Being a salad and noodle bar, Chiak offers salad/noodle bowls for lunch from 11:30am onwards, dishing out both signature bowls with preset ingredients and "design your own bowl" options that allows one to customize the bowls to their preferences. Each Design Your Own Bowl comes with a choice of one base (rice, noodles or soba), one protein, two sides and three toppings, with additional dressing for those who opt for dry noodles or two choices of broth for soup noodles. Deciding on the dry Soba, we opted for the Beanie Hoisin which is savoury with a nutty flavour, while opting for Belly Pork Char Siew for protein, Jicama, Carrot and Mango Salad and Shimeiji Mushrooms for sides withCherry Tomato, Grilled Pumpkin and Seaweed Flakes for toppings. Must say that the entire bowl came off pretty well and it's hard not to like given its all things that I liked within the bowl, but we were pretty blown by how the Belly Pork Char Siew was immensely flavourful with savoury-sweet flavours that tasted pretty much as though it came off from a good Roasted Delights stall than a salad bar; could have been a little bit more tender but that would have been a little picky to mention. Roasted pumpkin was soft to the bite and subtly sweet and earthy, while the cherry tomatoes were immensely juicy and fresh as they burst out its zesty goodness. Shimeiji Mushrooms were juicy and bouncy, and fits especially well with the seaweed flakes and soba to create that Japanese-inspired flavour in this random bowl we created.

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