Yesterday night I was invited to the soon to open Tai Chi restaurant located near the Sheikh Resort before Palms Club on the Gulf Road. At the moment you can only be invited to the restaurant because the place isn’t yet 100% complete and the staff is still in training, but from what I experienced the place is going to turn out great.
Tai Chi is a Tai and Chinese food restaurant. The interior of the place is very minimalistic with just enough design elements hinting out the cuisines place of origin. The restaurant is two floors but I only managed to see the first since thats where we were seated.
The food was definitely the highlight of the evening. They had a large variety of appetizers and I ended up going for something I can’t pronounce but was basically prawns on toast with some kind of sweet cucumber dip while Nat went for the saute chicken. Both dishes were delicious. The prawns on toast was very light and sweet unlike the Peacock restaurant version which feels heavier and more filling. The saute chicken was also very tasty and it came with this slightly spicy sauce which gave the dish its edge. For the main course I was planning on having my usual sweet & sour prawns but decided to try something new and went with the corn prawns with a side dish of steamed rice. The corn prawns is a combination of prawns, curry leaves and corn flakes! I was really looking forward to the meal because I never had a main dish which involved corn flakes before. As I was hoping, the corn prawns turned out to be very good. Nat also enjoyed her main course which was some kind of weird looking noodles. For desert they only had two options and we decided to go with the fried bananas with ice cream which turned out to be good but nothing special.
Overall it was a very good experience, the service was very friendly, the food was really good and the setting with their stylish plates and chilled out interior was very cool. I didn’t mention anything about the prices because there were none on the menu, the restaurant is still not finished and they only had a Microsoft Word typed menu. I don’t think they have the prices set but I believe they should be cheaper then Peacock. The place is definitely worth checking out once it opens.
5 replies on “Tai Chi Restaurant”
Hey Mark, Next time you decide to have Thai food….try a dish called Penang (its either beef or chicken) with steamed rice, it comes marinated in a peanut-coconut-curry sauce….its really tasty…I loved it in Hilton’s Blue elephant
Cheers
I adore Chinese food, I don’t know about Tai. And I must agree with you that fried shrimps on toast are soooo tasty, yummie.
There’s a nice thai resturant behind muthana called siam gardens, I’m almost a regular there but don’t know what happened to them. they closed like a week before before ramthan ‘for renovation’ and they’re still closed.
I suggest you try that chicken soup, can’t remember the name, but they mix it with watery juice of conconuts. DELICOUIS!
Mark, did you by any chance snap a shot of their logo? I suspect it’s the same asian restuant I was pitching for a year ago. “Chi” was one of the proposed names.
Hey Tata i didnt get a snap of the logo but the place is for Al-Shaya if that helps.
I know the place you are talking about, siam gardens, its behind my office but I never ate there.
Hey Tata Botata, The soup u’re talking about is called “tom ka gai”