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Jin’s Grilled Meat Pie

Quick and crunchy snacking for all ages.

The dining room at Jin’s Grilled Meat Pie.
1 / 6The dining room at Jin’s Grilled Meat Pie.Jennifer Soo
Prawn, chicken and corn shumai.
2 / 6Prawn, chicken and corn shumai.Jennifer Soo
Jin’s spicy grilled meat pies.
3 / 6Jin’s spicy grilled meat pies.Jennifer Soo
Wonton soup with seaweed and tiny dried shrimp.
4 / 6Wonton soup with seaweed and tiny dried shrimp.Jennifer Soo
Inside the spotless dining room.
5 / 6Inside the spotless dining room.Jennifer Soo
Spicy potato noodle casserole.
6 / 6Spicy potato noodle casserole.Jennifer Soo

Critics' Pick

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We love this bright-lit, high-ceilinged restaurant, opened by wife and husband Stacey Jin and David Zheng in 2022. Each batch of Jin’s pies, based on a similar snack from eastern China’s Zhejiang province, is cooked in a tandoor-style oven so the meat is tightly sealed to retain its fresh-minced pork juices.

The spicy version pulses with a creeping heat from chilli oil, and the pastry is so thin and crisp you could drum a beat on its surface. Rat-a-tat-tat-crunch.

Besides the sesame-spangled three-bite signature, there’s a clay-pot potato noodle casserole crammed with pressed tofu and a lucky dip of quail eggs, crab stick, brisket and ham; chubby prawn siu mai; pillowy cloud-white pork buns; and wonton soup teeming with wrinkled dumplings, seaweed and tiny dried shrimp.Soothing stuff indeed. Move over, Harry’s Cafe de Wheels – there’s a new pie king in town.

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