I have always had a quest to try and taste the best. Hainanese Chicken Rice (HCR) edition this time. I have read about one particular stall that most food bloggers and even a chef cum Tv Host have agreed to this. So we headed to a particular hawker center but too bad, we came in too late. They ran out of chickens. So I will save about that for later. Bee and I just had to settle to another chicken rice stall very close to the one I am referring to. Normally I wouldn’t try a stall just because of it’s proximity but this one has a long queue too. I don’t know if that’s because people find their chicken rice as good too, or they just settle to this one because the best one is closed already.
Maxwell Hainanese Chicken Rice stall has a pretty exterior and long queues of people that’s why we got curious and decided to try it as well. They are the only stall with long queue that night.
The photos in their stall sure look appetizing.
I am a roasted HCR girl. One of the criteria for good HCR for locals is tender meat/flesh, like smooth and silky. And you can see in these photo that the meat is silky soft.
This cost SGD 3.00. This is good value for money for the amount of meat in there.
They say the way to eat chicken rice is you have to mix all 3 condiments together. I tried that and hmmmn… let’s just say I’m used to garlic-ginger-chili sauce only. No sweet soya sauce for me.
This is for Bee. Charsiew and roasted pork for him at only SGD 3.50. It’s yummy and value for money, he was happy with this. Although it’s bought from a different stall heheh.
Extra tiny cup of rice for him.
The verdict for this chicken rice? It’s ok. It’s not bad but not so good for me to go back at this food center for this stall. The chicken is smooth and silky which is good, the rice is alright, not too oily, but the let down for me was the chili. It was hot, but not hot enough. And there is just something missing in the chili.
Kinda look like Old Airport Road food center.
Photo: lifestylewiki.com
Outside it looks like this.
We walked back to MRT and I took some photos of the pretty city lights. I love how bright it is here especially at night.
And another one.
3- second “traffic” hahaha!
No need to hurry. Have 7 seconds left. And drivers can’t hit you hahaha especially if you’re in ped xing.
There is a Filipino restaurant in this row and I know that before they used to offer buffet. I’m not sure now.
I learned one technique in photography recently that’s why these night shots aren’t blurry. I learned not to breathe.
Will definitely go back to try the best Hainanese Chicken Rice, hopefully next time it is still open.
