Chao Qian Seafood & BBQ Restaurant now has a 2nd new outlet at Foch Road offering Singaporean an Unique JiangHu cuisine from ChongQing and Hunan cuisines. In this outlet, they have their signature live seafood tanks, bbq seafood and meats, chef stir fried Chinese cuisines, grilled fish and various mains.
Chao Qian Seafood & BBQ Restaurant new outlet is near Jalan Besar. This new outlet is an airy 2 storey Chinese Courtyard house with double volume space. The design is inspired by Siheyuan 四合院 surrounded by walls creating a cosy courtyard living space where you can dine in comfort with up to 26 people at one go. There are also festive wall posters with much food for thoughts.
At the entrance of Chao Qian, you can see their amazing live seafood tanks with various seafood from the most expensive seafood to the most affordable seafood you eat on a daily basis. They offer premium live seafood such as King crab, abalone, Dungeness crab, Soon hock fish, grouper fish and lobsters. You can also try other live seafood like eel, mantis prawns, bamboo clams, razor clams, lala, gong gong, flower crabs and so much more.
You can enjoy some live seafood with clear individual price instead of by weight in most seafood restaurant. For example, their live grouper is $68 each fish and soon hock is $88 each fish. You can pick and choose your own live seafood with the help of the staff. Chao Qian Seafood & BBQ Restaurant is popular for steamed dragon tiger grouper ($68) and steam mantis shrimps ($36).
This is a perfect spot for supper around Jalan Besar till 4am. Enjoy a variety of Sichuan, JiangHu and Hunan cuisines by seasoned chefs. JiangHu means rivers and lakes and also refers to the society where wuxia who are skilled in martial arts are found. JiangHu cuisines are known for their spicy flavours and savoury dishes and eaten by fisherman to expel the dampness in their body.
Here’s Chao Qian Seafood & BBQ Restaurant review as we check out the 10 popular dishes of JiangHu cuisines and Hunan cuisines in Singapore. Our editor pick is the shanye xiangcai Hunan cuisine – Steamed Fresh Fish Fillet with Chopped Pepper.
Steamed Fresh Fish Fillet with Chopped Pepper ($26) is a steamed fish dish topped with savoury sweet and mildly tangy chopped pepper. The base is steamed sweet Chinese cabbage topped with silky Snakehead fish fillet.
The freshly steamed fish is then topped with chopped pepper and drizzled with hot oil to release the flavours. The fish fillet is coated with a red chilli pepper and the golden crimson hue sauce pairs well with the soft Chinese cabbage under it. Despite the red pepper, the dish is more towards a savoury, sweet and fruitty profile than spicy profile.
Stir Fried Eels with peppers ($32) are poached eels stir fried with a luxurious amount of peppercorns, red chilli pepper and ginger. The eel is coated with a spicy savoury sauce with a chewy gelatinous skin and tender eel meat. The eel has fine bones that add a crunch to it when eaten. This dish is made with live eels that they have in their seafood tanks. This is one of their signature Jianghu Cuisine which is believed to be “stamina food” for male to spice things up.
Garlic Crayfish($36) with soft sweet savoury garlicky gravy that you can almost slurp together with the sweet garlicky crayfish meat. The crayfish are clean and split down the spine for ease of consumption. You just need to peel back the shells and dip it in the soft melty garlic sauce.
You can even get Singaporean’s favourite Hunan Stir-fry Pork ($16) that is served on a warmer. The pork are tender with peppery flavours from the green spiral chilli. The chilli and the stir fried pork are both the mains in this dish, you can enjoy the juicy pork coated with a caramelised soy flavours with the refreshing punch from the fresh green chilli peppers.
Here’s Chao Qian Seafood & BBQ Restaurant menu with a good selection of JiangHu cuisines and Hunan cuisines.
We also found Dough drop soup in seafood broth ($22) (Mian Ge Da).This is a soupy dish with silky translucent dough shaped like mini pillows. It is simmered in a seafood broth with chunks of squid, shrimps, laces of egg and sweet grassy chives. This is a comforting dish you can have late night that is lighter and without spicy flavours. This is a rare Chinese dish to find in Singapore, if you never try this before, do try it as carbs for a change.
Stir-Fried Fried Egg with Vinegar ($12.80) is a bowl of fried eggs stacked like pancakes with molten yolks. The eggs are doused in a savoury soya sauce with a mild tang from the vinegar and nice aroma of scallion oil. Egg is moist and soft best enjoyed atop a bowl of steamed rice with the savoury soy sauce and lava like sweet sticky egg yolk mixed into the rice.
They also have bbq grilled meats, seafood and various offals. They have giant squid, oyster, scallop, shishamo and prawn skewers. They even have various offals and exotic offals such as lamb whip for man. Meats bbq skewers starts from $1 each.
They also have 5 private rooms that can host up to 48 people at one time on their second storey. The rooms are spacious and some rooms have ensuite karaoke facilities. Their smaller rooms have a minimum spend of $300. These are great rooms for large groups and families to gather and have some private dining together.
They also have other signature dishes such as Coriander beef, Stir-fried pickled radish with tripe, mutton soup with meat or mixed offal, Sichuan Peppercorn Chicken and so much more. If you are looking for a supper place in Jalan Besar for live seafood, Hunan cuisines, stir-fried JiangHu cuisines or simply bbq skewers, do head over to the newest Chao Qian Seafood and BBQ restaurant at Foch Road today.
CHAO QIAN SEAFOOD & BBQ RESTAURANT address:
Hao Nam Building, unit 01-02 (near Jalan Besar)
27 Foch Rd, Singapore 209264
For enquires & reservation, please call: 8866 2227
Opening hours: 11.30am to 4 am daily
Other outlet:
SAFRA Punggol, 02-05
For enquiries, please call: 6513 0600
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