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Zheng Swee Kee

Restaurant β€’ Singaporean restaurant

😠 This restaurant is located at Burlington square. The roast chicken tastes so bad and the portion size is disappointingly small, $10 can buy twice as much at the nearby Albert hawker center. The waitress resting at the counter keeps scratching her foot, after five minutes she goes to serve another ta... People often mention chicken, rice, Chicken, good, soup, sauce, Hainanese, Rice, taste, tender,


Address

175 Bencoolen St, #01-34, Singapore 189649

Website

zhengsweekee.getz.co

Contact

+65 6988 7734

Price rating

$$ $$

Rating on Google Maps

3.50 (327 reviews)

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  • 1/5 Nicole C. 2 years ago on Google
    This restaurant is located at Burlington square. The roast chicken tastes so bad and the portion size is disappointingly small, $10 can buy twice as much at the nearby Albert hawker center. The waitress resting at the counter keeps scratching her foot, after five minutes she goes to serve another table. Yuck.
    6 people found this review helpful πŸ‘

  • 4/5 Chi Hong H. 1 year ago on Google β€’ 263 reviews
    Surprised at the less than 4 stars. The chicken rice was tasty, the meat was tender and succulent. The pork ribs king was enjoyable. The service from the young staff was ernest. The owner started hammering on some chair legs while we were eating, quite blissfully ignorant of the racket he was creating but he stopped with good cheer when we let him know. Perhaps the ambience could be improved. Overall, I'm likely to be back again.
    3 people found this review helpful πŸ‘

  • 4/5 Wang Teck H. 5 years ago on Google
    Above average. The best part of the dish is it’s chilli. The rice while quite nice is lacking a little more flavor and oil. The chicken is pretty good but is still way off the Boon Tong Kee standard. Portion seems small for the price.
    3 people found this review helpful πŸ‘

  • 5/5 Lewis L. 11 months ago on Google β€’ 277 reviews
    Chanced upon this place while doing some IT shopping at SimLim Sq. The name sounds familiar as this is a traditional name. Chicken is good and the rice is fragrant and cooked nicely. The chilli sauce is power. Spicy and gives you a nice kick.

  • 5/5 Linh 1 year ago on Google β€’ 241 reviews
    Food are decent, not sure why this place has low reviews. All signature fried rice, seafood noodles and creamy fried chicken are good. They have outdoor comfortable and open seatings. Will come back to try other dishes. Revisits: chicken rice sets are really nice, the chicken soup tastes great, I like the roasted chicken over steamed one.

  • 5/5 Kim Wee S. 3 years ago on Google
    Between Seah Street and Purvis Street, along Beach Road, where there are multiple Hainanese Associations and Clans, there are also at least five famous Hainanese Chicken Rice besides other Hainanese eats. This is probably the real Hainanese enclave for many decades, rather than the Hainanese Food Village in Hougang and I have been fed here since I was a growing up Hainanese kid four decades ago. Hailed as the undisputed Best Hainanese Chicken Rice in the 50s to the 70s, Swee Kee was operating out of Yet Con from 1949 by the Moh Family. As a kid I remembered besides Chicken Rice by Swee Kee, they served Hainanese Steamboat and Tze Char. Since then there were many changes resulting in up to five Famous Chicken Rice along Beach Road, all unaffiliated to the Moh Family though at least two were named Swee Kee. This restaurant I visited is the older one along Seah Street, set menu for Chicken rice at $7.80 which offered a generous Kampong Chicken leg boneless, Blanched veggies, Choice of plain or chicken rice and a soup. Logically all Chicken Rice comes with a soup. I don't get why some famous stalls in Maxwell Market simply doesn't offer soup. Chicken here is tender and moist, kampong chicken offers lesser fat and more bite. Veggies is blanched just right in a light sauce, soup is light and goes well. The Chicken rice is fluffy, aromatic, light and not oily at all. Lacks a bit of ginger and its perfect. Easily a 9.5 out of 10 for me. The chilli is vinegary and spicy, ginger is a little diluted, dark soy sauce of good quality and aromatic. Try it like i do. Rice in its own, rice with dark sauce, rice with chilli and ginger, Chicken on its own, chicken with dark sauce, chicken with chilli and vinegar and dark sauce on rice. Feels the different sweet and savoury for your sweet spot. Me, I love the eventual flavour explosion of a nostalgic staple since a kid.
    2 people found this review helpful πŸ‘

