This shop at Lucky Plaza (304 Orchard Road, #02-63/64 Lucky Plaza, tel: 6732 1803) wasn't bad considering the variety of stuff that the restaurant was selling. To disclaim, I'm not so experienced in the realms of ayam penyet, having only tried a few places locally and. Have had one in Bintan where the chicken was just fried and not even smashed. This one here actually ranked pretty well in terms of taste and their tender fried chicken was really beaten up and easily removed from the bones. To add on, the tauhu goreng and tempeh were freshly fried. That weak looking chilli on the side was pretty potent. Actual portions were much smaller than it looks on photo.
On the side, we ordered a tauhu telur and a longtong cap go meh. The latter was kinda like lontong in a coconut rich gravy with a chicken drumstick and a keropok on the top. The gravy was rich and flavourful - made me want to eat beyond just one serving of rice. But it was otherwise just a lontong with measly bits of boiled vegetables. I thought that the tauhu telur looked small. The good thing about that was that it didn't appear over-fried and that it came with a bowl of nutty sauce with shrimp paste that upped the flavour game of the dish.
I had a pretty good ayam pengyat at the temporary Geylang Serai market, not sure if it's still there. The chili did take me by surprise as well, appearing so mellow but wielding a pretty strong kick.
ReplyDeleteThat's (Geylang Serai) one place I always forget about when I'm looking for chow. I'll drop by one of these days to see if they're still around. But there seems to be quite a few of these ayam penyet stores around lately. I've had a couple of bad ones.
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