My Sunday was low-key and calm. I reserved the whole morning for the Sunday service. First things first.
My companion senior, Rea and I had lunch at Sheng Kee, one of the food venues inside the Raffles Shopping Center. I bought water and cereal from the Raffles Market Place, the supermarket inside the shopping center which reminds me a lot of our own Rustan's back in Manila.
I spent the whole afternoon making up for lost blogging times :) When my tummy finally grumbled at about past eight in the evening, I headed out and looked for Hainanese chicken rice. I didn't have the courage to try out the famed Yet Con along Purvis Street due to the mixed reviews I've read from various blogs...Authentic old-school Hainanese cooking but bad customer service, tasteless chicken as compared to the modernized version at Tian Tian, no price indicated in the menu and surprise bills, and so forth.
I opted to play it safe and decided on the Hainanese chicken rice at Sin Swee Kee along Seah Street and adjacent to the Raffles Hotel.
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| Credits to http://www.hungrygowhere.com/ |
The price of the Hainanese set depends on the part of the chicken. I requested for the thigh part and the steamed version (instead of roasted). It was good enough for me. The soup was okay - no richness to it, just plain soup with a little flavor. The rice was well-cooked, not lumpy but the fragrance is not that memorable. The chicken was well-cooked with no blood oozing from the pre-cut pieces (I hate it when that happens). There were lots of the gelatinous layer clinging to the chicken which I liked. Bottles of ginger and sauce are made available if you want to add extra punch. I tried mixing these a bit with my chicken but eventually finished most of my meal with no condiments.
'Not bad and not really impressive' - that's the best that I can make of my experience. I couldn't claim to be an expert on chicken rice, as the only other Hainanese chicken standard I have in my book is based on those random breaks at Wee Nam Kee in Makati.
My tummy filled and quite satisfied, I called it a night. Tomorrow's another day and my first day at the EY Singapore office. :)
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