This week, we tried out Chai Ki – a fancy restaurant serving up modern Indian dishes.
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The concept of Chai Ki’s menu fits the surrounding area – sharing plates of food for an after work catch-up over some drinks. The drinks menu is quite extensive and you’re bound to find something you like. As we were on the look out for something special, we couldn’t resist going for the teapot cocktails. Literally, a cocktail served in a teapot! Great for sharing and if you like to sip at your drink slowly. Each pot serves four small glasses, which may or may not be enough, depending on how much you like to drink.
We chose the Lychee Teapot (£12.50) – which consisted of lychee, cinnamon and chai spice infusion and vodka. This was more like a lychee juice drink than a cocktail. We couldn’t really taste the cinnamon and chai spice infusion though, which was a shame because it could’ve made this drink really special.
First of our dishes was the Koliwada Calamari (£8.20). The squid was fried in strips like the salt and pepper squid you’d get in a Chinese restaurant. But instead these were covered with Indian spices. There was a coating of jaggery cane sugar over the squid which made the dish quite sweet.
Coorgi Pulled Pork (£7.90) – this is one for the spice lovers! Pulled pork shoulder mixed in a creamy coconut curry. Served on top of a layered bread called malaba paratha – which was crispy and flaky like a roti. This was super yummy. The curry leaf hits you first, then you get the explosion of all the other different Indian spices
The highlight of the night was definitely the Dakshini Korma (£7.60 without rice). A creamy vegetarian curry, consisting of sweet potato, red and green peppers, courgette, mange tout, baby corn and crispy kale. All the different textures and flavours of the vegetables worked really well with the curry. The fragrance of the coconut together with the mild spices were really nice.
Instead of rice, we ordered a side portion of the Malaba Paratha (£2.50) to go with our Korma instead. A really good combination – creamy curry with a crispy flaky bread. Don’t be fooled by the presentation though, you only get one piece.
So overall we’re giving Chai Ki a total of 3 yums. The food was good, but not quite enough to blow us away. It was also a little pricey for the food we had. However this was in Canary Wharf afterall. So if you’re in the area, then maybe give Chai Ki a try.
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