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.
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