Xiang Jiang Claypot Chicken Rice

This stall ranks high in my list of best eats — Located at a relatively ‘ulu’ [a.k.a. remote] part of Jurong West, 香江 serves up a mouth-watering claypot chicken rice cooked over charcoal fire which adds a distinct smokey and charred flavour to it.

Equally obsessed with is their tender, well-marinated chicken and the fragrant, charred crust at the bottom of the claypot paired with generous serving of lup cheong [a.k.a. Chinese sausage] and salted fish. 😋

This piping hot claypot rice is my family’s ultimate comfort food during rainy season in November and December!

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Chicken so tender, I thought I was eating fish.

Chicken well marinated also, very tasty and is rather popular with the jurong west crowd. A friend of mine that previously stayed In jurong west will frequent this store often.

This $19 portion maybe not enough for 2, Next time get $25 for 2 pax.

No garlic or chicken rice chilli provided here. Only chilli paid and soya sauce.

PSA The place is pretty hard to find, it's a small kopitiam

Surprisingly it's not very oily, which is usually the case for claypot rice. It's got a good crunch, but there's some hard chew afterwards if you keep chewing. So best to get the medium portion to share between two so your jaw doesn't get tired, yet everyone gets to have nice crust

PSA Call ahead for them to start making early

It really is quite tiny, the ingredients were average, but the chicken is superb. It's so incredibly tender, and the soft gooey sauce just enhanced that even more. It goes with more rice than you'd expect. I'll talk about the curst in the next post

But this is definitely worth a try, even if you don't stay nearby. Probably the best in the west, if you don't count new lucky as west

Absolutely gorgeous.

The pig liver were thickly sliced yet the cook was perfect, it's tender with a little bit of bounce. Miles away from the powdery nonsense elsewhere. If you close your eyes there's really no way to tell that it's pig liver if you never had this style before

It comes drenched in a slightly spicy sauce that works so well. Further it's not very salty so you can eat it by itself too, or with claypot rice, or however you want really

Must try, it's exceptional

Think this claypot rice is really worth it trip to the west. Ordered a medium one (abt 5 small bowls) for ($15), able to feed 3 pax. The claypot comes with lupcheong, salted fish and chicken. The chicken is tender and not drying at all while the salted fish adds a different fragrance taste to the rice.
Must try their pig liver dish ($8) !!! It’s cooked to the perfect softness, people who doesn’t eat pig liver, it’s really worth the try! 😋👍🏻