Hua Ting Restaurant

Taken here for a business lunch by bosses. All the food was yummy, especially the Peking duck. Crispy skin was mouthwatering! Hot stone fried rice with cheese came an hour after ordering it🤣🤣🤣 it was deliciousssss

Background A stalwart of Singapore’s Cantonese dining scene, Hua Ting Restaurant has long been revered for its traditional dim sum and seafood offerings. Housed within a hotel, it carries the weight of expectation. Ambience The setting is classic hotel Chinese with plush carpets, crisp white tablecloths, and an understated elegance that borders on generic. Service It was disappointingly lax for a restaurant of this calibre. Menus materialised only after prompting, tea pots ran dry without refills, and staff seemed perpetually one step behind. Food & Drink The kitchen, at least, holds up its end. The Crispy Lychee Prawn Ball was a masterclass in texture, with a crackling exterior giving way to sweet, bouncy prawn. The fish congee was silkily comforting, and the vegetarian cheong fun was tasty. Overall Hua Ting’s dim sum remains good, but the experience feels like a luxury car with a sputtering engine.

Came to celebrate my wife and brothers birthday. Had the $118 set with family. Enjoyed the double boiled chicken soup, hor fun & mango sago. The goose web was a new experience too. Website was outdated so they don't serve the birthday set anymore, but other than that, all was good. Will definitely be back again!

Our dining experience was nothing short of remarkable. The service, led by Sophia and assist by Grace, both are attentive and professional, adding a thoughtful touch to the meal. Sophia’s sharing of her personal journey brought an unexpected and inspiring element to the table, enriching the atmosphere with positivity and warmth. The meal itself was a testament to Hua Ting’s culinary expertise. The famous chicken pie was delightfully flaky and flavorful, while the char siew and roasted pork were perfectly seasoned and tender. The Beijing duck was a standout—crispy skin and succulent meat paired beautifully with traditional accompaniments. Even the simpler dishes, like the sprouts, were well-prepared, and the desserts were the perfect ending, with each bite balancing sweetness and texture impeccably. Hua Ting is truly a testament to fine Cantonese dining, delivering a memorable experience with its timeless dishes and refined ambiance. It’s a place where tradition meets sophistication, leaving diners eager to return. Specially shoutout to Sophia, thank you.

17/04/25 Is has been awhile since I visited the restaurant. The service is still top notch. Food is good, unique and same goes to the quality. One of the best Chinese restaurant in town.

One of my favourite Cantonese restaurant in sg. Roasted duck, birds’ nest and chili prawn are must have orders. Unfortunately dropped Michelin star last year. Might because they hire service people not trained well, very hard to communicate.

Had dim sum and some main dishes but nothing stands out. Service from Meng Chue was exceptional. Thank you for going out of the way and making our day.

Excellent meal, set and a la carte menus are both delicious. The pork rib is large and juicy and Garoupa rice is flavourful. Smoked pu-er peking duck was crispy and nice pancakes, though the meat was a tiny bit dry chppped and would choose another preparation. Terrific service by Jessica and Heng Qua.

Amazing food and impeccable services. I started off with one of the best dim sum experiences in Singapore. Service- I entered at 11:30 opening time without reservations you usually need one. The entrance manager let me in. The dining female manager was attentive and kind to help me order one I love. The top server, Meng Chue, explained food well with warm kind services. Amazing! Food - prepared beautifully and tasted very delicate. Very impressive. I felt love of food with pride. Meng Chue brought two kinds of house-made chili sauces. I wanted to steal them in my bag as it can be great with freshly cooked rice home. I ordered Shrimp crystal dumplings, clam/shrimp porridge, Steamed Rice Flour Roll, Crispy Dough Stuffed with Prawn Paste. They were beautiful and tasted amazing. Ambience- is pretty normal, good dining. Not particularly impressive. Plain. Price - I ordered 3 dishes with jasmine tea at total $42. They charge the Chinese tea at Chinese restaurant at 3.80 sgd. That's funny. But with this amazing services and food, I don't mind.

There are few unique disk that I wanted to try. The first one was the "Mango Chicken Tart" which worth for the order. I also recommended the chilli crab bun and Har Gau. The service is ok. They speak some English, but primary in Chinese Mandarin. The is not a common dim sum place, and more toward private room style Chinese restaurant. Due to CNY and they changed to limit menu which we were disappointed not able to order other dim sum. For sure, reservation is required if you are more than two people.

