Lei Garden Restaurant (Chijmes)

We visited Lei Garden for our CNY celebration, and the festive atmosphere was delightful. The restaurant was filled with joyful CNY songs, and the warm, attentive staff made us feel welcome—always a good sign. Located in Chijmes, right in the heart of town, Lei Garden is easily accessible and surrounded by plenty of things to do, making it a great spot for both dining and sightseeing. Lei Garden serves Chinese cuisine with a local touch, offering generous portions and quick service. Roasted Pork – Absolutely delicious! The meat was juicy and tender, while the skin was perfectly crispy—a standout dish. Peking Duck – Decent, but what we enjoyed most was the stir-fried duck bones. The sauce was rich and flavorful, and the meat was juicy, making it hard to stop eating—we finished it within 10 minutes! Crab Meat Fried Bee Hoon – Another amazing dish! It had a strong wok hei and a wonderful seafood aroma, making it incredibly flavorful. The portion was also generous. Other dishes – Consistently delicious across the board. Dessert: Mango Pomelo Sago – Refreshing and well-balanced, with fresh mango and pomelo. Not overly sweet, making it the perfect way to end the meal. We thoroughly enjoyed our meal at Lei Garden and will definitely return. Highly recommended for a great dining experience with authentic flavours and generous portions!

We chanced upon this restaurant and ate 3x within 2 weeks. Tried $58 lunch set. It is a good deal. We add in dim sums. We also tried $138, $158 sets and alar carte. What we enjoy: 1 dim sums! I see a whole prawn Har gar and it is crunchy and sweet, unlike conventional ones that uses bland crystal prawns. Siew Mai fillings are fresh, unliked others that is mushy. Teo chew kueh is my personal favourite, bursting with different textures eg creamy from yam, crunch from water Chestnut and fried peanut. Zao Huang Gao aka date kueh is QQ and not overly sweet. Other dishes to try: Scallop fried rice: it has very nice wok hey and the scallops are so sweet! We love it more than Taipei Ding Tai Fung egg fried rice. Fish noodle soup: the broth is like rich chicken collagen soup. Grouper fish slice was thick and fresh. Not fishy at all! Seafood poach rice: it was very ceremonial. Love the crisp rice texture. Broth is flavourful. I like that the restaurant catered to my request to remove shark fin from my crab soup. It still tasted good. Go for the sour and spicy version. Restaurant has good service. Very ceremonial presentation before putting the food to the side to portion. I noticed they always covered up the food with lid during transfer from kitchen to dinning table. Thumbs up for this hygienic practice. Tip: Go around 11:30am or 1:30pm to avoid the crowd and for better service. Waitress Anna is really friendly and chatty. Staff is also attentive to help top up tea! Will be back to try more dishes!

DIsappointing experience at Lei Garden Chimes. We had our familyreunion dinner at Lei Garden and unfortunitely, it was a major letdown. The tea served was incredibly diluted and lacking favour. THe fish and scallop werenot fresh, which was quite surprising given the reputation of the place. To top it off, the majority of the dishes served were cold- nothing was warm, which really ruined the overall dining experience. For the price we paid, we expected much better quality and service. Sadly, we will not be returning here again. Very disappointing.

I think this is still the best dimsum place I’ve been to in Singapore. The Peking duck wasn’t as impressive so I usually skip that— instead you need to try their Crispy Pork 冰烧三层—and don’t miss out on the Honey BBQ Pork 蜜汁叉烧. Just get both you won’t regret it. The dimsums are, needless to say, delicious, but the real star is the Charsiu Bao. So pillowy soft and a little chewy with the most delicious roasted pork filling. I can devour ten in one seating. Highly recommend this spot!

Nice and enjoyable dim sum experience. Love their signature menus, also thank you to Mr Darren Ngeow who took good care of us. We will come back !!

Indeed good standard food & service provided by Lei Garden Restaurant (Chijmes) & nice ambience. It warrants to come back to try other Michelin dishes First time ordering the following dish Barbecued Peking Duck $49 half (MUST TRY) (Best dishes amongst Chinese recipe ) Sautéed beef cubes with scallion $52 per (Tender, well cooked, very tasty) Barbecue roasted quail $28 whole (Michelin recommend dish) (Crispy fried ) Stir fried baby asparagus with common yam rhizome & ginko nuts $28 per portion Dessert Double boiled peach resin and white fungus with almond cream served in whole coconut per pax $15 (Michelin recommend dish Second time for Father birthday Barbecued Peking Duck $49 half $98 whole Sautéed beef cubes with scallion $52 per Barbecued Honey Pork & Crispy Roasted Pork $22 + $28 Steam Alaska King Crab with Chinese Wine $32 per 100gram Stir fried Green Dragon Vegetables with minced salted fish & bean sprout $28 Deep Fried Tofu Coated with Salted Egg Yolk $13

If you like Cantonese soup, the double boiled deluxe clear soup is a must try. Concentrated and full of flavour. We had the seafood set together with the soup, a pork dish and desserts. The Peking duck wrap was good. The duck meat eaten on its own was average. The grouper was fresh. We like the pork dish & the lobster with noodles. Won’t recommend the fried durian as it lacked flavour. Overall we enjoyed the dinner. The service staff was attentive. Plates were changed without asking. Will definitely return to try the other dishes.

