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Hi Chef: Premium Ready Meals
by Haidilao

Branding

Business Design

Communication Design

Packaging Design

{ Designing Hi Chef Packaging }

Hi Chef by Haidilao offers a range of premium frozen ready meals that capture the authentic taste of Chinese home-style cooking in a convenient format. To strengthen shelf appeal and brand recognition, Creativeans was appointed to design a unified packaging system that reflects Haidilao’s trusted culinary heritage while appealing to modern consumers seeking quality, convenience, and authenticity.

{ Creative Challenge }

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Hi Chef’s existing packaging lacked visual consistency and clear differentiation across its product range. The challenge was to design packaging that not only communicates rich flavour and authenticity, but also enhances visibility and recognition in the competitive frozen food category. Each pack needed to convey quality, warmth, and freshness, while adhering to Haidilao’s strong brand identity.

{ The Solution }

We developed a modern and appetising packaging system anchored by Haidilao’s signature red and yellow palette, paired with clean layouts and authentic food photography. The refreshed design highlights each product’s hero dish with clarity and appetite appeal, supported by an intuitive information hierarchy for quick recognition. The result is a cohesive, premium-looking range that communicates both culinary excellence and everyday convenience, strengthening Hi Chef’s position as a trusted household brand in the frozen food market.

{ How we design packaging }

We began by defining the core essence of Haidilao Hi Chef, to make authentic Chinese flavours accessible through convenient ready meals.

Through brainstorming and conceptual exploration, we developed visual ideas that capture warmth, appetite, and Haidilao’s trusted culinary heritage.

After establishing the design direction, we created mock-ups and layout trials to assess practicality across multiple SKUs. During this phase, we refined key elements such as colour palette, product photography, and information clarity to achieve a unified and visually appetising design system.

{ Brand Identity }

The Hi Chef packaging design follows a clear, intuitive order of information that enhances visibility and consumer understanding.

Each pack integrates logos, icons, ingredient cues, and cooking information within a balanced grid system, ensuring instant recognition on retail shelves. Our curated copywriting and hierarchy communicate essential product details while evoking flavour and authenticity.

This strategic structure not only improves shelf navigation but also reinforces Haidilao’s positioning as a premium yet accessible ready-meal brand, optimised consumer appeal.

{ Brand Touchpoints }

“With Hi Chef, we fused culinary authenticity and shelf appeal by guiding the visual direction from concept to mock-up. We ensured each element spoke of Haidilao’s heritage with modern clarity. This packaging demonstrates how design can elevate brand trust and consumer delight.”

Kimming Yap

Managing Director, Creativeans

Our Featured Work

Hi Chef: Premium Ready Meals
by Haidilao

“With Hi Chef, we fused culinary authenticity and shelf appeal by guiding the visual direction from concept to mock-up. We ensured each element spoke of Haidilao’s heritage with modern clarity. This packaging demonstrates how design can elevate brand trust and consumer delight.”

Our Featured Work

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Singapore’s First Glueless Angbao Design with Augmented Reality

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Yulia Saksen

Your brand might look great.
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Hi Chef: Premium Ready Mealsby Haidilao

“With Hi Chef, we fused culinary authenticity and shelf appeal by guiding the visual direction from concept to mock-up. We ensured each element spoke of Haidilao’s heritage with modern clarity. This packaging demonstrates how design can elevate brand trust and consumer delight.”

Our Featured Work

Dalezz

Singapore’s First Glueless Angbao Design with Augmented Reality

Ritter Sport

Yulia Saksen

Your brand might look great. But is it working?

Hi Chef: Premium Ready Meals
by Haidilao

Your brand might look great.
But is it working?