

This relatively new dim sum specialty restaurant (#B2-51/52 Capitol Singapore, 13 Stamford Road, tel : +65 8921 1929) has gotten a bit of attention lately because the two chefs running are brothers, both formerly executive chefs. One's from Crystal Jade and the other, dim sum chef from St. Regis Hotel. I'm not big on Crystal Jade and I know next to nothing about dim sum at St Regis. But those are still accolades under the belt worth taking a peek.

This was charcoal pastry with salted egg yolk custard & rambutan. Hmmm.....charcoal pastry. Sure didn't look it.

Salted egg and rambutan does pair. Maybe lychee would have gotten more citrus through. But also maybe, lychee could be a bit too mainstream for them. 😅

Pan fried yam cake with pumpkin in between. Tasted like how it looked.  I kinda liked the texture from the yam strips which reminded me of crispy noodles.

Pretty regular tasting deep fried bean curd skin roll minced pork shrimp.

This was goose liver dumplings with black garlic but I couldn't taste any goose liver. Otherwise, it wasn't bad and it's kinda like siew mai.

To get it out of the way, I like the steamed carrot cake at Victor's Kitchen better. This was okay tasting but not memorable. That also implies that they were obviously also not in the same leagues as those from Imperial Treasure.

Mushroom dumplings with truffle were not bad tasting on the account that the pairing of mushrooms and truffle paste was pretty reliable. Their chewy crystal skin was kinda fascinating.

Tried this out of curiosity. The dumplings were filled with mung bean paste...kinda like ang ku kueh. Minus the red skin and tortoise design. The "sauce" was gula melaka. Did not taste bad for sure but I'm definitely not getting the "I gotta come back for these again" kind of feels.

Another "mushroom" bun. What sets this apart from the others was that there were no mushrooms in it. These were stuffed with minced pork, chestnuts and salted fish.

Great texture and good flavour from the scallion oil noodles. We got the plate with sliced fei ngau. Fatty sliced beef that is. This I could definitely come back for again.

Curry chee cheong fun with pork skin and cuttlefish.

I'm undecided about how I felt about the curry but it didn't taste bad. It just wasn't outstanding. 

Decent tasting har gow......I can't think of anything to say about it. Hahahahahaaa....