Kill Chicken or Q Chicken?

When you are travelling to Singapore, there are a list of food that you must give it a try. It can be cheap delicacies like 'Laksa', 'Chicken Rice', etc... or expensive stuff like 'Chilli Crab', 'Fish Head Curry', etc... Therefore the topic today will be...

'Soya Sauce Chicken Rice'
The infamous type of 'Chicken Rice' that you can find in Singapore would
most likely be 'Hainanese Chicken Rice'. (It's the white coloured Chicken.)
However, that isn't everything. In fact, there are a lot of variety of
'Chicken' out there in the food centre of Singapore. There's 'Kampong
Chicken', 'Curry Chicken', 'Soya Sauce Chicken', etc...

So what's so special about the 'Soya Sauce Chicken Rice' over here?
Firstly, the meat isn't too stiff and the amount of tenderness are on
par with the 'Hainanese Chicken Rice'. However, it's slightly a bit more
salty. Secondly, the sweet soya sauce that were poured onto the rice were
good enough in helping you to finish your rice. To some extent, I don't
feel like touching the 'Chicken' meat at all, especially when the
'Chicken' comes with bones. =.= Third but not least, the relatively
low price. For less than S$3, you can get a delicious plate of 'Chicken'
rice. Beat that if you can. However...

all good things come with a price. The queue for this 'Chicken Rice'
can be pretty nasty. I saw customers ordering more than 10 plates of
'Chicken Rice' at one go. Therefore, if you want to queue up for the
good food, please be mentally prepared...

So where can you give the 'Chicken Rice' a try?

The name of this stall would be 'Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice and Noodles'
(香港油鸡饭面). It's located on level 2 of 'Chinatown Complex Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  10am - 8pm (Closed on Wednesdays)
  (Closing time subject to change if all the 'Chicken' have been sold out.)

* Click here for the location of 'Chinatown Complex Food Centre' on Google Maps.
^ Click here for the list of delicacies that can be found in 'Chinatown Complex Food Centre'.

Don't need to queue up for a bowl of noodles? Think again...

From time to time, I will be desperately looking for delicious noodles stall to try. Since I'm staying near a handful of food centre, I decided to randomly select one of them and go in and try my luck.

'Minced Meat Noodles'
For a relatively low price that I'm paying, I'm getting a
decent bowl of 'Minced Meat Noodles' with lots of ingredients.

Just for the bowl of noodles alone, you are getting ingredients like
slices Fish Cake, minced meat, mushrooms, vegetables and big pieces of
fried lard. Taste wise, the noodles are pretty tasty and the stall
owner had maintain the balance between the noodles and the sauce. Most
importantly the noodles isn't too soggy. Ingredients wise, though
most of them are very tasty, but my favourite would be the big pieces
of crispy deep fried lard.

So where can you try the noodles?

The name of the stall would be 'Teochew Street Mushroom Mince Meat Noodles'
(潮洲街香菇肉脞麵). It's located on level 2 of 'Chinatown Complex Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  12:30am - 9pm
  (Tue - Wed, Fri - Sun)
  (Closed on Mondays and Thursday)
• The queue can be pretty nasty regardless of the peak or off peak dining hours. I started queueing up at around 5pm and I ended up queueing for more than 20 minutes the other time round.

* Click here for the location of 'Chinatown Complex Food Centre' on Google Maps.
^ Click here for the list of delicacies that can be found in 'Chinatown Complex Food Centre'.

Sukiya

As it had been raining nonstop last weekend, therefore...

'Sukiyaki/Shabu Shabu'
{Left} Sukiyaki soup base - slightly a bit salty and sweet.
{Right} Soy Milk Miso - slightly a bit boring...
Over here, they are providing you unlimited servings of Beef,
Pork and Chicken meat slices. The meat slices that you are
getting over here are pretty much similar with what you will
be getting in Japan. You will be given thin slices of meat
that can be cookwd within a shorter period of time and it can
also absorb the taste of the soup even much more better.
Besides for the generous servings of meat, they have set aside
all the other ingredients at a counter. You can pick up all
sorts of vegetables, mushrooms, fish meat, beancurd, etc...
from the counter.

'Ice Cream'
After having too much food, it's time to give the 'Ice Cream'
a try. They are providing 'Vanilla' and 'Chocolate' 'Ice Cream'
over here. After spending an amount of time squeezing out all
the 'Ice Cream' that you want, you can add various types of
toppings to it, which makes it much more prettier and tastier. XD

The name of the restaurant would be 'Sukiya'.
It specializing in Japanese 'Sukiyaki' & 'Shabu Shabu'.
It have numerous outlets in Singapore and what I have
shown here would be the 'Bugis+' outlet.

