October 2010
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Christmas & New Year at Chop Chop
It’s been a busy month for us at both Chop Chop Haymarket & Leith, we really enjoyed the judges visit from the Tsingtao competition and are looking forward to attending the awards ceremony on October 28th - we will keep you posted. Thank you to everyone who supported us by voting or attended the judges lunch! As you can see in the picture, Chef Hou crafted two beautiful cranes from...
August 2010
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Final Stats show “Good” or “Excellent” ratings...
Haymarket & Leith Open Sat/Sun Lunch
From Saturday, 7th August, in line with the new Leith branch, Chop Chop in Morrison Street will be opening every Saturday from 12.00 to 2.00 p.m. and every Sunday from 12.30 to 2.30 p.m.for lunch.
Book lunch this weekend at Haymarket or Leith!
“Leith has left us breathless by its rocket-propelled start”
We’ve just completed our...
June 2010
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Chop Chop Leith is now up and running!
Our doors opened on 14th June and, helped by the glorious weather, have actually been full on ten of the twelve days that we’ve opened. We’ve received about 300 surveys back from our guests and, possibly fuelled by their no-corkage BYOB libations and slightly obliged by our £12 voucher bribe (although we ask them to remain impartial), we have registered 75 – 95% good or excellent ratings in all...
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Counting Down to Chop Chop Leith
Just a few days to go before the curtains draw back to reveal Chop Chop Leith, replete with its Chinese furniture. The journey of the furniture from China has been a saga: carefully filling a 40-foot container in Changchun at the beginning of April, hauled by road to Dalian, shipped around the belly of the “Big Chicken” (China – check out its shape on the map), stuck in Hong Kong for a...
May 2010
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Chinese BBQ coming to Leith
Chop Chop Leith is taking shape quickly now. The new walls are up, extending the kitchen and creating a small private dining room, another almost private dining room and an entrance lobby. It’s all looking great. The builders have been working through the weekend, which is appropriate as all building sites in Asia have seven day weeks. A slow boat from China is ploughing through the seven seas...
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Can 3000 Members Be Wrong?
Well, here we are, moving into the 21st century at last, learning to communicate on the internet. It’s about time, too, now that we have over 3,000 Chop Chop Rewards members to keep in the loop, and exciting things going on every week.
2009 was a great year for Chop Chop, beginning with appearances on the lists of both The Independent and The Observer Food Monthly as one of the best...