Star-powered burgers

Celebrity Chinese chef Kenny Fu opens a eatery in Beijing's Sanlitun area, offering fast food that includes gourmet-style burgers, salads and desserts accompanied by a wide selection of fruit juices.[Photo by Liu Zhihua/China Daily]

What Fu calls "spa-boiled" eggs are prepared in a Miele Vitamin Steam Oven, which keeps the egg at 65 C degrees and retains rich vitamins, minerals and other nutrients in the delicacy. The egg white has a smooth texture, while the yolk was a creamy treat. Crunchy vegetables, mostly green and red, formed an appealing nest around the white eggs.

The steaks in the restaurant are also must-tries. I had the Australian 5A Wagyu beef rib-eye steak, and its succulent tenderness still lingers in my memory many days later.

I also liked my dessert of choice, the homemade Italian panna-cotta cheese with organic milk. Silky, cold and lightly sweet, its melt-in-the-mouth freshness is cooling in the summer heat.

Also on the menu: A light tuna-belly salad, made Spanish style in keeping with the overall theme of Nali Patio, and an appetizer plate with four select cheeses.

The restaurant impresses with customer-friendly functional details: At every table, for example, there are power sockets for diners to recharge their electric devices.

The restaurant will officially open late this month, with a larger menu and a capacity to serve 48 diners at a sitting.