Jia Wei Chinese Restaurant

Jia Wei Chinese Restaurant is a Chinese restaurant on the second floor of Grand Mercure Singapore Roxy, in Roxy Square at 50 East Coast Road. It serves what it calls Nanyang cuisine: Southern Chinese recipes cooked with Southeast Asian ingredients. Dishes go in the middle of the table, and the menu is built for sharing.

Executive Chef Victor Lee runs the kitchen. He started cooking at 20, learning wok skills from his older brother. He then spent around 20 years in Asian and international kitchens. Jia Wei has since opened a second restaurant, at Noku Kyoto in Japan.

What to order

The menu marks a short list of house recommendations. The Jia Wei Peking duck comes whole or half. You can have the rest of the bird cooked a second way, either wok-fried and served with lettuce or stewed with ee-fu noodles.

Other dishes the kitchen recommends include:

• Ah Ma prawn hae chor: the fried prawn rolls known locally as hae chor.
• Kurobuta pork char siew: barbecued pork stuffed with salted egg.
• Wok-fried Boston lobster: cooked in a spicy Nanyang sauce.
• Stewed live Soon Hock fish: served with Chinese cabbage and bean curd in a claypot.
• Crispy Iberico pork collar: with a sweet and sour hawthorn sauce.
• Ocean gems vermicelli: seafood and rice noodles cooked in an opeh leaf.

There is also a double-boiled fish maw soup with sea whelk and dried scallop, and a slow-cooked US beef short rib. For dessert, try the chilled homemade coconut pudding with vanilla ice cream. A separate dim sum menu is available too.

Set menus for two or more people make ordering simple. One includes steamed Chilean black cod and har cheong chicken, or prawn paste chicken, in a soft bun.

The setting

Jia Wei sits inside the hotel, so it is an easy choice if you are staying there. Besides the main dining room, there are three private rooms. They suit family reunions and celebrations as well as quieter meals for a small group. A separate private dining menu is offered for these rooms.

Good to know before you go

• Bookings: reserve through ResDiary or Chope, both linked from the official website, or call the restaurant.
• Takeaway: you can order food to take away online through Oddle.
• Dietary needs: the menus mark vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free dishes, as well as dishes with nuts or seafood. Tell the staff about any allergies.

Getting there

Look for Roxy Square on East Coast Road; the restaurant is on Level 2. The restaurant gives Marine Parade station on the Thomson-East Coast Line as its nearest MRT stop. Use Exit 2.

Nearby

If you want to stay close by, see our page on Grand Mercure Singapore Roxy. After your meal, get gelato at Birds of Paradise Gelato Boutique, also on East Coast Road. In Joo Chiat, Kim Choo Kueh Chang sells Peranakan rice dumplings and kueh. The pastel terrace houses of Koon Seng Road are worth a look too.

Browse more Chinese and dim sum restaurants, all restaurants in Katong and Joo Chiat, or read our Katong and Joo Chiat guide.