Master Nan Hainanese Chicken Rice (南北海南鸡饭), Happy Hawkers @ Kim Tian

This stall's (201 Kim Tian Road) right next door to Tian Tian Chi Mian. I normally don't comment on service from coffee shop stalls but the guy with slicked back hair here appeared to have problem processing my orders. I paid thrice because he kept forgetting to charge for things and still got my orders wrong.

This was poached chicken and char siew. Nothing particularly special about the chicken but the nicely caramelized fatty char siew was pretty good tasting.

Perhaps this gives a better picture of that caramelized fatty char siew

Decent light but adequate flavouring of their beady rice. Nice with their spicy/sweet/lime-y/garlicky chilli.

Liver and egg on the side.

 

Getting chicken rice from Dian Xiao Er

Dian Xiao Er has chicken rice these days. Only available in a few of their branches it seems. It's an unexpected turn of events since they have been, and are still known for their roasted ducks.

Some passion fruit drink call Vita Charge Passion Fruit. Pretty refreshing. Did enjoy it even though it wasn't as gao as I imagined.

There's a decent homemade tofu with conpoy, crabmeat and luffa on the menu. The sauce in it was savoury and eggy.

Their poached chicken - I thought what they have done was pretty respectable. Got ourselves a half chicken serving. Bird was chilled and pretty tender. That said, it didn't have the "slurp off the bone easily" quality that stalls like Sin Kee can do. Not a deal breaker that.

Competently done rice (油饭) they did with a hint of ginger.

Yong Kee Different Taste Hainanese Chicken Rice (勇記不同味海南雞飯), Hong Lim Food Centre

Trying a chicken rice stall (#02-24 Hong Lim Food Centre, 531A Upper Cross Street) I've never noticed previously at Hong Lim Food Centre. They've been around - just that I haven't registered them before.

Got a plate with poached chicken thigh, roast pork and egg.

Pretty decent chicken rice here. Chilli's lime-y, garlicky, a little gingery with a hint of bitterness and some heat. Chicken's tender and rice was adequately flavoured. I think this one was better with chilli than without. Soup has really tender cabbages in it but I'm pretty sure I caught kiam chye flavour. What's not good was the roast pork which had soggy crackling.

Go-Ang Pratunam Chicken Rice, Anchorpoint

Go-Ang Pratunam Chicken Rice has been around for some years and have a number of branches around. Having their chicken rice for the first time. Never ate at the original in Bangkok before. This was Anchorpoint (#01‬-07/08 Anchorpoint, 70 Alexandra Road, ‎tel  : +65 6470 8200).

Ice rose milk tea was pretty good - exactly like bandung with Thai tea if anyone's wondering. Roselle was decent, but it's not in the same leagues as the one from Din Tai Fung. 

Both the thigh & breast meat chicken rice were nicely done. They're similar to the local Hainanese rendition minus the drizzle of sesame/chicken oil and light soya sauce. Rice was flavoured enough to eat on its own.

Salty chicken soup and sauces. The dark one reminded me of a less viscous chee cheong fun sauce with chilli.

Not bad tasting bitter gourd with eggs - the only thing I didn't quite like was the excessive oil which were pooling at the bottom of the plate.

Sambal kang kong's competent and nothing out of the ordinary.

We liked their steamed tapioca and coconut cream dessert. Nice sweetness from tapioca and light saltiness from that cream. What we also appreciated was that those tapioca weren't fibrous.

Pine Chicken Rice (松香鸡饭), Taman Melodies, Johor Bahru

Heard good things about Pine Chicken Rice (161 Jalan Beringin, Taman Melodies, 80250 Johor Bahru, tel : +60 13-715 3211).

Lemon tea's pleasantly astringent.

Coffee's pretty decent too. Not as aromatic as I usually prefer but it's pretty robust.

That one sauce that we've never encountered before at chicken rice shops/stalls is the green one.

Got ourselves the lower quarter of their poached chicken which was basically dark meat. Bird's smooth, firm and tender. Nice.

Rice was nicely flavoured from their stock and not excessively greasy. There's adequate savouriness that one could inhale with or without the chilli sauces. Soup's pleasantly herbal.

Speaking of sauces...the red's not like the one back home. It's less punchy, less sweet and didn't seem to be lime-y but still pretty good tasting. The green one's deliciously lime-y. Nice.

