Peach Garden: Dim Sum Singapore

May 24, 2008 | 8 Comments

Peach Garden Chinese Restaurant @ OCBC Centre 33rd Floor is co-owned by Angela Ho and Veronica Tan, former managers of the established Hua Ting restaurant. The pair struck out on their own in 2002, and the rest like they say, were history. Peach Garden is now one of the Chinese restaurants on the radar of corporates.

Located at the 33rd floor, the restaurant offers diners a splendid bird’s eye view of the Singapore River and the city area.

The modern contemporary Chinese decor will make diner feel right at home.

It will be highly recommended for customers to make a reservation before going, as the window seats are usually taken up. One of the waitress greeted us at the main lobby on the ground floor, after checking our reservations, we were guided up to 33rd floor.

Peach Garden is popular for their Cantonese dishes, and dim sum. The selection for dim sum isn’t wide with 23 different types, however for what they lacked in variety, they make it up in quality.

The appetizer

Most of the dim-sum comes in basket of 3 each, but as we got 8 person, they were flexible to allow us order 8 pieces of dim-sum instead. So i’ll be putting the price for all the dim sum here for per piece rather than per basket.

Baked BBQ pork pastry ($1.30)

The baked BBQ pork pastry, or more commonly known as char-siew sou, i find it to be quite all right, but the others didn’t like it because they had better ones at Yan ting @ St Regis before.

Baked Mini Egg Tart ($1.30)

The baked mini egg tarts were fine, the skin was crispy, and the egg filling is just nice. However at $1.30 each, they are terribly expensive since i had better and bigger egg tarts at much cheaper price before.

Steamed Fresh Prawn Dumpling ($1.60)

The steamed fresh prawn dumpling, or more affectionately known as har-gau. The ones at Peach Garden has a wholesome shrimp wrapped within the skin of the dumpling.

But at $1.60 for each har-gau, they are priced slightly higher than your normal ones at other places.

Steamed Siew Mai with Phoenix prawn ($1.60)

The rendition of siew mai or pork dumpling is redefined at Peach Garden. Whereas your typical siew mai taste mainly of pork, the ones here has a phoenix prawn, which gives the siew mai a prawnier taste.

Steamed BBQ pork bun ($1.20)

I always love to eat steamed BBQ pork buns from chinese dim sum restaurant, well because they are not the same as the ones you get from outside.

The ones in restaurants are usually consist of three parts, i’ll tear off each part and slowly savour the sweet char-siew with the bun.

Fried Carrot cake with X.O sauce ($8)

When you read fried carrot cake, please erase off all of whatever memories you had of carrot cake. Now when we are talking about fried carrot cake with X.O sauce here, its not your ordinary black or white char-kway in the hawker centre.

The carrot cake here is slightly crispy on the outside, and very soft on the inside. But i couldn’t taste much of the X.O sauce, and at $8 per small serving, i find it to be quite on the high side.

Steamed yolk cream bun ($1.20)

The signature dim-sum of Peach Garden, its delicious steamed yolk cream bun. The beautiful golden yellow custard filling oozes out when i prise it open.

Steamed rice roll with prawn ($4.50)

The steamed rice roll with prawn, or your Chee Cheong Fun is served in two versions, one with prawn at $4.50, and the other steamed rice roll with chicken at $4.

The Chee Cheong Fun was quite disappointing here, it didn’t taste as well i thought it will, its quite ordinary to tell the truth.

Boiled porridge with century egg and pork ($3.80)

The boiled porridge with century egg and pork is one of the disappointment for the meal at Peach Garden. Too salty, we ordered 4 bowls and almost couldn’t finish it.

Steamed Xiao Long Bao with Conpoy ($1.30)

I’m not really a big fan of Xiao Long Bao, i guess the ones here are average, a couple of us didn’t really find it to be good.

Baked Spare Rib with BBQ Sauce ($7 per piece)

The signature baked spare rib with BBQ sauce comes at a hefty price, at $7 per piece, you can easily have a plate of spare ribs elsewhere.

