Chao Qian Seafood & BBQ restaurant is serving up Singapore first braised lamb head with live seafood, Sichuan, Dongbei Northeastern Chinese bbq food and Singapore style zi char.
If you have never tried braised lamb head before, here is your chance to try one at Chao Qian Seafood & BBQ restaurant in Singapore. This piping hot whole lamb head is braised to order daily and served with sides such as sweet red onions, raw garlic cloves, a mug of their house made sweet & spicy garlic sauce and grounded dried chilli spices for dipping on a wooden platter.
Chao Qian Seafood & BBQ restaurant also has a live seafood market with various live seafoods housed in separate oceanic hue water tanks. Usually for conventional live seafood restaurant, the prices of seafood are seasonal and unknown at the point of ordering. At Chao Qian, you get to pick and choose your seafood with clear individual price tag. For example, a family size large grouper was price tagged at $69.80 during our visit and a platter of several mantis prawn are at $38.80. There are various seafood such as live crawfish, live flower crab, live prawns, live frogs and more to choose from.
Chao Qian Seafood & BBQ restaurant also has some authentic charcoal bbq seafood, meat, offals and greens. Grilled meat skewers starts from $1 for SAFRA members or Chao Qian members. They have a BBQ chef manning a 3 meter long BBQ grill powered with pebble shaped red hot charcoal. If you are there, be sure to try their popular bbq skewers.
For the cooked cuisines, the seasoned chefs are specialized in Singapore style zichar, Sichuan and Northeastern Chinese Dongbei cuisines. You can hear them cooking up a storm for every food ordered, the angry hissing woks and fiery fumes of culinary goodness brewing through their kitchen window.
Enjoy all these at Chao Qian Seafood & BBQ restaurant located within SAFRA Punggol Singapore. If you are looking for where to eat in Punggol, do head over to this newly open food place set among lush greenery with an amazing views and nature sounds beckoning in the background. When night falls, this outdoor space transform into a magical dine with nature experience with the rustling of the lush greens and gentle night breeze under a train of fairy lights.
Besides the al fresco outdoor dining, they also have air conditioned indoor main hall dining with intricate interiors and mid height portioned seating booths. This is where the live seafood fish tanks are housed with a dreamy and beautiful display of swimming seafoods against a bluish oceanic themed backlit cascading tanks.
There are several large dining karaoke private rooms that can house up to 15 pax at one time. For private rooms, there is a minimum spend of $500 to book and subjected to availability. To heighten the experience of getting a private room to your party, they can also customise messages or names on the led display atop each door to the private room. You can sing to your hearts delight with popular songs from their up to date song selection on a large TV at no additional cost. You can now dine and sing at the same time in this restaurant! If you are looking for a place for large gathering, do try this restaurant.
Here’s Chao Qian Seafood & BBQ restaurant review after trying some of their Signature dishes and cuisines. Pictured above is one of the must try dishes – a whole braised lamb head ($42 SAFRA member price/ Chao Qian Member price). This is also Singapore first braised lamb head served in a restaurant, prepared using traditional methods and ingredients. They provide table service to dispatch the braised lamb head into its several components to make it a breeze to enjoy. It is also during this dispatch table service, the waitress who dispatches the various offals from the lamb head, will recite auspicious well wishes with a festive cheer that heightens the experience of eating a whole braised lamb head.
Being able to enjoy these braised sheep head in Singapore is a very rare opportunity as it is hard to get whole lamb head. These lamb head are cooked to order fresh daily in a traditional pressure cooker with their secret sachet of spices and herbals to enhance the flavour and aroma of the lamb head. The lamb head has various offals such as lamb eye, tongue, ear and very tender lamb cheek meat. The skin is well braised with no gamey taste at all.
The collagen rich melty skin pairs well with the sweet and spicy garlic sauce provided. When the lamb head is stripped to the bones, get the waitress to assist with retrieving the lamb brain within. Enjoy the last offal served on a separate dish – buttery soft lamb brain – drizzled with garlicky sauce. If you love wraps, get their handmade popiah skin (from $1.50) and enjoy the lamb parts with fresh garlic, sweet onions in a wrap.
We also tried their signature lamb offal soup in claypot (member price $15.80). Since they are well versed with lamb cuisines, this dish did not disappoint. The offals are finely cut into strips and served piping hot in a claypot. There are fresh coriander and chilli oil, to add to the soup for more aroma and for dipping the offals respectively. The soup feels nourishing and comforting with mix tender offals and a mild hint of pepper.
Live grouper steamed in Hong Kong style ($69.80 member price) is a large family size grouper that is the length of my forearm. The fish is definitely fresh and steamed to perfection. Meat is tender, moist and meaty with a mildly springy skin. Drizzle some of the superior soy sauce with scallion aroma over the fish meat for the perfect bite. This is a must order dish for family gathering.
They housed a 3 meter long charcoal bbq grill stove within their kitchen, as their skewers are part of their signature BBQ food that is popular with the diners. There are various charcoal bbq seafood, barbecue meat skewers, offals and greens you can choose from in the menu. These are all barbecued for you by their chef and served on a hotplate stove to keep them hot while you enjoy them over a cold glass of beer. You can also find some authentic Chinese style bbq grilled leeks with bbq chilli seasoning and grilled whole egg plant topped with generous amount of garlic bbq sauce here. Their bbq meat skewer starts from an affordable price of $1 each for members.
Live mantis prawns ($38.80 member price) baked with salt and pepper. These prawns have lobster like meat texture with a briny punch and are very addictive with a dry salt and pepper seasoning.
Enjoy various Sichuan, Dongbei Northeastern cuisines and Singapore style zi char food. We tried their salted egg lobster ($88 member price) with chunky meats and a rich grainy salted egg crust, which we enjoy.
Red braised pork belly with tea ($26.80 member price) are delightful meat jello where every bite is infused with floral aroma of tea and mildly melt in mouth textures glazed with a sweet savoury sauce.
Fried pork in scoop ($21.80 member price) is a famous Northeastern Dongbei cuisine. These sweet and sour pork are encased in a thin crisp crust and a fun sauce with a stringy pull when eaten hot.
Singapore style wok stir fried lala ($21.80 member price) in ginger & green onion. Enjoy these umami & juicy clams with a springy texture in a savoury onion and gingery sauce.
Sichuan spicy chicken with hot pepper ($19.90 member price) is always good, satisfying bites of saline, spicy diced chicken with crunchy nuts and occasional surprises of numbing peppercorns.
Head over to Chao Qian Seafood & BBQ restaurant today to enjoy this sumptuous live seafood feast, bbq skewers, lamb feast, Sichuan, Dongbei Northeastern Chinese Cuisines and Singapore style zichar dishes. Gulp down all these with various bottled and freshly piped draft beers with perfect beer head ratio. There is something for everyone here nested in this natural lush green landscape at SAFRA Punggol Singapore. If you are looking for a late night supper spot in Singapore with nice natural ambience and chill vibes, do head over to Chao Qian Seafood & BBQ restaurant open till 2 am on weekdays and extended hours over the weekends till 3am.
Address of Chao Qian Seafood & BBQ Restaurant:
SAFRA Punggol, #02-05,
9 Sentul Cres, Singapore 828654
Opening Hours:
Monday to Thursday – 11.30am – 2am
Friday to Sunday – 11.30am – 3 am
For reservations & enquires, pls call: 6513 0600 / 8039 0111
Only GST applies, No service charge.
Special discounted price for SAFRA members or Chao Qian’s Members.
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