* Click here to find out more about the restaurant 'Sukiya'.
^ Click here to find out more about 'Bugis+'.

First attempt at Laksa Steamboat XD

For my entire life, I have been trying numerous type of steamboat with a variety of soup bases. It can either be spicy soup base like 'Tom Yum', 'Si Chuan Ma La' and non spicy soup base like 'Herbal Chicken', 'Chrysanthemum', etc. Despite having and trying so many different types of steamboat, my interest for it doesn't seems to decrease. Therefore ever since I pass by a steamboat restaurant offering 'Laksa' soup base steamboat, I told myself that I should give it a try someday. And it so so happen that someday appears to be pretty soon...

Steamboat with 'Laksa' base and 'Chicken Soup' base
Although they are only providing ala-carte style steamboat over here,
but we are having lots of fun too. After placing an order for more than
20 different types of ingredients, we were sitting around the spacious
round table with a steamboat pot in the middle, chatting away. (In fact
to some extent, the table was so spacious that there were a few moments
where all of us were standing up cooking and scooping out the ingredients
from the pot. :P) Anyway, the price that you are paying for each and
every plate of ingredients were pretty reasonable and the ingredients were
pretty fresh. On top of that, though they are not providing all the
ingredients at a corner of the restaurant, but at least this can keep the
amount of food wastage to the minimum and the freshness of the ingredients
to the maximum. Either ways, time for some food tasting.

Although the soup is meant to be for cooking the raw ingredients, but we
have thrown Noodles and Rice Vermicelli into the pot too. Trust me, this
is something that one must try over here. The standards for the 'Laksa'
soup base is pretty high. It's pretty sweet and delicious. I think I have
drank more than 4 or 5 bowls of soup with lots of different kinds of
ingredients. This is simply pretty much similar to a 'Laksa' buffet with
the idea of mix and match all the ingredients you want. XD

'Ice Jelly with Honey and Lime'
After giving this sinful steamboat a try, we might have spent an hour or
so chatting none stop and through my friends recommendation, I decided to
give this dessert a try. The refreshing sensation that you will be getting
from the dessert after giving the 'Laksa' steamboat a try is unbeatable.

So where can you give this 'Laksa' steamboat a try?

The name of this restaurant would be 'San Laksa steamboat'. Their
main branch is located along 'Telok Blangah Road', but what I have shown
here would be the newer branch that was located along 'Pasir Panjang Road'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours: 11am - 11pm
• The main branch seems to be crazily crowded most of the time, therefore you probably might want to give the branch located along 'Pasir Panjang Road' a try, which is also less crowded, since it's open less than 2 months ago.

* Click here to find out more about 'San Laksa steamboat'.
^ Click here for the Facebook Fan Page of 'San Laksa steamboat'.
~ Click here for the location of the newer branch on Google Maps.

A meal for the hungry me.

Since I'm staying near Chinatown area, I tend to give some of the restaurants over there once in a while. As for the other day, I decided to give this restaurant a try.

Okay that would be my dinner for that day.
Though I wanted to try the set meals that they are offering, but I
ended up placing an order for one of the set meal, a bowl of Noodles,
a basket of 'Dumplings' and a mug? of Chinese Tea.

Mug of Chinese Tea
I guess that they are pretty used with customers going there for beer,
therefore that was the main reason for the mug... Either ways, the tea
isn't something special, but It's the mug that adds a pinch of laughter. XD

'Soup Dumplings'(小籠包)
Though the skin is pretty soft, but it's slightly a bit too thick.
Therefore this has reduce the amount of ingredients that can be stuffed
into the 'Soup Dumplings', which also cause the taste to be pretty 'normal'.

'Lemon Chicken Set Meal'(Left)
First of all, I think that the set meal that they are offering over
here are considerably good. It comes with a plate of fried vegetables,
a small portion of pickles and a main dish. The stir fried vegetables
are simply too plain to me. It will taste even better if they can
add a bit more oyster sauce. :P As for the main dish, 'Lemon Chicken',
it's basically a plate of fried chicken and a plate of lemon sauce.
Not sure why they have chosen the step of separating the sauce and
the meat, but the fried chicken is pretty crispy and the lemon sauce
is pretty thick. Though the overall taste of the lemon chicken is
good but I think that it could taste even much more better if they
have mixed the chicken and the lemon sauce up front.

