Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck

The Verdict

Three consecutive appearances on the Opinionated About Dining Leading Restaurants in Asia list; ranked #95 in 2023, #94 in 2024, #106 in 2025; plus a Michelin Plate (2024) make Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck one of the most consistently credentialed Peking duck specialists in Singapore. At $$ per head, it delivers serious technical cooking at a price point that undercuts most of the city's fine-dining Chinese alternatives. Book it if roast duck is your primary objective and you want peer-reviewed quality without a fine-dining bill. If you want broader Cantonese cooking at a comparable price tier, consider Summer Pavilion or Peach Blossoms instead.

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Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck sits on level five of Paragon on Orchard Road, a mid-to-upscale shopping centre address that places it squarely in the tourist-and-business-lunch corridor of central Singapore. That location matters: the room operates at a volume and pace you would associate with a high-traffic urban dining room rather than a quiet special-occasion restaurant. Expect a lively, populated floor during both lunch and dinner service. The energy is confident rather than hushed, this is not the place to close a sensitive deal in quiet, but it is well-suited to a group celebration or a food-led evening where the table talk centres on what is arriving next.

The core draw is the Peking duck, a preparation that demands technical precision at every stage: the air-drying, the lacquering, the roasting temperature, the carving. Getting those variables right consistently, across hundreds of covers a week, is the benchmark that separates a credentialed duck restaurant from a generic one. Imperial Treasure's OAD ranking, sustained over three consecutive years, suggests the kitchen is delivering that consistency at scale. reinforces the picture: this is a venue with a large, repeat audience that keeps returning and keeps recommending.

The seasonal angle matters here more than it might at a European restaurant. Traditional Cantonese and Peking duck-centric kitchens rotate supplementary dishes around the Chinese calendar, which means the broader menu around the duck changes character across the year. Lunar New Year brings festive set menus and lou hei (yu sheng prosperity toss) dishes; Mid-Autumn Festival typically introduces mooncake-season specials and richer, more elaborate shared plates. If you are visiting Singapore during a major Chinese festival period, the menu you encounter will be meaningfully different from a standard weekday lunch in June. For an explorer-minded diner, timing a visit around the Lunar New Year window (late January to mid-February) or the Mid-Autumn period (September to October) gives you access to the widest, most celebratory version of the menu. Outside those windows, the everyday menu is the tighter, duck-centred proposition, which is still the reason most people book.

$$ price range positions Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck as an accessible choice by Singapore's fine-dining standards. You are not paying the $$$$ tariff of Zén or Waku Ghin, and you are not at the fast-casual end of the spectrum either. Think of it as a venue where a table of four eating well, duck course, a couple of supporting dishes, tea or a modest drinks order, lands at a price that feels proportionate to the quality on the plate. For comparable Chinese cooking value at this tier, Paradise Dynasty exists at a lower price point but with a very different format and no equivalent awards pedigree.

Booking is rated easy. Both lunch (12–3:30 pm) and dinner (6–10:30 pm) services run seven days a week, giving you genuine flexibility on timing. The Paragon address also means you can combine a visit with other Orchard Road plans without logistical complications. If your primary interest is Chinese cooking in Singapore more broadly, the city's depth is worth exploring: Peach Blossoms and Summer Pavilion represent the Cantonese fine-dining end of the spectrum at a similar or adjacent price tier.

For context on how serious Chinese cooking travels across markets, it is worth noting that OAD-listed Chinese restaurants appear in cities as varied as Berlin, San Francisco, Dubai, Seoul, and Kyoto, but Singapore's concentration of Chinese culinary talent, combined with the city-state's demanding dining public, gives venues here a particular competitive intensity. Three consecutive OAD Asia rankings is not an accident in that context.

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Ratings & Recognition

• Opinionated About Dining, Leading Restaurants in Asia: #106 (2025), #94 (2024), #95 (2023)
• Michelin Plate: 2024

Booking

Booking difficulty is rated easy. The restaurant operates two sessions daily, seven days a week, lunch runs 12–3:30 pm and dinner 6–10:30 pm. The Orchard Road location (290 Orchard Rd, #05-42/45, Paragon, Singapore 238859) is direct to reach by MRT (Orchard station) or taxi. No booking method is specified in our data; check the restaurant directly or use a third-party reservation platform.

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