Price: $
Cravingness: ★☆☆☆☆
I went all the way to Amoy Plaza's Pak Dong Hainan Chicken as it claims to offer "authentic" Hainan Chicken. I checked the reviews which was quite positive and promising, yet you should never trust anyone's taste bud but yours.
Boneless Hainan Chicken
I like how the chicken was de-boned, making it very easy to consume. The chicken were smooth and tender but was also flat in texture. The skin was fat and aromatic. The sauces were horribly tasted, the red sauce was weirdly sour and the black sauce was sweet but watery. The chicken rice was not pleasant either, the rice grain were flat and stuck with each other. How could they call them authentic? I had Hainan Chicken in 5 different restaurants when I was in Singapore and none of them tasted like what I just had today. Don't claim something authentic if you couldn't live up with the standard.
Pak Dong Curry with Pork
We were surprised by the portion, it was gigantic! The curry looked a bit pity but the pork was of generous amount. The pork was actually delicious, the battered was deep fried to give a crispy texture and withhold the pork's juiciness within. However the pork itself was bland, it had to be taken with the curry sauce to give some taste.
Pak Dong Hainan Chicken 栢檔去骨海南雞飯
Shop G234-237, Phase 2, Amoy Plaza, 77 Ngau Tau Kok Road, Kowloon Bay
香港九龍灣牛頭角道77號淘大商場二期地下G234-237號舖
☏ 2305 9983
Opening Hours: Mon - Sun: 11.30am - 10.30pm
Do give NanXiang Chicken Rice in Hunghom a try.
ReplyDeleteIt is actually from Singapore - but I liked the HK outlet better than the ones I went to in Singapore.
They are one of the remaining shops using real chicken fat to fry the rice. The HK version comes bone-on though, which is authentically Hainanese.
So far none of the Chicken Rices were up to this standard for me, not even Grand Hyatt's cafe (And that's like $220 a serving lol!) :P
Read your review just now, getting really hungry :( I just recently heard about Grand Hyatt's Cafe's chicken rice! I better try both and see if the $220 worths it, I don't find chatterbox worth the price though (coz the local ones are good enough.)
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