Peking duck is crispy and fragrance. All other food are good as well. We ordered the truffle crab meat (1 pax) to share and the taste and texture was very special, the portion is just good to share. Thumbs up for their services, always very alert and approach us before we even ask for it.

Has been here at least more than 10 times. The food is really delicious! It's not fusion Chinese food, it stays to it's Origin and at it's VERY best. I had dim sum and I appreciate that it's not fusion food, not trying to put Truffle oil in every dish. Instead it's a Traditional taste, with the best cooking technique and Fresh ingredients. For me that's a winner. Service staff is efficient and though short handed , I can feel the sincerity in making the service good. We also had the Peking duck but honestly not very nice. Try their other dishes, which are all spot on! I would Recommend this restaurant, It's one of the Best "Non-fusion" Chinese restaurant.

My friends took me to eat dim sum here. Love this place!!! Yummy Pecking duck! Yummy winter melon soup(not on the menu)! Yummy all the different type of dumplings. This restaurant is a keeper!!!

Michelin star restaurant #2. The good first: Excellent selection of Cantonese food which you will not find in usual Chinese restaurants. A large dining area which means you can actually get a seat here (as opposed to most 10-15 seater places with stars which are booked out months ahead). Loved the braised pork in chinese wine, and the braised vegetables which included some unknown to me veggies but with excellent texture. Also got the crab dumplings which were ok. The bad: The service wasn't up to the standards I was expecting from a Michelin star place. Very unattentive, not refilling your water, taking forever to give the drinks, also they were not able to explain a lot of the dishes very well.

Very good Chinese food with excellent service. I came here one night for business dinner and really enjoyed their food and service. My business partner pre-ordered dinner so I don't know how much it was but it seemed high end Chinese restaurant. Great selection of wine by bottle, wide variety, it was easy to find what I liked. Everything chosen for me that night was excellent. Peking duck was crisp with great flavor, pork, tofu, soup... all was excellent. I didn't see the menu and the server spoke mostly in Chinese so I didn't quite get the name of food. Service was excellent, she was attentive, served next food just when we were finishing one, kept coming back to pour more wine, changed a plate for each dish served. I likes they prepared two chopsticks, black one is to pick food from shared plate and white one to eat from your plate. It was a pleasant evening with great food. Highly recommend for business dinner.

Peking Duck is delicious , truffle fried rice and fish must try ! Escalopes and veggies are fresh ! My favorite is side cucumber dish too. Love the pomelo mangoes dessert ! We had a big table but NO ROTATING TRAY ! The service is good . HAPPY to have the toilet on the same floor ! Shall be back !

Despite the uneven reviews, we went for brunch...and are so glad we did! The building and the entire Cjimes complex are visually appealing and harken back to times long past. The room is well spaced, with a comfortable feeling (see pic). The food was absolutely delicious. We had a half Peking duck which yielded ten little pancakes in which slivers of the skin and meat were nestled. As with most purveyors, the remaining meat was then taken back to the kitchen to turn into a polished fried rice dish (we could have opted for noodles). We also enjoyed: - Roasted crispy pork. These crispy little cubes were absolute heaven! I ordered the same thing later that day at another well known restaurant...no where near as good as these were. I could easily opt for a big plate of these for my last supper - Fried silver fish. If it weren't for their tiny black eyes, you would assume a plate of Mickey D's fries! - Flaky pastry with shredded turnip in a crazily shaped dough - Steamed Shanghainese dumplings (nearly impossible to coral onto the serving spoon or grab with the sticks...you might ask for a fork, particularly if you're in a hurry) - Panfried stuffed red chili, green chili and eggplant ...There was NOT a miss in the bunch! While I feel we were well served, I can appreciate some of the service related comments offered by other yelpers. While hard working, staff could be a bit "smoother around the edges," and interactions were sometimes abrupt. They were constantly ensuring our tea cups were full...if I were a bit more jet lagged I might had minded the frequency. Language was uneven across the staff, such using the wrong word or our needing to repeat..but, again, we really didn't mind. To the contrary one of our many servers was very polished and extremely customer focused, having done a great job. Among a myriad of duties (including rolling a table through the dining room), he was on point for the Peking duck experience! I can only speak to the midday dim sum experience, but we feel this was a home run and a memorable experience...a definite recommend.