Egg.

Otah's pretty good. Heard it's not made in house but that don't make us think lesser of it. Plenty of little chunks of fish in it.

In essence, Pine Chicken Rice was nothing short of competent. Would not mind coming back at all.

Uncle Louis Famous Chicken Rice, Amoy Street Food Centre

Came across Uncle Louis Famous Chicken Rice (#01-02 Amoy Street Food Centre, 7 Maxwell Road) which has taken over the previous chicken rice stall right next to the char kuey teow stall at Amoy Street Food Centre. I remember seeing another branch at Maxwell Food Centre and I was told that there's another at Market Street Hawker Centre.

This was poached chicken thigh (白鸡尾) for two with a couple of eggs and liver. Not bad tasting. Sauce was slightly sweet and full of sesame oil. Meat was tender but not so easily slurped off the bone.

This was probably not the best picture to show that there's a thin layer of chicken jelly neath the skin of their chilled chicken.

Rice was pretty good with and without their garlicky/gingery chilli sauce which packed more heat than I anticipated. I'd take this over Tian Tian.

白鸡尾饭 from Da Po at Hawkers' Street @ 100AM

It's been a while since I've last had chicken rice at Da Po and that was at their stall at Golden Mile. This branch at Hawkers' Street @ 100AM kinda reaffirmed my faith in them. Solid plate with tender meat and creamy livers drizzled with that light soya sauce and sesame oil. Even got a heart today. Chilli's lime-y and gingery. If there was a gripe, it'll be that the thigh was kinda small.

Ming Heng Boneless Chicken Rice (銘興起骨鸡饭), Jalan Bukit Merah

Came across Ming Heng Boneless Chicken Rice (#01-1688, 111 Jalan Bukit Merah) at the coffeeshop in the perpendicular block from Jalan Bukit Merah Food Centre. This was thigh meat (鸡尾) and an egg for $4.60. Portion felt a little small and the flavour in the rice was a little light - but I think it's decent and a totally legit plate.

Zeng Ji Hainanese Boneless Chicken Rice (曾記起骨鶺飯), Marine Parade Central Food Centre

Trying out another chicken rice stall (#01-52 Marine Parade Central Food Centre, 84 Marine Parade Central) from Marine Parade Central Food Centre. This one has a longer and slower moving queue. Got the serving with half 白 and half 烧. No additional charge for request for thigh meat. For some reasons, the details elude me but it was all round a pretty good plate as I remember it. 

Restoran Jiang He (江河炸鸡饭), Jalan Imbi, Kuala Lumpur

Restoran Jiang He (49 Jalan Padang, Bukit Bintang, 55100 Kuala Lumpur) was mentioned somewhere and we wanted to find out for ourselves how good their fried chicken rice might be. Google has strung up a complicated geotagged address (No. 49, Jalan Padang Walter Grenier, off, Jln Imbi, Bukit Bintang, 55100 Kuala Lumpur) to their location.  

I have absolutely no idea why Walter Grenier had to be mentioned in that mess of an address aside from the fact that Jalan Padang is in between Jalan Walter Grenier and Lorong Walter Grenier. 🤯 Enlighten me anyone?

Anywayyss...chicken rice. Not bad. Rice was savoury, pretty well flavoured and had a light hint of ginger which I didn't even mind. Paired nicely with their garlicky & limey chilli.

The mentioned fried chicken was a sizeable meaty battered thigh. The brining has gone all the way into the meat. Nice. Will be Back.

There's been a bunch of conflicting information online on their operating hours. As of this visit, the word from the proprietress is Mon - Sat from 9am.

Revisiting Tiong Bahru Hainanese Chicken Rice @ Takashimaya

That's their coconut fizz float which was basically a scoop of coconut ice cream in tonic water. Kinda liked this.

We were here to try something different from them. Something they called oven baked French poulet with Japanese rice which was prepared on order and had a 25 minutes waiting time. So we munched on some stuff...like their sweet and sour pork while waiting. Not bad this one. Crisp on the outside.

I don't know if this was French chicken because we also heard them mention kampong chicken. Meat was tender. The crisp skin had a flavour which reminded me of honey soya sauce glaze.

Under the chook was chicken rice with garlic. They used Niigata Koshihikari rice for that. Nice.