Good service and ambiance fantastic but with set dinner they charge plain water and teas

I came here last weekend for dim sum brunch after couping at home for the past 2+ months during the circuit breaker period. Dining out in times of COVID-19 has definitely changed a lot. There are no more physical menus but QR code for you to scan that will lead you to the e-menu. There will be no more sharing of food too, so each dim sum item we ordered was presented to us and then the waiter will portion it out to everyone equally. It's a nice gesture although I feel that it defeated the purpose of eating dim sum where every basket is displayed on the table and everyone dig-in. But i guess for safety and hygienic reasons, we will have to make do for the time being. :( Not only that, with social distancing in place, that means the restaurant is not running at its full capacity so booking in advance is recommended. Overall a pleasant dining experience at Hua Ting. The food is delicious and each basket of dim sum is executed with finesse. We ordered the crispy duck (half), the signature mango chicken tart, bird's nest dumplings, some bits and pieces of har kow and siew mai, and end the meal with a trio of dessert. The service was attentive but not intrusive. I would definitely put Hua Ting in my list of best dim sum places to try in Singapore. It's not cheap but you get the best of ingredients for what you pay. I recommend this place if you want a leisurely dim sum brunch on a weekend, sans the crowd of the usual Chinese restaurant.

Food quality is declining. Their business is very slow. Dint eat there. My meal was terrible.

Classy Cantonese restaurant at Orchard Hotel with exquisite delectable dim sum. Excellent: - signature baked mango chicken tartlet has crumbly flaky fragrance with sweet savory patty mix. - steamed shrimp dumpling with dried yamakurage has fresh succulent shrimps and delicate skin. - rice noodle roll with crispy soft shell crab had delightful crispy flavor wrapped in soft delicate skin - siew mai freshly prepared with cordycep flower - X.O. Turnip cake delightful fragrance the moment it lands on plate, to savor its yummy goodness.. mmmmm.... - longevity peach buns shou tao prettily hanging on ornamental tree is fun to "pluck" fresh warm to enjoy its delicate fragrant lotus paste. - chilled coconut jelly in fresh coconut husk is a lovely dessert to top off a sumptuous meal Good: - xiao long bao could be better with more broth.

The Peking duck isn't the best in town, but otherwise Hua Ting serves excellent Cantonese dishes. The overall style is conservative, but there are some innovative and yummy creations, usually off the menu. Service, while friendly, does have lapses and is not top-of-class as it lacks warmth. For a private group Chinese meal, this is one of the best venues in Singapore, especially if you work with them to design the menu.

Loved it! Still not sure what's different between hot pot and steamboat, but I recommend this restaurant for their steamboat experience. You first pick 2 from 5 different soups: we picked siswan spicy soup and yam and mushrooms soup as these are the two most popular. This forms a base of cost at little under SGD30. Next you can order appetizers (fried soft shell crab yum), and then pick from various options of meats, seafood, vegetables, noodles, each individually priced. If you're not paying attention it will add up quickly. Set option is also available at under SGD50. We choose our own opinions and the only one I would skip next time is Japanese premium beef because it's so expensive yet when dipped in hot soup it's just over cooked and you can't tell a difference. I loved all the options we ordered: 3 kinda of mushrooms, bok choi, bamboo, shrimp dumplings, glass noodles, grouper, and many meats. I would also skip scallops next time. After you place an order you then go and "build your sauce ", our waitress did it for us and it was an amazing mix of sauce, garlic, sesame seeds, peanuts, shallots, and cilantro. You cook your food in the soup, then dip into sauce, then eat. Despite all the food, we ordered dessert because we saw sesame peanuts dumplings on the dessert menu. This is my favorite Asian dessert that recently overtook glutinous rice desserts. The service was outstanding: our waitress helped us with everything after we told her it was our first time. 20% discount for guests of the hotel.

Haven't been here in years because the service was haphazard at best. They had forgotten to serve dishes before which can be quite embarrassing if you are entertaining. So despite the Ala Carte discount card that gives very good discount, I decided not to patronise this restaurant again. Here only because it is a reunion lunch Organised by an ex-colleague. Service was okay as we were in a room and a Long time senior waitress took our order. Appetiser - fried fish. Looked like fried carrot cake. Yu Sheng - good. Abalone soup - good. Suckling pig was huge. The skin was good and the meat fried with salt & pepper was excellent; best that I've had. Huge steamed batang fish - some of us liked it but not me. Mixed vegetables with my Favourite lily bulb- nice. Mee sua (noodles) with 2 kind of large prawns in soup - very nice soup. Overall a very satisfying lunch. Burp!

This establishment is a stalwart on the Chinese restaurant scene here. We came here on a Sunday morning at 11am, a party of 3 adults and 1 toddler. The seat for this toddler didn't have a belt and a table, so parents, take note. Reservations best be booked early, if you want to enjoy a leisurely Sunday here. We ordered a multitude of things, and everything was of an acceptable standard (or better), and I am hard-pressed to find an item I remotely dislike. Special mention to the puff pastry with scallop (1), baked mango chicken tart (2), liu sha bao (3), and prawn toast (4). 1. I don't like puff pastry anything, but the garlic-scallop filling within... Um. I guess I do like puff pastry after all? 2. Mango chicken tart; doesn't sound like much, but with a "polo bun" crust, chicken pie filling, mango to set it all off... That's a party in my mouth right there. 3. The custard really flowed, with grainy bits of salted egg yolk. Thumbs up! 4. It looks like an ordinary fried item, but this is elevated fried finger food. Yum! My only grouse with this place is that pork cheek is a cut of meat ill-suited for char siew, as it was slightly chewy and not as tender. I do wish they used the shoulder or just plain ol' belly. Special thanks to fellow Yelper Lynne N for the treat! P.S. They are understaffed, but they really make an effort here.

