Went to Chin Chin in a group of five on a weeknight. We got there a bit after 6pm, and there was a line out the door but we didn’t have to wait for seats as we got one of the last remaining tables downstairs. I think we were lucky as there was a long line outside when we left. It’s a good sized restaurant with two floors.
We decided to do a fixed price family style menu. There are two of these on the menu - Feed Me #1 (“The Classics”) (A$69.5pp) - and Feed Me #2 (“Chef’s Banquet”) (A$88pp). We asked our server what the differences were. He explained that the Feed Me #2 menu had some dishes with more premium ingredients, and that for first timers we should probably get the Feed Me #1 option, which is what we did.
Here’s what I think was on that menu from looking at the descriptions:
Corn Fritters w. Lettuce Cups
Shiso & Sweet & Sour Chilli Sauce
You wrap the fritters in the lettuce and apply sauce.
Kingfish Sashimi
Lime, Chilli, Coconut & Thai Basil
Tangy sour spicy citrus marinade. Strong flavors. Fish tasted a bit like hamachi. Quite good.
Chin Chin Pork “Roll Ups”
Slow Cooked Pulled Pork, Pancakes, Slaw & Plum Sauce
Kind of like Peking duck with the pancakes but with pulled pork.
Barramundi and Crispy Pork Salad
Apple & Peanuts
Interesting mix of fish and pork, with crunchy apples and peanuts in the salad. The meat was coated in kind of a Vietnamese style caramel sauce.
Stir Fry Prawn
Egg Noodle, Garlic Chive
& Hell Fire Chilli Oil
I think this was my favorite dish of the night. Nicely textured noodles and perfectly cooked prawn chunks, with a dollop of spicy chili sauce.
Twice Cooked Beef Short Rib
Shaved Coconut Salad and Prik Nahm Pla
A single large short rib, covered with a sweetish glaze.
Stir Fried Green Beans & Shredded
Coconut, Burnt Chilli & Cashew Sambal
This was fine.
Chargrilled Broccolini
Black Bean & Sambal Delek
Broccolini with a spicy salty black bean sauce.
BBQ King Salmon
in Banana Leaf, Coconut Red Curry
I liked this a lot. Nicely cooked salmon with a bit of smokiness and spices from the red curry. Drizzled with a bit of coconut milk.
At this point our server asked if we were still hungry. We said yes of course.
Green Curry?
I’m not sure what this was on the menu - it was a green Thai style curry with chicken and Thai eggplants. Very good, nice heat and spice.
Next came some desserts to share.
Vietnamese Iced Coffee Panna Cotta
w. cashew praline
Very nice, really tasted of coffee with condensed milk.
Palm Sugar Ice Cream Sundae
Salted Honeycomb & Lime Syrup
&
Coconut Sago
Sweetcorn Ice Cream, Praline & Puffed rice
Menus
Very good meal, lots of dishes and the family style menu was pretty reasonably priced (1 AUD is about 0.75 USD). Standouts for me were the stir fry prawn with egg noodle, the green curry, kingfish sashimi, and the salmon in banana leaf.
