Cherry Garden

A nice dinner in a nice restaurant with really nice n helpful service. The ambiance is nice, the Chinese foods they’re serving is Cantonese but judging from the rice soup with pork that they served, I think it’s more to Hokkien style porridge. But, I’m no expert to the Chinese food. The cod fish with vegetables and pumpkin soup also very nice. We tried the lobster soup which also very nice. Portions were small and just enough for one person. Price wise this restaurant is moderate. Some food’s selection can be very expensive too. Next time I’ll try their lunch :-)

Our experience at Cherry Garden was a polished one from beginning to end. It was a little on the pricey end but we did eat a number of delicacies and receive impeccable service. Their ability to adapt their traditional dishes to be gluten free was done with a can-​do attitude and at the end of the night our waiter came over and gave me a fresh long stemmed rose to keep. A sweet gesture that brightened up our hotel room for the duration of our stay.

The location of one of our more recent Unilocal brunches, Cherry Garden was in truth, a little disappointing.
I’ve been here for dinner, and one thing that is really top-​notch is the service. They really commit to delivering excellent service and deserve due recognition.
I enjoyed dinner more than the brunch buffet, mainly because the star of the buffet, the dim sum, was more lose-​sum than win-​sum.
Don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty of variety, and some very unique selections. The custard bun with chocolate was to me, just delicious. Not too sweet, super rich chocolate filling that other people at the table made rather unflattering analogies with, I was more than happy to eat two.
The cooked items such as the pork, duck, and other seafood items and meat were definitely of an excellent standard, and probably stole the show. It’s only a pity that there’s a limit on how many of certain items you can order because they cost more.
The soups were… alright. I wouldn’t describe them as bland, but they weren’t any better than something you’d order at Soup Restaurant. Overall, while the value for the buffet brunch is undeniable (particularly if you’re a bottomless pit comme moi), but I think the quality of the dinner menu is far superior.
A good compromise? Go for the buffet, but aim for the cooked items. That’s where all the delicious lurks.

Love love love it. But haven’t been since they stopped the champagne brunch where we were regulars. But I do plan to go back soon just for the food as the food is utterly amazing. I would say that compared to Yan Ting, Cherry Garden has huge highs but some lows, whereas Yan Ting lacks the highs, but is consistently very good across the board for all items.
I don’t know about you, but for free flow dim sum, you can stick to the amazing items. I still dream about the gyoza and the crystal mushroom/​courgette dumplings, and the drunken sesame chicken. Awesome! And don’t forget the chocolate ball desserts, oh my… I could eat those all day. And my friends all loved the mango dessert. Check out my blog for more info! Here is one of my posts:
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I spent two years in Hong Kong so yes I’m picky about my dim sum. And I’ve also always been incredibly disappointed with the dim sum offerings in Singapore. Even back home in Melbourne there were better options than here.
Cherry Garden is the one exception. I will admit that I feel as if the standard has dropped a little since I first came here. But it’s still the best dim sum I’ve ever had in Singapore.
Their dim sum brunch deal is good value for all you can eat. There are a few mis-​steps, eg. the skin on the har gau is too thick, the fried tentacles are bland and the hot & sour soup also lacks punch.
But there are also a lot of hits. The char siu bao is very well executed, the loh bak guo is in the Singapore hawker style rather than the Cantonese dim sum style but tastes excellent, and I highly recommend the wasabi mayo prawns.
Service is professional and polite and the restaurant is a fairly comfortable one to sit in.

Maybe my expectations for this place was too high. I went with my taiwanese friends who were in town, and they wanted to go due to high reviews on trip advisor. The general consensus was a «meh». Sure, it’s a buffet, for a relatively affordable price, but the items are, in my humble opinion, not as tasty as say Imperial Treasures or Crystal Jade dining in. It was oooookay, but nothing blew me away. The soups were a little bland, and the various dumplings were somewhat well, buffet standard. Definitely not coming back.

Why does Singapore work for gluttons like me? Oh yeah, the endless buffets.
It’s only fitting I post a SG review for a Chinese buffet… it harkens back to the good olé days of yore, when I willingly posted about my piggy-​ventures on the east coast. But the difference lies in the standards of this a la carte buffet of Cherry Garden. This place is good. And by good, I mean goooooooood.
Order as many of those little juicy bite-​size delicacies of dim sum as you want, and it arrives steaming hot ready to be scooped up and chomped on. Shrimp fillings are surprisingly plump and springy, and the dumpling skin is not too thick (okay, not super thin, but willing to overlook this small fact).
If an overload of dumplings isn’t enough to satisfy your weekend hangover, top it up with a choice of soup, meat, fish and vegetable dishes– and even dessert! (I recommend the refreshing watermelon aloe dessert in all its liquid nitrogen foggy goodness).
Does this food far exceed any Chinese buffet I’ve ever experienced back home? Um, yes.
The price is only marginally more than you would pay for any normal dim sum excursion, so is it worth it? Um, yes.
Have I gone more times than I can possibly admit on a public forum and not seem ridiculous? Um, yes.