[CLOSED] ChiChi

A seasonal menu item for an 'Ox-cellent' reunion, these mini burgs were stuffed with chicken, prawn and rice cakes; and had thick slices of lotus root used as "bread buns". Interesting concept as it was light in comparison to burger sliders, but it tasted a tad dry and could do with more depth in its flavour.

The short ribs were fork tender that they ripped apart effortlessly and the chunks of beef tendons were delicious and packed full of flavour (and collagen) with the sweet-savoury sauce.

A chef recommendation was this bowl of fried rice made with Japanese rice tossed in sugar peas, egg and a special in-house made XO sauce; and topped with lumps of blue swimmer crab and a generous serving of tobiko. I felt that the rice had a wok hey flavour to it, and the crab meat was sweet that contrasted well with the salty tobiko to give the dish a nice balance.

blue swimmer crabmeat, japanese rice, sugar peas, in-house xo sauce, tobiko

wild caught ang kar prawn 200g, shio kombu, burnt butter, garlic

🍴DINE OUT🍴
📍CHICHI, Amoy street📍
💸 Crab XO fried rice: $20
💸 Fried brown rice: $16
💸 Ang kar prawn: $26
💸 Smoked chestnut & truffle gyoza: $13
💸 Chirachi salad: $23
💸 Creme caramel: $8
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Chichi is a modern Asian Japanese restaurant that serves dishes with their own twist to it.😉 Well-known for their fried rice, their Crab XO fried rice was full of wok hey, and featured a heaping pile of crabmeat on top, super shiok!🦀 The fried brown rice was not too bad either, with loads of vegetarian fried beancurd skin on it, giving it a crunchy texture when eating with the fried rice.😮 However, we felt that the fried rice was too oily and salty for our liking, which got us reaching out for our water cups after a while.🥛 The rest of the dishes were not bad either, but did not stand out to us. Overall, the experience was a little disappointing but a really commendable effort for coming up with such interesting dishes!😊