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Peking duck carved into glossy slices, served with warm pancakes in a bamboo steamer, cucumber, spring onion and sweet bean sauce at Yu by Sijie
Our signaturePeking duck

Yu by Sijie

Our Peking duck — lacquered to a deep amber, carved, and served with warm pancakes — leads a Chinese fine-dining menu on South Rampart Boulevard.

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The signature

The Peking duck is the reason to book the table

A whole duck, roasted until the skin sets into a deep amber lacquer, then carved and brought out with everything it needs around it.

It is the dish the kitchen is built around, and the one we would put in front of you first. The skin is the point — glossy, even, and cut so that every slice carries it.

Around the platter sits the rest of the service: warm pancakes in the steamer, the garnishes cut fine, and a row of one-bite canapés to open with.

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Peking duck sliced onto a white platter beside a steamer of warm pancakes, cucumber, spring onion and dipping sauces
The full duck service, as it reaches the table
  • The duckCarved into glossy, even slices and set out on the plate
  • Served withWarm pancakes, brought to the table in the bamboo steamer
  • The garnishJulienned cucumber and spring onion, toasted sesame, sweet bean sauce
  • To openOne-bite duck canapés, each finished with caviar

On film

Yu by Sijie, on film

A short film from our own channel, on Chinese fine dining and the signature Peking duck in Las Vegas.

The film begins muted on its own. Use the player controls to turn on sound, pause it, or watch full screen.

The philosophy

The character 御 means what is set before the emperor

In classical Chinese, 御 (yù) describes what was prepared for the imperial table — cooked with the highest standard of care that a kitchen could offer.

Yu by Sijie takes that idea as a measure rather than a decoration. The kitchen works the way a fine-dining room is supposed to work: precise control of heat, ingredients chosen for the season, and plates composed so they earn a second look before the first bite.

The result is Chinese cooking presented with the discipline and quiet of a formal dining room — familiar flavours, held to an exacting standard.

Steamed buns finished with spring onion and black sesame, presented in a handled bamboo carrier beside a dragon-painted teapot on a gold-inlaid lacquer table

From the kitchen

Composed plate by plate

A selection of work from our kitchen — seafood cooked to the second, slow-built broths, and the precise knife work that Chinese banquet cooking is built on.

Whole crab in a fragrant chili and sweet pepper sauce
Crab, chili and sweet pepper
Steamed fish fillets in a chopped chili sauce, served on a red rimmed plate
Steamed fish, chopped chili
Fish fillets in a clear peppery broth served in a blue and white pot
Fish in a clear pepper broth
Golden crisp-wrapped morsels arranged on a long white plate
Golden crisp, long plate
Aromatic sauce being poured over a cold platter of sliced meat and cucumber
Cold platter, sauce poured to order
Glazed ribs set over a nest of crisp rice noodles
Glazed ribs on crisp noodle
Beef cubes served on hot stones with flames rising behind the plate
Beef, seared at the table on hot stone
Noodles lifted from a wooden bucket beside a plate of sliced fish
Noodles, cooked to order
Translucent crystal shrimp dumplings in a bamboo steamer
Crystal shrimp dumplings, steamed to order

Dishes shown are from our kitchen's portfolio. The full menu, along with pricing, will be published here shortly.

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The lineage

Thirty years, and a name built in Northern California

Sijie — known to her guests as Amy — has spent thirty years in restaurants.

In Northern California she built Special Noodle into a recognised name, and later carried it to Austin and to Las Vegas. Each opening taught the same lesson: guests return for consistency, and consistency is a discipline.

Yu is her next step. Where Special Noodle is a bowl you come back to every week, Yu is the room you book for the evening that matters.

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A Special Noodle bowl with braised beef, greens and a soft egg

The room

Look for the green and gold sign

Yu sits behind an arched limestone entrance at Suite 190, on South Rampart Boulevard in Las Vegas.

The entrance to Yu by Sijie — an arched limestone doorway beneath the green and gold restaurant sign
The entrance to Yu by Sijie at 400 South Rampart Boulevard, Suite 190.

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