But to be fair, the presentation of the spare rib was done nicely, and the rib is bigger than your normal ribs, with the BBQ sauce combining well with spare ribs.

There were difference in portions of the ribs, so depending on your luck, some of us got slightly bigger ribs with more meat, while some got thinner ribs.

Total Bill was $178.20 for 8 person, after a 15% credit card discount. The price comes much cheaper than i had expected so it was a surprise, and if you do not included the $7 spare ribs, it will be roughly $16 for person instead of about $22.

Results were mixed, some like me found it to be quite good, while others find that Peach Garden didn’t match their expectations. I guess everybody has different taste buds, but personally, i find Peach Garden to be quite good, the price may be slightly above average, but given a rationale person taking the menu and not over-ordering, the result is good dim sum at reasonable price.

Service-wise we also encountered mixed results. The waitress were way too fast in serving the dim-sum. As the table was all food bloggers, all of us were busy taking photos of the food, and before we managed to finish taking the photo of one dim sum, the other dim sum was served.

I felt that the waitress should have taken note that we were not ready for the serving of the other dim sum, but sad to say they failed to do so. Also, they missed out our order of Xiao Long Bao and the ribs, and also forgot to bring us our additional order of the har-gau.

But they did slightly make up when they helped us putting the birthday cake (one of us birthday celebration) into a beautiful plate, and they also provide a knife which had remote control to play birthday song music.

All in all, at 33rd floor offering a wonderful view of the city, the quite reasonable pricing of the dim-sum, it offers me an excuse to revisit Peach Garden again. And Peach Garden has two other outlets at Novena and Thomson Plaza!

Peach Garden
65 Chulia Street #33-01
OCBC Centre
Tel: 6535 7833

” Contemporary Cantonese cuisine, with splendid bird’s eye view of the city “

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8 Responses to “Peach Garden: Dim Sum Singapore”

Tianhong
May 24th, 2008 @ 3:03 pm

nice to meet you at the social media breakfast

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JOjo
May 24th, 2008 @ 3:22 pm

Hmm…The price is pretty high but not as high as i have expected it to be. Still affordable i guess.
The mini egg tart looks good, fluffy pastry.
I had a bad experience with mini egg tart at dim sum place, dry and no egg taste at all, and it costs me $1!!! *fainted*

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Camemberu
May 24th, 2008 @ 11:10 pm

Hmm, maybe their a la carte main dishes are better?
I’ve been wanting to try Peach Garden for the longest time….too distracted by so many other food places to go!

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ladyironchef
May 24th, 2008 @ 11:35 pm

Hello Tianhong: Nice meeting you too!

Hello Jojo: Yeah quite affordable if you don’t over-ordered. hm, the mini egg tart here is $1.30, even worse than yours. lol

Hello Camemberu: Not sure, you try let me know. But their dim sum are not bad i guess. Hahaha! you got so many places to go to. lol
Mama BoK
May 26th, 2008 @ 4:33 pm

Still affordable.. but did you all have enough..? the ribs way too ex lor..!

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ladyironchef
May 26th, 2008 @ 6:01 pm

Hello Mama Bok: We didn’t over-order, i guess the dim sum was quite enough to fill us up! Yeah the ribs were literally quite a rip-off, but they are nice : )
His Food Blog
May 28th, 2008 @ 10:54 am

Haha, I disagree – I reckon if not for the birthday cake, we would probably be heading for Macs for burgers! Heh.

It’s time like this that you appreciate Victor’s Kitchen more for its value for money dim sum. One Har Kaw per pax just don’t work out for me – I rather have a whole basket to myself anytime.

The ribs though nice is really a rip-off. There is no consistency in the serving – same came without the layer of fats on it and come really lean and skinny.

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ladyironchef
May 28th, 2008 @ 8:45 pm

Hello HFB: Thats why i emphasize taste is subjective and different people like diff stuff.

I never try Victor’s kitchen, probably will try it soon. Ya i do agree the ribs are a rip off, 7 bucks for a piece of rib. Gosh, its a one time thing that i will order.

Peach Garden: Dim Sum Singapore

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