Sunday, June 13, 2021

169 Hainanese Chicken Rice (169 海南鸡饭), Chinatown Food Centre

169 Hainanese Chicken Rice (169 海南鸡饭), Chinatown Food Centre

This stall used to be called Super Mummy Hainanese Chicken Rice. For some reasons a couple or so years ago, they changed their name to 169 Hainanese Chicken Rice (#02-169 Chinatown Complex Market and Food Centre, 335 Smith Street). They've always had a sizeable queue going on which was a major deterrence but it didn't look that bad today.

169 Hainanese Chicken Rice (169 海南鸡饭)

This was poached ji wei (鸡尾) with chicken livers. A heart came with those livers too. And if you hadn't yet been clued in, they don't do roast/fried chickens, only the white ones.

169 Hainanese Chicken Rice (169 海南鸡饭), Chinatown Food Centre

Their 鸡尾 had a nice meat to bone ratio. That and also maybe because of the mediocre rice which I've recently had from Margaret Drive Chicken Rice, I found this a lot more satisfying. Really dug the flavour from the sesame oil on the rice, those creamy livers and pretty tender chicken. Pretty sure the chicken would have been also more enjoyable if I didn't have to take away but I take what I can get for now.

169 Hainanese Chicken Rice (169 海南鸡饭), Chinatown Food Centre

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