Fat Rice won a Beard Award for its dishes, which are inspired by the flavors of Macau, a former Portuguese territory off China’s coast. The unconventional food mixes Chinese, Portuguese, Indian and Southeast Asian influences. The namesake dish shows the spirit: a layered bowl of crisped jasmine rice, curried chicken, prawns, garlicky sausages, steamed clams, hard-boiled eggs and pickled chilies.
Other highlights include piri piri chicken in a tomato-peanut sauce and Portuguese chicken curry with chorizo and olives. The tiny restaurant is wildly popular. It takes limited reservations, or you can walk in if you don’t mind waiting. It also has an attached bakery (open 8am to 3pm Wednesday to Sunday) serving egg tarts and miso fudge brownies, and a moody, reservation-only cocktail bar in back of the bakery.
