Underated White Chicken
Chicken at a Noodle Restaurant? No Kidding!Now the problem is this. Yee Cheong Yuen is a Noodle Restaurant, so some people may not think of it as kosher white chicken (Pak Cham Kai). So most don't immediately associate chicken rice with YCY as readily as they would with the other famous chicken rice places.
Heavenly White ChickenThe chicken is always served cool so that the skin is crunchy and there is that layer of gelatin just under the skin. Somehow, the flesh of the chicken is full of flavor and has just got the right amount of umami and saltiness. They also pour a beautiful oyster and seseme sauce over the chicken.
I don't usually eat chicken rice chilli except when I am at this shop. The chilli is not overly spicy and its got just the right balance of tang and saltiness to it. They also provide a very authentic dark soy sauce and minced ginger.
Heaven is a piece of thigh meat with chilli, ginger and thick soy sauce. Put the whole thing in your mouth and POW!! Cool tender flesh, crunchy skin, smooth gelatin, tangy, spicy, savoury, gingery flavours all combined to give that SHIOK!! feeling.
I really can't comment about the rice cos I usually eat hor fun. So those hard core chicken RICE people can judge the rice for themselves.
ConclusionIf you are looking for the best white chicken in Singapore, you gotta give this one a try before making judgement.
4.5/5 It almost doesn't get better then this!!
Yee Cheong Yuen Noodle Restaurant
31 Lorong Liput
Holland Village
6468 7737
$10 for half chicken
Update: 2 Jan 2008
Yee Cheong Yuen has been renamed Yi Bao (Ipoh) and has undergone a makeover. The food is still much the same. Chicken still smooth and shiok!
7 comments:
Woah! Rexic here! Looks like I just have to try this chicken! Looks great! Hehe! Cheers, protein-and-carb-lover! ;)
one of the best i've eaten is evertop, now at clementi, formerly of tanglin halt. its also halal n prepared by hainanese cooks, not like the bland stuff u get at banquet food courts.... finally muslims can appreciate fantastic white chicken rice.....
Dear Chicken lice, Can you let me have the address of this Muslim chicken rice stall. Someone mentioned Clementi Ave 2 but you know the block nos?
this shop has closed down. now i will never know what it tastes like. :(
Is this true?? That the shop has closed down!?
Hey foodies: The Yee Cheong Yuen joint has undergone an extreme makeover recently and now looks nothing like the photo Leslie took in 2006. Any idea if the food quality has changed? I first ate there as a kid when a plate of kaiseehorfun went for $1.50, so I'd be interested to know if things have changed since the physical changes to the outlet.jbspiy
Just ate there last week. Same management, different name. It is now called Yi Bao. Still my fav chicken and hor fun place.
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