Affordably priced crowdpleasers

NEW RESTAURANT

Xi Yan Shaw

1 Scotts Road

#03-12 Shaw Centre

Tel: 6733-3476

Open daily for lunch and dinner: 11.30am to 3pm; 5.30pm to 10pm

EXCUSE me, are you a Chinese food Nazi?

You know, the kind who keeps the tills at Imperial Treasure and Crystal Jade ringing loud and the queues long; for whom wasabi or foie gras don't belong in the Cantonese culinary pantheon; who believes that those who can, do - those who can't, cross over to the dark side of fusion.

If Jacky Yu had been hauled into the dock by an imperial Chinese cooking court, he would probably have been sentenced to years of hard labour making dim sum skin or stoking the fires for the real masters to show off their wok hei skills…