03-07-2025
Chicken rice institution Chatterbox Cafe to open at RWS on July 21 with new dishes
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In addition to its signature Mandarin Chicken Rice set, Chatterbox Cafe at Resorts World Sentosa's Weave mall will offer more seafood, dessert and drink options.
SINGAPORE – From July 21, chicken rice lovers can flock to Chatterbox Cafe at Resorts World Sentosa's (RWS) new lifestyle enclave Weave for their fix of the iconic dish and new items.
The 91-seat restaurant – including a 16-seat pet-friendly outdoor area – distinguishes itself from the 54-year-old Chatterbox flagship at Hilton Singapore Orchard with more seafood, dessert and drink options.
There is also a Chatterbox Express outlet at Changi Airport Terminal 1.
The new restaurant will serve the signature Mandarin Chicken Rice set at a slightly reduced price of $23++, compared with $25++ at the original Chatterbox.
It features boneless and tender steamed chicken with fragrant jasmine rice, soup and a trio of housemade chilli sauce, ginger puree and dark soya sauce.
The Straits Times had a first taste of the new dishes by Chatterbox's group executive chef Liew Tian Heong. They include deep-fried sea perch with homemade soya sauce ($35) and stir-fried king prawns with caramelised palm sugar sauce ($26).
Usually offered as a limited-time promotion at the original outlet, diners at the Weave branch can savour rotating crab dishes, priced at a fixed $168++ for a hefty Sri Lankan mud crab weighing between 1.2kg and 1.4kg.
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Chilli crab will launch first in July, in line with the restaurant's opening, followed by the flavours of black pepper sauce and Golden Fragrance 'Kam Heong' Sauce.
Other flagship favourites on the menu include seafood Hokkien mee ($24), lobster laksa ($36) and crispy salted egg chicken wings ($11 for four pieces).
Besides Chatterbox's signature coconut shake ($9++), there are three new drinks ($8++ each). They are coffee and coconut shake; peanut butter coconut shake with adzuki red beans; and peach, yuzu and tamarind slushie.
For dessert, a selection of Peranakan kueh – sarang semut, sago bandung, pulut bingka and kueh bingka – is available at $13++ for eight pieces (two per flavour) for dine-in or takeaway as a gift set.
Pick up merchandise – available at all three outlets – featuring Chatterbox's chicken mascot Archibald. These include a tote bag ($39), keychain ($28) and oversized T-shirt ($48).
Chatterbox Cafe's opening adds to Weave's slate of food and beverage (F&B) concepts, with the likes of Chinese milk tea chain Chagee and Taiwanese restaurant chain Din Tai Fung already open.
Chatterbox Singapore is under real estate and healthcare group OUE Limited's OUE Restaurants F&B brands. These include one-Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant Shisen Hanten by Chen Kentaro at Hilton Singapore Orchard and nightlife hot spot HighHouse at One Raffles Place.
Chef Liew, 63, has been with Chatterbox for more than 30 years and is instrumental in maintaining the food's consistency, developing new dishes and expanding the brand overseas.
He started as an assistant and worked his way through Mandarin Orchard's (now Hilton Singapore Orchard) banquet kitchen and its now-defunct Chinese restaurants, Pine Court and Mandarin Court.
There are three Chatterbox outlets in Hong Kong, and there are upcoming openings in cities such as Macau, Manila, Tokyo and Taiwan.
On the RWS debut, chef Liew says: 'While our focus is on chicken rice, we want tourists to try a wide variety of traditional Singapore cuisine made with quality ingredients.'
Chatterbox Cafe at 02-207 Resorts World Sentosa, 26 Sentosa Gateway, launches on July 21. It is open from 11.30am to 3.30pm and 5.30 to 9.30pm daily. For more information, go to
or call 9654-4611 for reservations.
