(PARTIALLY SPONSORED) Mondays are miserable enough as it is, so why not dispel some of the blues by making it a Meaty Monday at @yupavilionsg? Hidden on the third floor of the perpetually dead Kovan Heartland Mall is Yu Pavilion, a snazzy little Chinese restaurant. I won’t lie, my expectations were very modest, but Yu Pavilion managed to thoroughly impress me & my dad.⠀

We got the Hotplate Venison Meat ($23.80++) in ginger & spring onion sauce instead of black pepper, and it was downright delicious, albeit a tad too salty after a while. Unlike many other places that overdo it with the meat tenderiser when it comes to game like venison, Yu Pavilion tenderises it just enough to avoid excessive chewing but retain the satisfaction of biting into meat. The spring onions & ginger added an ambrosial aroma to the proceedings, and the sizzling hotplate elicited even stronger aromatics from them.⠀

The meaty selections from Yu Pavilion were a strong start to our dinner, and I’m glad it continued being superb all throughout. Thanks for the invite, @yupavilionsg, and thanks for setting it up @scalemicroinfluencers!