'Zha Jiang Mian'(炸酱面)(right)
In fact, I personally felt that I have ordered too much food that
night. Just the set meal alone was fulling enough, but since I have
ordered this, I should try my best in finishing everything. After
having my first bite, the taste of the 'Zha Jiang Mian' was amazingly
good. The amount of meaty sauce that was poured into the bowl were
pretty okay. Though it's slightly a bit salty, but the portion of
sauce that were given isn't too much nor too little, just the correct
amount of sauce. :D As I continued to savour the noodles, the cooling
sensation of the cucumber would be something that couldn't be missed.
In fact it's the delicious taste that was combined from the noodles
and the rest of the ingredients that keeps me going on and on till the
very last drop of the sauce. :P

So where can you give all the food listed in the above a try?

The name of this Chinese restaurant would be 'Zhong Hua Qing Zhong Guo
Cai Guan'(中華情中國菜館). It's located along 'New Bridge Road'.

* Click here for the location of 'Zhong Hua Qing Zhong Guo Cai Guan'(中華情中國菜館).
^ Click here for the list of delicacy located along 'New Bridge Road'.

Not so Korean, Korean Food

A continuation from the previous post. Though I have go ahead with the Taiwanese Chicken, but probably because of the fact that I didn't try the Bento set, therefore I'm still pretty hungry. So...

'Hotplate Chicken and Saba Fish Set'
Though the name of the shop and the food looks 'Korean', but if you
replace the silver utensils with a plastic utensils, it actually looks
like the normal hotplate food that one can get from a Chinese or
Japanese restaurant. Oh by the way, since this is a small little stall,
you are actually expected to grab your utensils and a small plate of
'Kim Chi' and 'Anchovy' from a table near the counter. (By the way,
they are providing 2 different types of chopsticks over here. One would
be the thin type that you can getting at a 'Korean' restaurant and the
other type would be the normal Chinese chopsticks.)

Moving back to food tasting, the taste of the side dish is pretty normal.
However, the ingredients in the hot plate is considerably good. Though
the vegetables are slightly a bit overcook and a bit soggy, but since
the taste of the vegetables were overpowered by the sauce, one could
finish the whole plate of vegetables without any difficulties. Next, the
hot plate chicken is pretty tasty. It's neither too salty nor burnt.
And for some reason, the chef have managed to blend the taste of the
chicken and the taste of the sauce together, which makes it even better.
As for the fish, I think it's slightly a bit overcook and since it's
'Saba'(Mackerel) fish, therefore one has to spend a bit of time struggling
with the bones of the fish. By the way, the Sunshine Egg is a add-on to
the set meal. And I didn't expect it to be this good. The egg is slightly
a bit watery and dipping the chicken into the egg yolk is a complete
Plus(+). Do give this stall a try, if you happen to be popping by
that area.

So where can you give the food a try?

The name of the stall would be 'Sun Korean Food'.
It's located in basement 1 of 'Central Shopping Mall'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours: 11am - 10pm
• Probably because of the offices upstairs, therefore the crowd at this stall can be pretty nasty. Therefore, either go to this stall earlier or later to avoid the Lunch and Dinner crowd.

* Click here to find out more about 'Central Shopping Mall'.
^ Click here for the list of delicacies that can be found in 'Central Shopping Mall'.

Bento from Taiwan

After having a hearty meal at Chinatown area, we decided to make our way to the next MRT station nearby. Since it's located beneath a shopping mall, we decided to go ahead with a bit of window shopping. :P (Though it's pretty late already and most of the shops are closed, but we still can catch a glimpse of the interior of some of the shops in the building.) In fact, my friend had recommended us to a shop that he thinks that the taste is pretty much similar to the stuff that he's getting in Taiwan, therefore...

I decided to give it a try the following day. Left: 'Taiwanese Style Fried Chicken'(台灣香酥雞) Right: 'Taiwanese Style Bubble Tea' For the fried chicken, though it looks like a pretty small packet of chicken, but looks can be deceiving. Though this is my first attempt with the food at this stall, but the overall experience is pretty good. Firstly, the chicken meat is pretty tender and juicy. Secondly, unlike some of the Taiwanese stalls out there selling Taiwanese delicacy, that amount of salt that was added to the chicken over here is pretty acceptable. Most importantly, it isn't crazily salty. Last but not least, the taste of the chicken meat is delicious. Though the packet of chicken is pretty small, but probably the taste of the Chicken is so good that I finish the whole packet within a minute or so. :P Drinks wise, it's pretty normal, but if you are going to give it a try, you probably can try requesting for a cup of Bubble Tea with much lesser ice. (So that you wouldn't be having a hard time sucking all the jellies...)

So where can you give the delicious Taiwanese Chicken a try?

The name of the stall would be 'Taiwan Bento'(臺灣便當).
It's located in basement 1 of 'Central Shopping Mall'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours: 11am - 11pm

* Click here to find out more about 'Central Shopping Mall'.
^ Click here for the list of delicacies that can be found in 'Central Shopping Mall'.