Medium serving @ S$7.70

Flat. Yup, flatten chicken breast meat. I prefer fragrantly tasty chicken rice, rice. Unfortunately, the rice wasn’t packed with flavour unlike an old Boon Tong Kee stall at the old China Square food court (I don’t know where the uncle relocated his chicken rice stall, super sad).

Anyways, back to the chicken breast meat, it wasn’t mind blowing. The meat was quite ordinary maybe it was my fault to dowse it with black sauce and chilli. The chilli? I feel it could have more kick adding to the flavour notes of the chicken breast.

The soup? Very diluted. It didn’t taste like chicken soup.

Do we blame the poor quality of chicken rice to frozen chickens? Or is it something more systematic plaguing our local F&B industry that is grappling with a covid-19 recovery phase?

What do you think?

The first seed was heavenly good but the second and third had an unfamiliar sourish taste - WTH! Given how competitive the durian market is these days I will try another eatery for my next purchase.

Sorry, WTF Durian.

I ordered begedil, ikan bilis and kacang, sambal goreng and Bean sprouts (towgay) with rice.

While I’m a fan of Hjh Maimunah and this review might be biased 😬 In any case, I did have a 50-50 experience to this meal.

Let’s start with the good: I loved the begedil. It was slightly crispy (though it could be crispier) on the outside and tender on the inside. When I took a bite it was packed with flavour likely from the spices. Definitely worth adding to any nasi padang! The ikan bilis was not as crispy so that was a tad sad. The sambal goreng could have been a little spicer but i’m not complaining.

The bad: the most disappointing was the towgay which was quite bitter - mmmm. I wonder if anyone had a similar experience 🤔

Regardless, there’s so much to choose. I would recommend to mix and match but watch out for the towgay!

Despite the corny name this burger is one mean meat music machine! Biting into this bundle of joy hits all the right notes. Who cares if its 100% USDA Prime Black Angus beef patty with pulled beef. As long as it’s tasty and properly seasoned I am a happy boy. And after my last burger fiasco this burger by Crafted is perfectly tuned. Flavourful with lovely tender messy juicy goodness between buns to bring a piano key smile on my face! In the immortal words of Arnie, “I’ll be back”.

I was attracted by the number of Michelin Bib Gourmand awards on the wall so I thought the food must be good.

My order: the limited offer fried chicken rice at only S$6.50.

My verdict: my meal was more fried crispy skin than chicken meat. The rice was plain not the traditional tasty chicken rice (not sure if this was intentional). I won’t try this again but that’s me. To be fair I might try their traditional chicken rice set which is likely the reason for all their awards. Ah well, wasted tummy space.

Bland. Yup, bland. Definitely, underseasoned. I had to tear open a packet of ketchup and mustard to wake up my taste buds. By the way, “the works” already comes with ketchup and mustard! A far cry from the burger joint on 57th Street located in The Thomson Hotel next to Le Meridien, Central Park. If anyone is wondering, i had the same burger a week ago in NYC. So, when I exclaim the SG version is disappointing - it is terribly disappointing (and more expensive too)! Honestly, I was hoping I would have a divine experience in my home country but I was plunged into hell.