Yuby Si Jie

Chinese fine dining on South Rampart Boulevard — the next chapter from the founder of Special Noodle.

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Rolled bamboo-shoot dish finished with a bamboo fan, plated at Yu by Si Jie
Now open 400 S. Rampart Blvd, Suite 190 Las Vegas, Nevada

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 Si Jie 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.

Fresh cherries arranged with dark crumb on a white porcelain plate

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
Sashimi selection presented over crushed ice with garnishes
Raw selection, over ice
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

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

Twenty years, and a name built in Northern California

Si Jie — known to her guests as Amy — has spent more than twenty 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 of hand-pulled noodles with braised beef and 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 Si Jie — an arched limestone doorway beneath the green and gold restaurant sign
The entrance to Yu by Si Jie at 400 South Rampart Boulevard, Suite 190.

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