As a chicken lover I had to try this new place for chicken because on the
reviews one of their chicken sounded attractive.
I was intrigued by the
golden chicken mentioned in the previous reviews which had cheese and salted egg
yolk.
When I got there, it was quite early so there was only two
customers dining there.
The kitchen end had glass panels so you could see the
chefs preparing the food.
The chairs were quite
nice and reminded me of garden chairs in the UK.
The restaurant had a nice
high ceiling too.
Basically they serve
chicken and there are three main types: herb roasted, golden chicken, spicy
chicken.
It reminded me of
Heung Plus Chicken at North Point.
Anyway I ordered two
chicken sets: the golden chicken and the spicy chicken, one with vegetable rice
and the other with "silver silk
vermicelli"
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golden chicken:
The chicken was nice and
tender and the chicken skin was crispy with some slight fat under the
surface.
It tasted nice but I couldn't quite taste the egg yolk or the
cheese.
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spicy chicken:
As mentioned on the
previous review, it was not spicy but the chicken was also nice and
tender.
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vegetable rice:
The rice on its own was
really nice, it was very garlicky and fragrant.
Each grain of rice was evenly
coated with chicken oil.
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Vermicelli:
The broth for this was
quite salty, however the vermicelli was not really "Silver thread" because I
have seen thinner strands of vermicelli
before.
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As a newly opened shop, I felt that
the staff should have recommended which chicken was the best and what they are
made with, especially the golden chicken because I only knew that it had cheese
from reading the reviews.
I did not try the herb chicken so I asked about
it and the captain seemed agitated about the question and just kept answering
"usual herbs".
I was quite baffled by that attitude because this is the
time when restaurants love to brag about how wonderful their food is and how
famous their chef is.
I noticed the chicken bun so asked about that and
the guy said the bun was from Sai Kung.
It was difficult to comprehend what
the chicken bun looked like so I ordered that as well.
I tried to ask further
about the SaiKung bun because I wasn't sure if I heard him say it was from the
HK Sai Kung or the Vietnamese Saigon as they serve Vietnamese coffee as
well.
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Chicken bun:When the bun
arrived, I realised it was similar to the crispy bun. There are two major
bakeries in SK, one is SK bakery which is Chinese style and the other nice one
is Mushroom Bakery, so I hope it was from Mushroom bakery.
The plate that it was
served on was a small square plate which made it difficult to handle. If the
plate was round it might have been easier to handle.
The chicken in the bun
was really nice and it was the thigh meat without the bone. It was grilled with
herbs so I ended up trying the herbs one as well.
However I felt that there
was too much onions and it tasted more prominent than the chicken.
The bread was crispy on
the outside and soft on the inside.
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After
paying the bill, the captain was not so secretive and told us that their chef
was from Red Star which was great!
