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2014-04-03
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So my friend who’s visiting wanted to have Szechuan food while she’s in town and lucky for her, I’m always craving for spicy food We decided to try out Yun Yan at Times Square which had been on my wishlist for a while. The restaurant moved here from their old location at TST and serves more modern, fusion-esque Szechuan cuisine.Although we went on a Sunday afternoon (not to mention it was the Rugby 7 weekend), the restaurant was rather empty compared to the dimsum restaurants next door. The int
Although we went on a Sunday afternoon (not to mention it was the Rugby 7 weekend), the restaurant was rather empty compared to the dimsum restaurants next door. The interior is bright, spacious and very modern looking.
It’s hard to tell from the panorama but the tables are huge! We had a hard time hearing each other haha.Instead of the usual peanuts each table is served with a small bowl of glazed spicy popcorn to start. That made me super super happy because I’m a sucker for sweet popcorn plus anything with peppercorn in it ^_^
It was light and not overly spicy – if I had this at home I could demolish a whole bag of this by myself heheheAt the long table where we were sitting there were mini condiment bars wedged between every 4 seats. While I like the variety of the sauces it felt weird to have to reach across the customers sitting next to us for it.
Since there were only two of us that day we didn’t order a lot. After looking through the menu for 10 minutes we decided to order a main dish and a side dish to share.The side came first – “Lampshade Beef” 燈影牛肉 which is one of their specialties.
-It is so-named because the beef is so translucent that it resembles lampshades, and light is able to pass through it. Google tells me that the preparation process is quite complicated, which involves marinating, drying, baking, steaming, deep frying & stir frying. This is definitely something you would want to eat outside ;)-I’ve never had this dish before so I can’t tell if they’ve done it well or not. The taste is unusual – it is very sweet but still had a very strong beefy taste. It also wasn’t too spicy
-Instead of being crunchy as I’d imagined, it actually turned chewy in my mouth and got both of our jaws tired from chewing too much haha
-I think this is an interesting dish worth trying – though I’d recommend sharing it with more people so that you don’t tire your jaws out
For our main we ordered Rice Cake with Marinated Pork 金銀風肉煎年糕
-We actually found more veggies than meat in this dish, but that’s okay because we both love munching on the crunchy spring onion-The star of this dish is really the rice cake. They are pan fried before being stir fried with the other ingredients, which gave each piece a light crust. It was slightly crunch on the outside the inside remains soft and chewy. I loved it! My friend didn’t though as she prefers the more traditional, “wet” kind of stir fried rice cake
-The dish itself wasn’t spicy but that’s fine since it gave us a chance to try the different condiments.
To finish off our meal I ordered what I came here for – their peppercorn ice cream!
This is just as good as I imagined – sweet, only slightly spicy but there is no lack of ‘numbing’ sensation from the peppercorn! If only they made the ice cream less icy in texture then it would have been perfect! Our bill totalled to around $280 so it’s rather pricy. I wish I could come back though since there are too many other dishes I want to try!
张贴
