Shanghai Restaurants in Singapore and Takashimaya

(This page is for SEO testing purpose) Recommending Takashimaya restaurants Takashimaya is a department store located at the Somerset / Orchard area. I used to visit it a lot when I worked in Singtel (Somerset) as it really got some nice restaurants that are definitely worth a try (let alone the food hall at Basement 2). I'd like to recommend some of them to you & if you are tired of shopping in the area, pay a visit to those restaurants and you won't be disappointed. Imperial Treasure Fine Shanghai Cuisine @ Takashimaya (御园) @ Takashimaya / Ngee Ann City Picture taken from archello.com A Fine Shanghai Cuisine Concept.  Imperial Treasure Fine Shanghai Cuisine is located in the heart of Orchard district. Indulge in the finest ingredients coupled with impeccable service that will put together an extravagant dining experience for all. One of my favorite hometown dishes, Gui Hua Tang Ou (Sweer Lotus Root with osmanthus). Actually i...

(This page is for SEO testing purpose) Recommending Shanghai restaurant in Singapore I was not born in Shanghai, but generally people from the Jiang Nan area (Shanghai, Zhejiang, Southern Jiangsu) have similar taste for food. In fact we share a lot of traits in common: our food is similar, we speak the same type of dialect ("Wu", although it can be further classified into many sub-genres), we are all stereotyped as “cool and calculating” etc. Shanghai! Picture taken from chinahighlights.com I came to Singapore several years ago and if I have to name one thing that I miss about hometown, it will be FOOD (especially Sheng Jian Bao - my favorite Shanghai / Jiang Nan cuisine). Fortunately, Singapore has a good variety of authentic Chinese restarutants and some of them are indeed Shanghainese. (Although from my observation, Shanghai food is not very popular among Singaporeans, compared to other Chinese food like Sichuan and Cantonese). As a local Jiangnanese I'd lik...