My friends and I decided to have dim sum on Sunday, 24 August'14 at Spring Ju Chun Yuan Restaurant 聚春园 , located at Far East Square on Amoy Street (one of Singapore's oldest, historical sites, nestled in the Central Business District area). This is our first visit to the restaurant. My friend read many good reviews about this restaurant and the dim sum lunch buffet priced at $24 per person seems like an attractive deal :)
What intrigued me most was that Ju Chun Yuan is housed in a building of a former school named Chui Eng Free School, established in 1854 (one of the first Chinese free schools to provide free education to the poor). The roof tiles, the old Chinese architecture and its colour palette consisting predominant shades of grey and subtle touches of red and green, makes the place nostalgic and unique. It's two-storey interior is elegant, tranquil and neat with glass windows overlooking Far East Square which might have been a courtyard. A perfect place for a quiet gathering.
We enjoyed an array of dim sum including inter alia, Cantonese siew mai, lotus wrapped rice, har gao, congee, as well as Northern-style guo tie and noodles, accompanied with a pot of pu-er tea (a rather neutral and lighter-in-caffeine Chinese tea) nicely laid on a white cloth on our table. We had osmanthus jelly for dessert after our mains too. We had a good time discussing about the legal system in UK and Singapore. My friend shared his internship experience in a law firm in Shanghai. It's good to catch up with friends returning for a summer vacation from the UK. Though they will face a tough competition after they graduate, since law minister Shanmugam recently mentioned that there are too many law graduates, I'm sure my friends will strive hard to succeed throughout their practice training and bar course.
Perhaps we'll meet up for another round of dim sum at Ju Chun Yuan another time when we're all free :)
The nostalgic entrance of Ju Chun Yuan
Zha jiang mian
Beef tendon noodles
Assorted dim sum, including inter alia, lotus wrapped rice, siew mai, beancurd skin roll, har gao, poached vegetables guo tie & dumplings. Value for money dim sum buffet @ $24 per person.
Spring Ju Chun Yuan 聚春园
#01-01, Far East Square, 130 Amoy Street
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