  • 5/5 Nigel y. 1 year ago on Google
    Wow dam surprised to find this shop that serves KAMPUNG CHICKEN at a dam reasonable price. The white chicken, their rice, and their chilli are dam good man. The staff are also super "ON" (on the ball). Very attentive and good service. Would definitely want to come back again if there are no public smokers outside their shop. Admittedly, there was once I wanted to dine in but had to walk somewhere else because of smokers outside / quite near their entrance. Maybe they should stick a no smoking sign to deter the public from smoking outside their shop.
    2 people found this review helpful πŸ‘

  • 5/5 Trulyjohanna 1 year ago on Google β€’ 65 reviews
    I tried their Steamed, Roasted Chicken and both did not disappoint me. Lunchtime was not busy when I went there. Spent SD$16 for 2 pax.
    1 person found this review helpful πŸ‘

  • 4/5 Daniel T. 1 year ago on Google β€’ 152 reviews
    Good local joint if you're looking for local flavours. Great food, this joint is famous for their Steamed chicken rice. Also series nasi lemak and chicken carry. All with very affordable prices. What a start contrast to the posh joint opposite at Raffles Hotel Gallery. Location is convenient too. Tourists should come here and patroli here to try local flavours and eating joint.

  • 4/5 Stefan S. 6 months ago on Google β€’ 40 reviews
    Easily the best CRAB FRIED RICE in Singapore - I’ll be back for more πŸ‘Œ
    1 person found this review helpful πŸ‘

  • 3/5 T t t β€œζ–°δΈ–η•Œβ€ L. 5 months ago on Google β€’ 122 reviews
    kampong chicken is tender. Soup given is good and hot piping

  • 5/5 Tabu 6 months ago on Google β€’ 19 reviews
    The chicken rice was tasty, the meat was tender and succulent
    1 person found this review helpful πŸ‘

  • 5/5 Jacqueline O. 9 months ago on Google β€’ 16 reviews
    Delicious and one of the best and reasonably priced chicken rice in SG. The white chicken is well cooked, moist and the soup is always piping hot and the rice is fragrant and done to perfection.
    1 person found this review helpful πŸ‘

  • 5/5 Bay Yong S. 3 years ago on Google
    One of the Better Chicken Rice Stall in Singapore, rice taste very flavorful, soup got some carrot and meat inside, and their meat is super tender and bone removed easy to eat. sadly The crowd have reduce due to Covid. So Come support them~!
    1 person found this review helpful πŸ‘

  • 4/5 Howie 1 year ago on Google
    It is a small but pretty cozy restaurant,serving Chinese foods. The costs of foods are reasonable. As my attached photos, their serving sizes are OK.
    1 person found this review helpful πŸ‘

  • 5/5 y2 l. 1 year ago on Google
    Great place to have ur fish noodle craving satisfied
    1 person found this review helpful πŸ‘

  • 1/5 Yeo S. 1 year ago on Google
    The white chicken is quite mouth watering probably its oily, but as for the soup and rice are slightly salty and the tomatoe is over cooked in the soup. Overall the food is even not as good as the shop which has taken over their old premise at 25 Seah Street.
    1 person found this review helpful πŸ‘

  • 4/5 Eileen C. 6 years ago on Google
    Chanced upon this place and ordered the set for 2 to try. Chicken was good, but the star had to be the fried bean curd that came along with it. The skin was crisp on the outside and tender on the inside. Would visit again :)
    1 person found this review helpful πŸ‘

  • 5/5 Michael H. 4 years ago on Google
    Food is tasty. Cheap. Their morning glory was one of the best I ever had. It is season with salty fish. Well done. They made me pay right away, which was weird? Not sure that is customary or they got burned by other tourist. Maybe mainland chinese.... πŸ˜…. But great spot!!
    1 person found this review helpful πŸ‘

  • 4/5 Chris K. 1 year ago on Google β€’ 22 reviews
    Ordered the seafood White Bee Hoon. Take great. Was expecting the white fish to taste muddy, but it didn't. Instead it has a nice taste about it. Kudos for that. Cost of this plate was $5.50; which is not bad.

