{"id":3015,"date":"2010-08-20T05:57:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T10:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/11\/the-new-majestic-in-singapore\/"},"modified":"2010-10-27T22:37:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T03:37:47","slug":"the-new-majestic-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/20\/the-new-majestic-in-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"A Peek at the Menu at the New Majestic Restaurant in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"

I paid another visit to The New Majestic, one of the restaurants<\/a> I visited in my quest for the greatest Chinese restaurant in the world. We went there with Don and Laura, freshly married folks. When I visited in 2006, it had just opened. It continues. Lots of high-end ingredients (shark fin, abalone etc.) and modern twists — wasabi, foie gras, etc.<\/p>\n

Very pricey. But very good. Though is it 50x as good as your local hawker meal? Probably not. But different.<\/p>\n

Soft shelled crab with a creamy wasabi lime sauce + mango.<\/p>\n

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Combination of crispy wasabi prawn, peking duck and
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Pork belly plus fried mantou.<\/p>\n

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Dried chilli shrimp.<\/p>\n

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And the Chinese obsession with the number 8 continues apace on the set menu prices (as seen below). $88 per person and $688 and $1288 for tables of 10.<\/p>\n

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I paid another visit to The New Majestic, one of the restaurants I visited in my quest for the greatest Chinese restaurant in the world. We went there with Don and Laura, freshly married folks. When I visited in 2006, it had just opened. It continues. Lots of high-end ingredients (shark fin, abalone etc.) and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8,13],"tags":[181],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best","category-chinese-food","category-chinese-restaurants","tag-singapore"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-MD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3132,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions\/3132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}