Man Fu Yuan Restaurant

Man Fu Yuan Restaurant
80 Middle Road
Level 2, InterContinental Singapore

https://singapore.intercontinental.com/dine/man-fu-yuan

Selection Of Desserts

Delicious Chinese Mandarin Dishes, Refined Ambience And Service

(Ratings: On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 = Worst and 10 = Best)
Overall: 8
Ambience & Setting: 9
Food & Beverage: 9
Service: 9
Value for Money: 8
Spent about SGD $98++ per person.

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Established since 1995, Man Fu Yuan Restaurant is the in-house Asian restaurant of the InterContinental Singapore hotel. Specialising in exquisite Chinese Cantonese fine dining, Man Fu Yuan Restaurant is lauded for being amongst the best Chinese fine dining restaurants in Singapore, acclaimed by the Michelin Guide, and renowned for beautifully presented dishes made with fresh quality ingredients that showcase an artful balance of flavours.

Ambience at Man Fu Yuan Restaurant is elegant and intimate. The warmly lit, narrow dining hall accommodates just over 170 diners, making advance reservations a must. Furnishings are comfortable, and tableware is immaculate. Decor strikes a balance between contemporary minimalist and traditional Oriental aesthetics, creating a sophisticated yet welcoming ambience.

Service at Man Fu Yuan Restaurant is attentive and efficient. Staff politely greet guests, showing them quickly to their seats, and demonstrating astute product knowledge with descriptions of the menu and its offerings. I note that staff proactively offer to clear finished plates throughout the meal, cleaning up quickly when diners leave. Advance reservations are also a breeze through the online platform.

Food at Man Fu Yuan Restaurant is Chinese Cantonese cuisine. The kitchen is headed by Chef Aaron Tan, who serves up a dim sum ala-carte buffet on weekends and public holidays, priced at SGD $98++ per person. This gets you freshly prepared small tasting plates, unlimited in portion, made with quality ingredients and generally well executed. There's a range of over 40 dishes available, great value for money.

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Man Fu Yan Restaurant Signage

Man Fu Yan Restaurant Exterior

Man Fu Yan Restaurant Interior

Entrance

Decor

Seating

Served as an appetizer, the Coated Peanut Crackers feature deshelled peanuts coated in a seasoned spiced batter, carrying a firm crisp crunch to texture, with nutty sweet salty spice flavour. Good!

Coated Peanut Crackers

The Steamed Rock Lobster With Citrus Golden Capsicum Sauce features a halved rock lobster, simply steamed and glazed with a golden citrus capsicum sauce, topped with micro-greens. The lobster is succulent with a juicy chew to texture, the lovely fresh natural sweet savoury flavour of the meat shining through, followed by the sharp vegetal fruity sour sweet notes of the sauce, tingling the palate. This dish is limited to 1 serving per diner. Highly recommended!

Steamed Rock Lobster With Citrus Golden Capsicum Sauce

The Braised 10-Head Abalone With Scallop, Flower Mushroom, And Spinach features a medley of 10-head abalone, sea scallops, flower mushrooms, spinach, and goji berries / wolfberries, meticulously braised for 48 hours after a 8-day preparation process. The result is tender chewy textures, with bright vegetal sweet earthy savoury salty herbal flavours. This dish is limited to 1 serving per diner. Highly recommended!

Braised 10-Head Abalone With Scallop, Flower Mushroom, And Spinach

The Golden Ingots Nian Gao New Year Cake is created to celebrate Chinese New Year 2025, and features a paste of brown sugar, water, 5-spice powder, rice flour, and glutinous rice flour, formed into a cake and steamed, then garnished with grated coconut. This has a sticky dense texture, with earthy floral sweet grainy flavour. This dish is limited to 1 serving per diner. Good!

Golden Ingots Nian Gao New Year Cake

The Honey-Glazed Duroc Barbecued Pork Bun features fluffy soft steamed rice flour buns, filled with tender barbecued marinated duroc pork meat glazed with honey. This has lovely bready sweet meaty savoury floral flavour. Taste is mild and light, gentle on the palate and not greasy. Good!

Honey-Glazed Duroc Barbecued Pork Bun

Honey-Glazed Duroc Barbecued Pork Bun

The Marinated Sliced Pumpkin With Passion Fruit Sauce features thinly sliced pumpkin marinated in passion fruit sauce, resulting in a crisp tender texture and bright fruity floral sour vegetal sweet zesty tangy flavour. Nice zing on the palate. Good!