3.5 stars. Upscale 1-michelin star Chinese cuisine in Singapore. We went there for Chinese New Year and went for their Chinese New Year set dinner. Experience was solid good. Food was overall quite good but not spectacular. Favorite dishes were the chicken, Lo Hei, and the fish. Quality of ingredients and excellent and the food was well-cooked but don't' think it was worth the $200/pax given the lack of wow factor. Set was quite big and we were all stuffed by the end of the meal

This place is exquisite! I can definitely understand why it is a Michelin-starred restaurant. It is within walking distance from city hall/raffles city areas. It is located in a little "restaurant village" called the chijmes. The outside area is a beautiful garden theme. You will walk in to an elegant building where they will escort you to your table either downstairs or upstairs. There are very many exotic yet edible sea creatures in tanks stacked in three rows towards the end of the downstairs dining room. The servers are a little familiar with the English language; however, most items in the menu are pictured as well so ordering isn't too bad of a task. Food was wonderful- each dish was refreshingly tasty. They also have an in-house restroom, which is also a perk. I would definitely try this restaurant again!

I had a satisfying meal at Lei Garden in Shanghai just a week ago. Looking forward to experience the same, I brought my family at Lei Garden in Singapore. Unfortunately, i was quite disappointed. Taste is different for the bbq honey pork. Very little serving for the crispy pork. Overpriced fried rice. Only the Chicken in Abalone was the same. The 3-star rating is limited to the dishes we ordered tonight vs same dishes I had in Shanghai.

Soup prepared to the finest taste. Simply love the milky texture and sweet taste after long hours of cooking

Good food, in smallish costly portions though. The drinks are pretty good but very expensive. I would give it 4 stars with prices 20% lowerz

Not the best place if you looking for good service. The waiter offered to portion out the fish for our table of 10 diners but he obviously has a problem dividing the portions equally. In the end, the 10th person is left with just a little bit of meat on the fin of a fish. The Longevity noodles, however, was the best I've had. The texture was springy enough and very tasty. It is not too salty. Moist enough, yet not oily. As the dinner was a birthday celebration, I have no complaint on the cost.

Chinese fine dinning, great food, great ambience and great service. This is one of the best place to get great authentic traditional Cantonese food.

Since moving to Singapore, I've been on a quest for the best dim sum in town. I found me 3 girlfriends who share the same passion for steamed dumplings and we've been on a mission since. Our ratings are based on: 1) Overall Yumminess (one shouldn't be trekking to a dim sum spot for any one particular dish) 2) Ambiance 3) Service Having previously lived in HK, Lei Garden has been on the radar so we finally booked last Saturday: Definitely amongst the better har gows and siu mais in town. Far from the best, but sitting comfortably above the mediocre line. Everything arrived promptly, which is always key for two reasons: dim sum ought to be served pipping hot, and more importantly to maximize variety at any given moment. The space was nice enough, a bit tired, but comfortable and pleasant with a nice weekend crowd. The kind of place you could invite fellow yummy mummies or future in-laws to. Service - everyone was friendly and adequate though they didn't give me much else to say about that. Verdict: I've added Lei Gardens to our Return list, which isn't bad considering there are only about 3-4 other places on the list.

Been here a couple of times and i got to say I love the ambience of this place. And along with some good food its a good experience. Service is great as well and I have no complains about this place.

Very expensive and the waiters hassle you to order more food than you will actually eat. I don't get a lot of things about this place, like why people eat little tortillas with only a piece of duck skin inside. If I hadn't been there on business, I wouldn't have gone. The wasabi shrimp were good though.

Michelin star dim sum? Sign me up! The dim sum overall was delicious. The flavors are much more delicate than standard dim sum so you really need to be present to fully enjoy. I highly recommend the crispy pork belly cubes. The service was good...maybe too good? We weren't "allowed" to pour our own tea. In one attempt, two staffers ran towards us and grabbed the tea kettle from our hands to pour our tea. I also had an "encounter" with a waitress that wouldn't allow me to rest my phone and wallet on the floor, just under my chair (I do this because I'm easily distracted by the constant stream of push messages on my phone. My goal is to put the phone away and to be fully engaged with my friends.) So, how did the waitress resolve this? She brought another chair over and set it besides our table for my phone and wallet to be placed...properly. :) I was tickled by this experience. Overall, highly recommended.

This ranks amongst the top dim sum / cantonese cuisine restaurant in Singapore, IMO. Food quality and service is top notch; but what make them stand out amongst the top is the price. Value for money!!!