Yan Dining Room - Review - Chinatown - Toronto - The Infatuation

"Yan Dining Room is a $108 per person prix fixe spot inside Chinatown mainstay Hong Shing, a decades-old Dundas favorite known for General Tso's and beef and broccoli. But here you get complex Chinese fusion dishes that channel the essence of Hong Shing into something else entirely. The flaky shaobing “pizza” with sweet roasted ayote squash and fresh dill and Italian-style hand-pulled Cantonese noodles in a clam-and-baijiu French butter sauce spin flavors from across Asia and Europe in a way that feels both cutting-edge and comforting. The star, though, is the broth: sometimes soy-based and brimming with cured meats, pork belly, and bamboo for dim-sum warmth—other times, a simpler quail broth thickened with apricot kernels, tasting of marzipan and pear. Christmas, fall harvest, and Lunar New Year collide in one meal, which is exactly the point." - Erin Hershberg