Marinated Sliced Pumpkin With Passion Fruit Sauce

Loved the Soya Sauce Braised Corn-Fed Yuen Chicken, Rose Dew Wine. The young sakura corn-fed chicken is blanched then braised in an intensely aromatic stock of light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, star anise, cinnamon, cloves, bay leaves, Chinese black cardamom, and Sichuan peppercorn, for about 50 minutes, interspersed with resting every 15 minutes or so. Finished with a rose dew wine glaze. The chicken is nicely succulent tender juicy in texture, with enticing meaty savoury salty sweet herbal flavour. Highly recommended!

Soya Sauce Braised Corn-Fed Yuen Chicken, Rose Dew Wine

The Honey-Glazed Barbecued Pork Belly features marinated pork belly glazed with a delicate coat of honey, barbecue roasted till beautifully caramelised on the surface. Has a tender juicy soft chew, with smoky meaty savoury salty sweet flavour that is so addictive. Highly recommended!

Honey-Glazed Barbecued Pork Belly

The Roast Duck With Chinese Herbs features tender juicy succulent roast duck marinated with dang gui / angelica root, star anise, cardamom, and bay leaves. The result is bold smoky meaty herbal savoury sweet flavour, yum. Highly recommended!

Roast Duck With Chinese Herbs

Loved the Chef’s Signature Double-Boiled Chicken Soup so much, we ordered a 2nd helping. This features tender bone-in chicken with meaty sweet herbal savoury flavour that pulls easily apart, in a thin double-boiled soup flavoured with dang gui / angelica root and ginseng root that carries herbal earthy sweet savoury bitter flavour. Highly recommended!

Chef’s Signature Double-Boiled Chicken Soup

The Braised Diced Giant Grouper, Bitter Gourd, Black Bean Sauce features deboned chunks of flaky soft giant grouper fish fillets, tender crunchy bitter gourd slices, crisp red onion slices, and crunchy bell peppers / capsicum, all braised in a stock of light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, black beans, white pepper, and black pepper, garnished with fresh coriander. Carries lovely meaty savoury salty vegetal earthy sweet bitter peppery spice flavour. Pairs well with white rice. Good!

Braised Diced Giant Grouper, Bitter Gourd, Black Bean Sauce

The Sautéed Pork With Sweet And Sour Roselle Sauce, Pineapple, Lychee features diced cubes of pork loin stir-fried with roselle sauce, pineapple sauce, pineapple chunks, bell peppers / capsicum, and lychee. Has tender juicy chewy textures with bright meaty savoury fruity sour sweet flavour that is lovely and delicious. Highly recommended!

Sautéed Pork With Sweet And Sour Roselle Sauce, Pineapple, Lychee

The Braised Pork Knuckle, Sand Ginger, Superior Soya Sauce was the only mediocre dish we had here. The braised pork knuckle was firm and dry in texture, though the taste of meaty salty savoury earthy herbal spice flavour was decent. Could be improved.

Braised Pork Knuckle, Sand Ginger, Superior Soya Sauce

The Minced Pork Congee, Century Egg, You Tiao features a thick gloopy rice congee with bouncy century egg slices, crisp spring onions, and crunchy fried you tiao / dough fritters. Has grainy sweet savoury eggy earthy vegetal bready flavour, so nice and comforting. Good!

Minced Pork Congee, Century Egg, You Tiao

Loved the Cream Of Mango, Pomelo, Peach Collagen, which has creamy thick mango cream puree filled with chunks of juicy pomelo and bouncy peach infused collagen cubes. This dessert carries fruity sweet flavour, balanced and refreshing on the palate. Highly recommended!

Cream Of Mango, Pomelo, Peach Collagen

The Soy Milk With Osmanthus, Aloe Vera has thin soy milk soup infused with osmanthus flowers and filled with chunks of bouncy aloe vera jelly cubes. Served chilled, this carries lovely milky earthy sweet floral flavour. Good!

Soy Milk With Osmanthus, Aloe Vera

The Eight Treasure Tea With Peach Collagen, Dried Longan, Pumpkin Glutinous Rice Ball features a warm thin 8-treasure tea soup (made with rose flowers, chrysanthemum flowers, dried longan, goji berries / wolfberries, red dates, ginseng, rock sugar, and green tea leaves) filled with bouncy peach collagen, juicy dried longan, and soft chewy pumpkin glutinous rice balls. Has earthy fruity sweet grainy herbal flavour, a complex yet soulful taste. Highly recommended!