Twin Star Dim Sum

[Yishun, Singapore 🇸🇬]

Siu Mai 传统烧卖 (S$3.90)
Deep Fried Taro Dumpling (S$3.90) - the crust was quite hard
Century Egg & Pork Porridge 皮蛋瘦肉瘦粥 (S$3.60)

Twin Star Dim Sun
Address 🛖 : Blk 732 Yishun Avenue 5, # 01-380, Singapore 🇸🇬 760 732
MRT 🚇 : Yishun (NS13) North South Line

Some items already sold out but I did try majority of it.
I prefer the steam more than fried items, the dim sum are fresh, with quite generous fillings.
The downside is the queue move very slow, so customer need to queue to place an order and wait again to collect the food.
💰$21.3 for all (average $3.2-$3.8).
📍Twin Star Dim Sum.
732 Yishun ave 5.

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Came across some posts via social media about Twin Star Dim Sum — one of the new additions to the TST Coffeeshop located at Blk 732 Yishun Avenue 5. The coffeeshop has seen quite a number of new tenants sprouting up during the year — this includes fried rice specialty stall FireRice (perhaps best known for their rendition of the Din Tai Fung-style Fried Rice) as well as Legend Scissors Cut Curry Rice which serves up Hainanese-style curry rice, and Old World Bak Kut Teh Fried Porridge. Located just right beside Legend Scissors Cut Curry Rice, Twin Star Dim Sum takes over a stall which was left vacant by a halal-certified operator — the stall is pretty attention-grabbing with its bright yellow signage and photos of its various dim sum offerings being displayed on the signboard, with wordings that suggest their dim sum to be hand made here. Being an establishment that serves up Hong Kong-style Dim Sum, expect a decent variety of steamed and fried dim sum to be listed on the menu at Twin Star Dim Sum; there is also a lone porridge dish on the menu as well — this would be the Century Egg & Pork Porridge, while there are also a variety of steamed rice rolls (i.e. Chee Cheong Fun) being offered as well.

Amongst the items that we have had during our visit to Twin Star Dim Sum, we would say that the BBQ Pork Bun was easily the most impressive item that we have had which we found to be pretty memorable as well. There really aren’t much selection for Pau items at Twin Star Dim Sum — the other only bun item being served up at Twin Star Dim Sum apart from the BBQ Pork Bun would be the Runny Custard Bun; their variant of the molten salted egg lava bun. Much like most dim sum establishments out there, the BBQ Pork Bun came in a serving of three buns per order. On first look, we liked how the buns already came with that distinctive “laughing mouth” look (开口笑) — this being the description of how the bun comes with a subtle opening that reveals the fillings inside. Taking a bite into the BBQ Pork Bun, the bun itself is soft, fluffy and pillowy — we liked how the bun carried a very light hint of sweetness that runs at the back of the tongue. Inside, we really loved how the Char Siew filling came quite a good amount of honey barbecue sauce to prevent the entire bun from being too dry; the sauce itself leaning to the sweeter side of things here but still provides a good balance with the inherent savouriness nonetheless. The meat itself was diced to pretty finely here — carries sufficient bite whilst being more on the leaner side without any undesirable porky stench; all that whilst not being distinctively chunky and hence had a consistent texture which made it easy to have. Perhaps one of our favourite BBQ Pork Bun in recent times especially in terms of ratio of bun and fillings and the filling itself.

Having tried several items from Twin Star Dim Sum such as the Steamed Rice Roll with Youtiao, Prawn Siu Mai, Red Bean Sesame Ball, and the Pan-Fried Pumpkin and Yam Cake, we did find that the various dim sum items at Twin Star Dim Sum to come with a decent quality. Some items are stronger than others — we would say that we enjoyed the BBQ Pork Bun, Red Bean Sesame Ball and Pan-Fried Pumpkin and Yam Cake a little bit more than the Steamed Rice Roll with Youtiao and the Prawn Siu Mai, and calling their dim sum “hotel-grade” would be a little over the top. That being said, we do feel that Twin Star Dim Sum does deserve some credit for being an establishment that prepares their dim sum fresh daily by hand — still is a feat for them to achieve such quality nonetheless. Prices of all of the dim sum items are also especially reasonable — with all of items listed between the range of $3.20 to $4.20 per serving (the only item priced at $4.20 being the Prawn Siu Mai; the next most expensive items being priced at $3.80), Twin Star Dim Sum does keep their fare pretty wallet-friendly for the coffeeshop-going masses well. With so many dim sum establishments sprouting up of the late, we wouldn’t necessarily say that Twin Star Dim Sum is an absolute must-visit stall to check out; that being said, the BBQ Pork bun is most certainly noteworthy enough for one to give them a try if one so happens to be in the neighbourhood.