The Place Taking over the now defunct Chef Wan restaurant at the new wing of Plaza Singapura is Nanjing Impressions, an established brand from Nanjing, China which recently opened its first overseas outlet in Singapore. With more than 40 outlets over major cities in China, we were surprised to see a strong crowd on its opening day, despite the huge space it has taken over with about 300 seats. The interior of Nanjing Impressions is reminiscent of the olden Chinese city, from its utensils and even to its menu which resembles the Chinese secret manual. The Food Unlike Sichuan cuisine which is quite the rage in Singapore in the past year (think the Two-Michelin starred Shisen Hanten, or the few months old Birds of A Feather), we found out that Nanjing cuisine is anything but heavy in terms of flavour. The dishes we tried were generally light, and we also experience some slight misalignment between what we expect and the actual flavour of the dishes. We started off with some cold dishes such as the Jinling Singnature Salted Duck (S$16.80/small, S$32/medium, S$62/big), Nanjing Chilled Vegetarian Delights (S$10.80/portion) and Sesame-scented Beancurd Julienne (S$11.80/portion). Our favourite is the seemingly simple Nanjing Chilled Vegetarian Delights, which contains an assortment of crunchy [...]![]()