A nice place to come for Sunday dim sum with the family or for a business lunch. White tablecloths, fancy china, excellent service, it's your typical atas restaurant without being too overpriced and/or snobby. Everything we got here was pretty yummy from their roast meats to their actual dim sum, my favorite being the Salted Egg Custard Pau (but that's one of my fav dim sum items in general so potentially a little bias). I can't say anything stood out significantly but this place is definitely up there with the rest of the good hotel dim sum restaurants in Singapore. I will definitely be back.

The food is brilliant. Their roasted duck is something not to miss. My girlfriend had managed to get the restaurant staff to surprise me once on my birthday with a tasty mango cake. She told me after, that she only emailed them what she wanted. When we arrived they gave some signals to her and brought out the candle-lit cake just before we asked for a bill. That was pretty awesome. The only downside, well, I don't know why but the staffs just have to bring food to their "prep" table before serving, making the restaurant look busy all the time even if there are only a few customers.

Hua Ting is the kinda place that inspires hushed whispers of its gastronomical pleasures, even amongst the jaded business lunch clientele. We would go more often if it was located closer to the CBD, or if we had the luxury of longer lazier lunch. Food: The deepfried white bait was light and crisp, and the shark cartilage soup was delicious! The baked mango with chicken tart completely won my jaded dim sum palate over, and the mixed platter (roast duck and two other items I forget) was excellent, as was the baked silver cod with honey. The mango pomelo dessert was decent, but the egg white puffs with durian were quite disappointing, according to those who tried it. Service: Excellent! Ambience: Great place for business lunch. And just lunch in general! This beats other hotel dim sum joints hands down. Reservations a must on weekends.

The soup base is great, meat also nice. It's also good that you can make you're own sauce from the bar. I just think the vegetables are little pricy concerning the amount you get. Try and see! 火鍋としてはスープは美味しく、肉は高めだけどもそこそこのお味、野菜はもう少し量が欲しいところですね。タレは好みで自作できます。iPadでオーダーするのですが、癖があるので二重でオーダーしないようにお気をつけください。 IONにあるImperial火鍋の方が好きですが、さすがに少しお値段がワンランク上になります。 こちらは綺麗で子供も多いので悪くはありません。味は有りですが、野菜の量が少なかったので3つ星にしました。2015/11

I'd forgotten how good this place is. After years of not eating here, I've re-visited the place and I think it is better than before. Hua Ting is well known for its dim sum, but this visit was for dinner. The dishes were all excellent, but particularly outstanding is the Roast duck. Crisp skin, devoid of fat between skin and meat, it was pure heaven. However, dessert was a bit of a letdown. I had the black rice with ice cream. The coconut in which it was served was rather leathery. But of note are the high quality local staff who can communicate in both English and Mandarin, unlike some other restaurants. Plus, the waitresses are very helpful and look really happy to be part of the establishment. I don't know who they've got training over there. But he/she is doing an excellent job.

Such an unfortunate experience. Had been staying at Orchard Hotel all week and finally decided to try this restaurant which was highly recommended and had just gone through a major renovation. The venu was lovely and has a modern/elegant decor. Unfortunately we were seated and then ignored. We mused as we watched people come in after us and have servers flock to place napkins in laps, provide moist towels and menus...my partner and I were the only Anglos in the restaurant, however, having never experienced any form of racism while here in Singapore I still find it hard to believe it was a contributing factor. Nonetheless, we watched other tables receive drinks and finally their first course before finally gaining the attention of one of the 6 wait staff standing idly. He came to our table and said sorry... and gave us one menu...which we shared... and then went on to wait 10 more minutes before finally agreeing there was definitely an issue. As we were leaving several of the idle wait staff seemed to come to life and moved in our direction but we had no intention of prolonging what had been our single solitary poor experience while dining in Singapore. If anyone in the restaurant-management comes across this review, please work on your staff training as it is crucial for a restaurant aspiring to be a fine dining venu.

Hua Ting is newly re opened. We are 2 Americans staying at the Orchard Hotel, we went on a quiet Tuesday evening just after opening at 6 pm. There were other tables of 5, 3 and 2. There were at least 3 service staff visible. It took 10 minutes to get a menu. After waiting an additional 10 minutes, watching other tables being served, we left. It was obvious they were not interested in our business. Sad but true. With all the great Singapore food options, it's not worth going here and risking poor service.