For a meal to impress, with comfort food alongside luxe dishes, this is one good set menu to consider.
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There are eight dishes in the menu with one more complimentary cereal fish skin (swipe to the last photo for all of them, in their original packaging), and I'll highlight three really good dishes in the preceding paragraphs.
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The star that stole the show is a Shang Social signature - Crispy Boneless Chicken Filled with Fried Glutinous Rice, Ham and Chinese Sausage (cover photo). The chicken looked whole, but is actually deboned, then stuffed with glutinous rice that has first been wok-fried with chinese sausage, dried shrimp, dried scallops, and shiitake mushroom. The crispy skin and succulent flesh of the chicken was delicious on its own, but divine when taken together with other components - the fried kale, crispy rice puffs, and the wok-fried glutinous rice with pieces of lup cheong. This chicken is prepared entirely from scratch, by hand, and is a time-consuming dish to make. For best result, put it in the oven to heat it till skin is crisp and piping hot again from the delivery.
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Another two dishes that stood out is the Double-Boiled Chicken Soup with Cordyceps Flower. It's deep in flavour, and full of natural sweetness. The other is the Crispy Vermicelli Roll (second photo), where the crisp exterior was light and crumbles easily, and filled with king scallops.
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Other dishes include: Kurobuta Pork & Bak Kwa Xiao Long Bao; Chrysanthemum Fish Fillet with Aged Black Vinegar Dressing; and Black Truffle Prawn Dumpling in Squid Ink Skin (third photo).
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Overall a really good meal. And considering the quality of the cooking, it's really one of the better Chinese set menu options.