Xin Cuisine Chinese Restaurant

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Holiday Inn Atrium Singapore, 317 Outram Road, Tel: 6731-7173 Open: Noon to 3pm, 6.30 to 11pm

The crackling on the pig here is perfect: crispy and fragrant and yet not fatty.

Whether you eat it the popular way – dipped in hoisin sauce and wrapped with a flour crepe with a sprig of spring onion – or just plain on its own, it tastes wonderful.

The size of the $120 pig is just nice too, yielding enough crackling to serve a table of 10 persons.

The waitress usually removes the rest of the piglet after you finish off the crispy skin off its back. But there is often a lot of meat left on it, especially around the shoulders.

You can request to have it chopped up. But my friends and I would just ask for a knife and hack it up ourselves.

It’s more fun, and you slice off the chunks of meat from whichever part of the pig you like.

It takes about 45 minutes to prepare the dish. So it’s best to order it when you call up for a reservation if you do not want to wait.