Imperial Herbal Restaurant 
From Singapore Hotels & Singapore Lifestyle
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Imperial Herbal Restaurant is one of Singapore's most unusual restaurants which specialises in healthy, unique and tasty Chinese Cuisine. Savour the best of Chinese Cuisine that will linger in your memory and tastebuds. At Imperial Herbal, the traditional Chinese health concept has been incorporated into a unique dining experience where the secrets of herbal medicine are blended with the culinary skills of master chefs to provide healthy gourmet dishes.
First conceptualized by Mrs Wang-Lee Tee Eng, the Managing Director, Imperial Herbal Restaurant opened in 1988 at Metropole Hotel. This is an interesting place to have your meal as all the food here is supposed to have been chosen because of their health properties. You even get free consultation by in-house Chinese Physicians or herbal doctors, who can give you a health diagnosis before dinner, and subsequently recommend the type of food that you should order to balance your Yin and Yang.
All the dishes at the restaurant are reputed to have curative properties or at the very least, healthy. The Chinese believe in holistic medicine and food thus plays an important part. The Double Boiled Soups here are a good way to start, with ingredients such as black chicken, lingzhi and animal penises. The restaurant claims to have 130 specialities.
Some of the concoctions will sound much more appetising than others - double-boiled crocodile soup with dried worms, anyone? Try the stewed duck, baked chicken with multiple herbs or, if you're feeling adventurous, the black ants on shredded potato, drunken scorpions and the medicinal wine made from ginseng, deer, seahorse and cordyceps. This place is worth going to with a group, since individual dishes can be pricey. A qi-balancing with your Yin and Yang dinner for two can cost up to S$150.
After 19 years, Imperial Herbal Restaurant now moved to a much bigger premises at VivoCity where you can enjoy the sweeping seaview fronting Sentosa while you dine.
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Visitors' Information
- Cuisine: Chinese Cuisine
- Ambience: Traditional
- Food features: Vegetarian option
- Payment Options: All major credit cards
VivoCity
- Phone: (+65) 6337 0491
- Address: #03-08 VivoCity, Singapore
- Nearest MRT: HarbourFront MRT Station
Metropole Hotel
- Phone: (+65) 6337 0491
- Opening Hours: 11.30am to 2.30pm; 6.30pm to 10.30pm
- Address: 3rd floor, Metropole Hotel, 41 Seah Street, Singapore
- Rates: mains from S$20
- Nearest MRT: City Hall MRT Station
- Getting There: From City Hall MRT Station, walk towards Raffles Hotel. Seah Street is just next to the hotel.
