Yan Palace vs Spring Courts
燕阁 vs 詠春园
Both restaurants are located near Chinatown MRT Station, very convenient if you are planning for a gathering with guests living at different areas of SIngapore.
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Yan Palace 燕阁 (Chinatown Branch)
Blk 531 Upper Cross Street #01-49
Hong Lim Complex Singapore 050531
Website: www.yanpalace.sg/contact.html
Tel: 6222-2516 | Fax: 6533-2013
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Spring Court 詠春园
52-56 Upper Cross Street
Singapore 058348
Website: www.springcourt.com.sg/
Tel: 6449-5030 Fax: 6535-6609
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Min. Price per table to qualify for private room
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$500 (Depends if there is any festival eg. Fathers' Day)
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$700 (Depends on occasion too)
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Food Quality
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I find Yan Palace's food tastier. A well established restaurant that has been around for years.
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Food is "so so".. Nothing attracts me to make it my
first choice if I am planning for gathering.
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Food Quantity
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They are really generous in their food portion. Even for
expensive ingredient such as sharks fin. At the end of the meal, you can be
assured that your guests' stomach are filled.
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Food portion is not as generous. Especially they charge more as compared to Yan Palace on the same date. (Yan Palace was fully booked)
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KTV facility
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There are 2 televisions in every room, so there's no need to
turn around to look at the screen
Inserting songs are not as friendly as there's no way to choose by han yu pin
yin. We only used "number of words", "top hits" and by singers to look for the songs we
want.
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There is only 1 television, which is placed at one extreme side
of the room. There's a need to turn around, in order to look at the screen.
Guests who are sitting further away from the screen, might have to come
closer in order to look at the lyrics.
They gave us 2 mics.. however, the on/off switch is missing from one of the
mic.
That mic gave feedback when we put it on the table.. We tried asking if they
have a spare mic, waitress told us no (despite being a pretty large establishment)... :(
There K systerm is however, more user friendly.. it allows us to search for
songs by entering the first alphabet of each word (han yu pin yin)
Software seems to have error. It auto inserts songs that we didn't choose.. very irritating as we have to skip quite a number of songs before it gets t o our song.
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Operating Hours
(Dinner)
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6:30-11pm
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6-10:30 pm
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Service
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Waitress are friendly and helpful.
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Waitress stood in our room and started packing at around 10:10pm. We felt uneasy as it sort of gave us the impression that she is hinting us to leave.
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Others
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Allows us to bring wine without purchasing any wine from them.
Not sure if this is a privilege because we booked their room, but I feel that
these little things they do, leaves good impression in their customers. =D
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Allows you to bring 3 bottles of wine if you purchase 1 bottle
of wine from them at $39.90++.
They are already charging a premium on food when the standard is "so so".. They are not service centric, but placing more emphasis on profit.
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Conclusion:
Yan Palace will always be my family's first choice for Chinese restaurant. We love the food quality, quantity and KTV facility. Yan Palace is more value for money!
