Chinese gem in Geneva
Visiting lovely friends back from Singapore times at their new home in Geneva and starting quite the food crawl over the four short days we spend with them.
One of my favorite places, that we’ve visited was ‘Xiang Yu’, a Chinese restaurant, they had not yet tried themselves.
We were welcomed warmly and brought to our table, swiftly everything was setup and our order was taken at once.
We ended up overordering a lil – this shall become a pattern during the course of this weekend – and almost every dish had some punch to it, Sichuan-style.
Exceptions were our selected sets of dumplings – ‘Xiao Long Bao’, ‘Jiaozi’ and ‘Har Gow’ – which we actually reordered three times.
I especially appreciated the soupy xlb, they were absolutely delicious altogether, skin, soup and filling. The jiaozi were nicely spiced and even the har gow, which I normally don’t fancy too much, head a pleasant consistency.
Smashed garlicky cucumber salad to mislead my tastebuds just nicely before and in-between the more tingling and numbing dishes, like the Sichuan fried chicken and mapo tofu, as well as the more tame mala mian and that almost glazed, spicy-sweetish eggplant dish.
All in, this was a wonderful lunch – J’s birthday lunch in fact – with just well done dishes, prepared in ways I haven’t experienced in a very long time. Geneva is quite the drive but ‘Xiang Yu’ just adds to the pros side of taking it.
Get Your Grub On!
Restaurant Xiang Yu 湘遇
Rue du Fribourg 16
1201 Genève
Switzerland
On our way back from 
I had an iced black moon cold brew coffee and M. got herself a huge chai milk tea. I can’t speak for the tea but I loved the cold brew with its chocolaty notes and a sucker punch of caffeine. Even though the coffee is Berlin branded I would have assumed that a place like this would make their own coffee specialties, including cold brew and such but who am I to judge their make or buy decisions.
Get Your Grub On! 