At kichn, we embrace your right to choose.
Their tagline says it all - you get to choose from a selection of items, sufficient in amount, although I would have preferred greater choice of bases and sauces.
It works like this, you pick your base (carbohydrate), main (protein), and sauce. You can then add a blended drink, for $3 and up. The drink has a choice of single, double, or triple blends from quite a list of items such as lychee, to oreo, to redbull.
There's always a featured special, one as a drink ingredient, and one sauce. Today's was bandung and japanese curry, respectively.
Kichn features a cutesy way of ordering, with colour pencils and teardrops for colouring in.
We used different colours to represent different people's orders (:
Seating is al fresco, and there are only about five or six tables, each seating about four people.
Seemed cozy and nice for catching up with friends. I'm biased, I love wooden tables and benches!
The tables are sheltered and there are fans too, so fear not the weather.
Instead, embrace your right to choose (:
From top down: Pineapple ($3), Strawberry Banana Green Tea ($5), Mango Chocolate Redbull ($5) and Lychee Oreo Milo ($5) ice blends.
Sister shows her high regard for the in-house recommendation, Lychee Oreo Milo. It was YUM! I will go back for the drink. Sounds... strange at first. But please, give in to temptation, you will not regret it! The taste comes in layers, cool refreshing lychee, sweet oreo bits, and then thick milo goodness, so comforting and reminiscent of primary school days.
Milo truck, I miss you.
Otherwise, Pineapple was thirst-quenching. Redbull and chocolate drowned out mango, but still delish, while banana completely muffled strawberry and green tea. It tasted of banana and flour... like banana cake mix with water. Agh!!
Well you know what to give a miss next time (:
Then the food came.
Seafood + chilli crab gravy + spaghetti ($8.90)
They were most definitely cooking up a storm, for the food took forever to arrive. Not that I'm complaining, I appreciate it when the cooks do each order with TLC instead of mass like fast food (: However if your tummy is growling, do be prepared to wait!
And be prepared not to see different sauces, for we are boring people.
Make that, chilli crab gravy loving people.
Chicken cutlet + chilli crab gravy + spaghetti ($6.90)
Chicken chop + chilli crab gravy + spaghetti ($7.90)
I liked both the chicken chop and chicken cutlet, but if I could afford the extra calories the cutlet brings, I'd go for that. It comes with a packet of mayonnaise, and chicken cutlet + mayonnaise = heaven. Well, heaven if there were no calories to worry about!
FINALLY! Something without chilli crab gravy (:
Chicken chop + japanese curry + fusilli ($7.90)
The chicken chop was tender with juices, and the japanese curry tasted like, well, japanese curry. M said he could make it at home (:
Seaweed drumlets ($3.90), very crispy. Not very salty, which is good, and sprinkled liberally with seaweed bits. Not something I'd exclaim as fantastic though.
PS, the chilli crab gravy is certainly interesting, and yummy at first, till you realise there's some sort of gelatin or starch used to create the gooey texture. This dissolves while you're eating, and then you're eating a very watery sauce. I guess its either a eat fast or don't mind watery sauce after awhile mindset if you choose the chilli crab gravy.
Would I return to satisfy my gastronomical tantrums?
MOST definitely, for the Lychee Oreo Milo ice blend. The food was average only, but I wouldn't mind returning to try other sauces, the price is decent after all. I do wish they had linguine though!
Oh, and the takeaway boxes are so cute (:
Kichn
180 Albert Street
#01-05, Albert Court
http://www.kichn.com/
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