  • 1/5 Adam C. 2 months ago on Google β€’ 16 reviews New
    Terrible experience. Am writing this while still waiting for my takeaway. Waited 40 mins (still currently waiting) for two packets of beef horfun, one veg and one noodle. Like these aren't complicated dishes, restaurant wasn't full, but yet they couldn't give me my food. I see food, nope, not mine. Never coming here ever.

  • 1/5 Joseph 2 months ago on Google β€’ 7 reviews New
    Chicken very dry, wrong part of chicken given. Damn expensive. Roast chicken rice charged $10. Understand it’s new year eve, but it’s ridiculous to charge 20% for takeaway! End up 2 chicken rice and 1 soup cost $38 for takeaway!

  • 5/5 David P. 1 year ago on Google
    Ordered the tom yum. Go for fried fish option when u r here. Long waiting time but they really cook one bowl at a time. Value for money and avoid peak hours when u can.

  • 1/5 tim e. 1 year ago on Google
    To be honest, this is the most unvalue-for-money for tze char. One small plate of lemon chicken cost 14 dollars and the taste is average at best. Other places are selling 30-50% more the portion at 8-10 dollars! I wont recommend people to come here, many nicer tze char at better price better quality

  • 3/5 Nick H. 7 years ago on Google
    This was the first place I had chicken in singapore, and two local friends told me that this is a very good representative chicken that isn't as over-hyped as the well-known stands. I was fairly surprised by the chicken, to be honest. We got half soy sauce, half regular. The sweetness of the soy masked the savoriness of the chicken itself. The regular chicken just didn't taste very chicken-y and the texture was a little too gelatinous. The broth tasted of carrots, celery, and MSG - not of chicken at all The rice was cooked in a style similar to basmati. It didn't really clump together at all. The chili sauce here is pretty sweet.

  • 2/5 Alicia N. 5 years ago on Google
    Food was disappointing... We were actually looking forward and even fix a date to go with my family to have lunch .... To our dissapointment the rice is not fragrant enough and the chili sauce is watery it has flavor, but its consistency isΒ tooΒ thin, and the chicken is not even flavorful it taste just like normal steam chicken with no seasoning. I believe i can get better chicken rice anywhere. Will not visit again and will not recommend.

  • 5/5 Denny L. 1 year ago on Google
    Its not easy to find a good plate of hor fun. My favourite combo: hor fun and white kampung chicken. Hor fun got the wok hei and sauce is eggy. White kampung chicken is highly recommended. Fast and efficient service. Parking is convenient as there's ample parking lots upstairs in Burlington Square. Conveniently located within walking distance to a few MRT stations.

  • 5/5 KKT 10 months ago on Google
    Generous serving of fresh sliced fish, and fried egg πŸ‘. If someone has any other fish soup that is more fulfilling then this, pls share. 😊 Note: need to queue, fast pace turn over catering for lunch crowd.

  • 5/5 SIVODAYAN DAMOHDARAN (. 9 months ago on Google
    Great taste n value. 1 of the best chicken rice. Good service. Polite staff.

  • 3/5 Retronala 3 years ago on Google
    Overall quite nice. Took roasted chicken. Felt abit dry but still acceptable. The rice normal chicken rice. Chilli could be more spicy. What saved the night was the fried baby squids.

  • 1/5 Hanna B. 2 months ago on Google β€’ 2 reviews New
    Worst chicken rice of my life. So dry, tasteless and the skin is like plastic. Really hate wasting food but I tried my best to eat what I can, big regret.


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  • Offerings
    • βœ“οΈ Beer
    • βœ“οΈ Coffee
    • βœ“οΈ Alcohol
  • Accessibility
    • βœ“οΈ Wheelchair-accessible seating
  • Dining options
    • βœ“οΈ Lunch
    • βœ“οΈ Brunch
    • βœ“οΈ Dinner
    • βœ“οΈ Seating
    • βœ“οΈ Catering
    • βœ“οΈ Breakfast
  • Service options
    • βœ“οΈ Dine-in
    • βœ“οΈ Delivery
    • βœ“οΈ Takeaway
    • βœ“οΈ Outdoor seating

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