Yixing Xuan Teahouse

I love this teahouse.
They have very very affordable dimsum and great tea (you can get a pot or individual cups with a strainer and the tea inside, which are hot water refillable). The tea is obviously more expensive than what you get at a coffeeshop which uses powder or whatever (I do love my kopi though — it’s just different); it’s a given I don’t think people should complain about. It’s a great place to go to for lunch or a mid-​afternoon tea if you are in the Tanjong Pagar area.
Something you must try (asides from the dimsum) is the green tea pancake with red bean paste inside. I love everything green tea and red bean, so this may be biased, but I think they did a good job. The pancake seems fried or something, so it it hot and has a crunch when you bite into it. and it’s sooo good! It’s the highlight of my visits there.

We came here for a department lunch – there are a good range of options, both of teas (premium and regular oolong, anyone?) and food (individual portions like fried rice, and things to share). I liked the tea-​steamed chicken and the crispy pancake with red bean paste. Service was brisk, but one of the staff kept trying to upsell, which was a bit uncomfortable.

I was looking for something light to eat when I chanced upon this Teahouse. The menu from outside looked appealing with multiple varieties of Dim Sum. Things quickly took a turn though when I started to order with many items on the menu being not available so I finally settled with fried rice and prawn paste wings. Thankfully the two dishes that came were good. The fried rice was light similar to the ones you get at Crystal Jade which I throughly enjoyed and the wings were just as good as well with a thin prawn paste crusting. If you’ve tried prawn paste wings, they tend to have a heavy crusting so it almost taste like a deep fried ball of flour so this one was a pleasant surprise for me. The ironic thing though was I had a coke instead of tea despite being in a Teahouse but it was just way too hot outside for tea. Looking forward to try some of their tea in the near future. Overall, a nice quiet place for small oriental bites!