![]() The wok-fried rice noodles were tossed with prawn, scallop, squid, Chinese sausage and crispy silverfish in a sweet and slightly spicy soya sauce. This wasn't bad but there are at least dozen other chicken dishes that I would rather have.Ĭhar Kway Teow ($98) - Another favorite Singaporean dish of mine. As usual, it was accompanied by their homemade chili, ginger and dark soya sauce on the side.įor me, Hainanese chicken is one of the most overrated dish in the whole wide world. Mandarin chicken rice ($128) - Chatterbox's world famous Hainanese chicken rice served with boiled chicken, fragrant rice and chicken soup. Some places made the carrot cakes hard like frozen custard but these were soft and moist with lots of flavors and textures (from the egg, chives etc.). Only a handful of places did it right in Hong Kong - Satay Inn (沙嗲軒), Café Malacca (馬來一菜館) and Hainan Shaoye (海南少爺). ![]() Pan-fried carrot cake ($78) - One of my favorite dishes from Singapore, pan-fried carrot cake with prawn, egg and preserved radish tossed in dark soya sauce (Some places have a different version tossed in white soya sauce). The spicy (and mushy) fish cake didn't have particularly nice texture and you serve them on those awful pancakes. Otah-otah ($58) - Malay-style pan-fried spicy fish cake served with some soft pancakes. In case you haven't heard, Chatterbox was supposed to have the best Hainanese chicken rice in Singapore, although in recent years, a few other restaurants have taken over that elusive title. But somehow Jelloman made some special arrangements with my in-laws (they didn't mind to wait in the lineup) and fast forward to around 40 minutes later, we finally got our table. Before we even got started, I was getting ready to throw in the white towel. We were told by the Restaurant Manager that it's going to take about an hour for our turn. While I'm a fan of Singaporean food, I'm no fan of long lineups. No, I'm not much of a fan of Hainanese chicken rice but there are other dishes that interest me. So, I was naturally overjoyed when I first found out that Chatterbox, the famed restaurant from Mandarin Orchard Singapore (don't fall for the same trap I did many years ago thinking this is a Mandarin Oriental Hotel coz it's not!) is opening a café at the recently opened K11 Musea in Tsim Sha Tsui. Working for two Singaporean bosses in more than a decade likely had something to do with it. I always have a thing for Singaporean food deep in my heart.
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