Hunting For Chicken Rice
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Hunting For Chicken Rice
Hi, I've just moved to Singapore not long ago and heard about how good chicken rice tasted. I've had the common coffeeshop fare but I think there should be better stalls out there somewhere. Does anybody know where to find the better-quality stalls?
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Re: Hunting For Chicken Rice
Boon Tong Kee
Five Star Hainanese Chicken Rice
If you want more a restaurant, table cloth, good service type place, then ChatterBox is the answer.
Five Star Hainanese Chicken Rice
If you want more a restaurant, table cloth, good service type place, then ChatterBox is the answer.
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It can be bad for your teeth though. Have you consulted a dentist?
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Scummy Mummy wrote:It can be bad for your teeth though. Have you consulted a dentist?
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Ahhh, Scummy, you're quite the cynic!!Scummy Mummy wrote:It can be bad for your teeth though. Have you consulted a dentist?
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Yes indeed. But look at the poster's previous post.
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i personally think chatterbox is highly over rated...... and highly over priced.
Boon tong Kee and Loy kee are famous
Boon tong Kee and Loy kee are famous
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I think it's quite nice, especially as they invented Chicken Rice to begin with.expat yorkshire wrote:i personally think chatterbox is highly over rated...... and highly over priced.
Pricey, yeah, but quite a few tourists have trouble eating in this heat, especially older ones.
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Don't forget Wee Nam Kee at Novena (across from the Church-down from IRAS a block or so)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainanese_chicken_rice
Personally I don't believe in going to a restaurant for Chicken Rice.
Personally I don't believe in going to a restaurant for Chicken Rice.
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Re: Hunting For Chicken Rice
You may want to have a look through this thread on one of the local sites for some ideas.
Alternatively, the place I go to does an excellent chicken rice, but it may be further than you wish to travel.
edit: wayward URL
Alternatively, the place I go to does an excellent chicken rice, but it may be further than you wish to travel.
edit: wayward URL
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Skanks recommendation is good, that is also one of the famous ones
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not all that crazy about chicken rice, but as hawker food goes, it is palatable...
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Hey, guys. Thanks for your helpful recommendations.
I posted this on other forums too. They all seem to agree on Boon Tong Kee, Wee Kee Nam and Five Star Hainanese Chicken Rice. I'm spoilt for choice with so many stalls to dine at.
Just in case I got it wrong(bad at spelling chinese names), is there a Wee Nam Kee stall at 275 Thomson Road, #01-05 Novena Ville S307645? I searched this on *deleted* and just wanted to confirm.
Please reply ASAP! I'm salivating already...
Admin Edit: HIS, it's nice that you have found what you are looking for but if you continue to mention a certain website over and over again in your posts, I'll be forced to admit that Scummy Mummy is right and that you are nothing more than a well disguised troll trying to advertise another site.
I posted this on other forums too. They all seem to agree on Boon Tong Kee, Wee Kee Nam and Five Star Hainanese Chicken Rice. I'm spoilt for choice with so many stalls to dine at.
Just in case I got it wrong(bad at spelling chinese names), is there a Wee Nam Kee stall at 275 Thomson Road, #01-05 Novena Ville S307645? I searched this on *deleted* and just wanted to confirm.
Please reply ASAP! I'm salivating already...
Admin Edit: HIS, it's nice that you have found what you are looking for but if you continue to mention a certain website over and over again in your posts, I'll be forced to admit that Scummy Mummy is right and that you are nothing more than a well disguised troll trying to advertise another site.
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Re: Hunting For Chicken Rice
I'm with Baloon
Five star Hainanese on River valley Road is the best of the best, although the other half of the island suggests next-door Book Tong is the best.
At that standard, the difference is in the accompanying chili sauce.
Five star Hainanese on River valley Road is the best of the best, although the other half of the island suggests next-door Book Tong is the best.
At that standard, the difference is in the accompanying chili sauce.
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Tried 5* last week. Not bad at all, though getting anyone to understand that I just wanted 1 plate of chicken for one person (even though I was at a table with 6 people) and not a whole/half chicken, was all rather difficult
Beer was cold too
Beer was cold too
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It's chicken rice. OK, as an easy dish, it's pleasant, but really, it's nothing special. Next subject.
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The local equivalent of a sandwhich....sometimes you have a great sandwhich sometimes you get a great chicken rice but never really something I have thought much about
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Isnt' it the same for all food? It is just food.Fat Bob wrote:, it's pleasant, but really, it's nothing special. .
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Ooooh, no indeed not. I love a good steak, get a good blue cheese sauce (or slice a lump of stilton on top whilst grilling) or hot mustard with it and tasty salad....lovely. Some things just taste so good. Chicken in general and chincken rice in particular are nto really taste sensations that I would wander the earth to find a good one.
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My thyroid is playing up again at the moment; my tastebuds have gone awol (common, apparently) and nothing tastes of anything.
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what M said
I've been to the famous one on RVR, but it was nothing special - if there's a better variety I'll try it, but the idea of boiled, clammy chicken does not inspire a visit. And yes if I actually ever go back to a hawer's would probably eat it as the lesser of other evils....
I've been to the famous one on RVR, but it was nothing special - if there's a better variety I'll try it, but the idea of boiled, clammy chicken does not inspire a visit. And yes if I actually ever go back to a hawer's would probably eat it as the lesser of other evils....
Morrolan wrote:not all that crazy about chicken rice, but as hawker food goes, it is palatable...
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Fat Bob wrote:Ooooh, no indeed not. .
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hmmmm.....that wasn't the point you were making earlier (it was more about food being just sustenance to the body). Agree some may enjoy chicken rice more than me, but it's part of a staple diet and not top cuisine.
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