The new Cantonese restaurant, Empress, located at the recently refurbished Asian Civilisations Museum, is dsigned by interior design firm, Takenouchi Webb (which did Potato Head Folk and the Working Capitol). As for the food, the menu's signature is the triple roast platter ($28), which is a cooked Spanish Grain-Fed Duroc pig. There's also the deep-fried tofu and salted egg yolk ($10), soups like the King Prawn Dumpling in Supreme Broth ($10) and the sweet and sour pork ($24) with aged vinegar, lychee. Desserts include the cempedak crème brûlée ($13) with dried jackfruit, and peanut-coated black sesame "Mochi" balls ($12), served with black sesame ice-cream.