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| Shou Handmade Dim Sum | 5 Kadayanallur St, #01-02/03, Singapore 069183 (KADA) 🚅 5 minutes from Maxwell station ⏰ 11am - 2:30pm |
It's conveniently located just next to Maxwell Food Centre and Maxwell MRT station. This shot was taken from Maxwell Food Centre itself - just steps away.
We went to Shou 寿 Handmade Dim Sum for lunch (at ground level of Kada).
Shou is a simply but comfortably furnished space. Contemporary, minimalist decor. Shou serves dim sum by day (and by night the same space operates as Daikoku Izakaya).
Three of us, we tried Shou's Signature Lunch Set for $21.90++ (add another $3 for three prawns).
Ten hour simmered chicken broth pao fan.
The watery soup was packed with layers of full blown umami savoury flavours which was balanced with sweetness from the rice.
The white rice were nutty tender while the savoury browned puff rice were crisp and crunchy. I like the mix of soft, tender and crisp crunchy textures.
I didn't eat the prawns as they were not shelled 🤭😬 Both kaki kaki said the prawns were nice as they were fresh.
The set came with six curated dim sum favourites.
House special spicy (mala) siew mai.
Steamed siew mai (traditional flavour).
Steamed shrimp dumpling.
I like this shrimp dumpling because the thin chewy skin was filled with two peeled succulent crunchy sweet crustaceans.
Pan fried bean curd skin shrimp roll.
Pan fried mei cai (preserved Chinese mustard) pork bun.
Baked BBQ pork bun.
Chilled honey osmanthus wolfberry jelly
Yunnan premium Yi Wu Pu'er ripe tea (100-Year-Old tea trees).
Besides the set, we also had pan fried radish cake.
Steamed pork rib with black bean sauce.
The set plus add-on came to slightly more than $40 which is quite reasonable for the location and ambiance in today's market.
I like how the vibes at Shou 寿 flowed into Kada's bright courtyard.
Natural sunlight floods from the glass roof of the three storey building. There were some retail shops upstairs but I had to take a rain check. Shall come back soon.
The beautiful building where Kada Maxwell is now located was built in the 1920s. Kada is short for Kadayanallur, the street the building is on.
In its past life, #5 Kadayanallur Street was St. Andrew's Mission Hospital for Women and Children. It had 60 beds and an outpatient clinic as well as a training centre for nurses.
Designed by Swan & Maclaren, the same architects behind Raffles Hotel and Tanjong Pagar Railway Station, little wonder then that the building is so beautiful.
Kada Maxwell has this rare operational lift with manually collapsible iron gate. In the past, it transported patients to the rooftop for sunshine and fresh air. So amazing that we are still able to use such a vintage lift today.
Source credit: Singapore Land Authority
Restaurant name: Shou Handmade Dim Sum
Address: 5 Kadayanallur St, #01-02/03, Singapore 069183 (KADA)
Nearest MRT: 5 minutes from Maxwell station
Hours: 11am - 2:30pm
Written by Tony Boey on 23 Jul 2025
Who is Tony Johor Kaki?
i am surprised youdont eat shelled prawns. use hands cannot ah ?
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