Hainanese Chicken Rice Series in Singapore: EP01 - Mian Ji Fan (Serangoon)
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- Опубліковано 8 січ 2024
- Dubbed the "Queen of Chicken Rice" by none other than Uncle Roger himself, my recent trip to Singapore was an exhilarating journey of taste and tradition. I took your recommendations to heart and embarked on a culinary adventure across the city-state, from high-end eateries to hidden gems.
In this brand-new series is dedicated to Singapore's national dish - Hainanese Chicken Rice, where I get to learn more about this iconic dish.
This episode kicks off with a visit to "Mian Ji Fan Chicken Rice" in Serangoon - I apologise in advance for any mispronunciations, it's not my first language!
Here, I savoured a delightful (medium) portion of steamed chicken rice priced at $6.50, complete with free soup, a variety of self-service sauces, and achar pickles. This meal was not just delicious but an excellent start to my series.
I'd love to hear from you! Drop a comment if you have a favourite spot for chicken rice in Singapore, or if you've visited any of the places I mention in the video.
If you know someone planning a trip to Singapore or living there, do share this video with them!
Stay tuned for more episodes where I'll be exploring more of Singapore's vibrant hawker food scene, bringing you along for each delicious discovery.
Location:
Mian Ji Fan Chicken Rice
153 Serangoon North Ave 1, #01-512, Singapore 550153.
Rated: SHIOK!
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Visit Auntie Liz restaurant for her Chicken Rice :
Mei mei, Borough Market, SE1 9AF
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Excellent review, Auntie Liz, and I enjoyed your Momma's comments. Well done!!!
My favorite chicken rice from my hood. I'm glad you went back and managed to try some!
Yes my fav chicken rice . hidden gem and very local place you have discovered
I ate chicken & rice for lunch almost everyday at school, it was so good!
Travelled to Singapore back in 2016 & I’ve never had food quite as amazing as when I was over there! Would love to go back. Quality Video! 😁👌👏
So good!
Nice! Will be visiting Singapore in about a month and was looking for nice food recommendations.
This is great! Also, cheeky cheeky lol 4:16
Thanks & looking forward to the orher vlogs.
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I usually watch your videos with my kids (my son's desperate to visit Borough Market 😂) so looking forward to seeing more episodes in this series!
Awesome! Thank you! Let me know and you and your family will visit and il try be there
@@AuntieLiz Thanks, will do!
I luv this idea Chef!! 😃
So glad!
This stall has kept its prices really low over the years, a favourite of my family
Beautiful dish and a beautiful lady. Can't get any better
20 years ago there were 3 CR vendors in katong near the shopping centre, each one famous for the chicken, the rice and the other the chilli sauce
Nice! I always go for the rice first and U love it when the rice is aromatic, glistening and has that nice light toasty brown colour. It a sign that they use the chicken stock, garlic, ginger and the oil they fried the garlic and ginger in to cook it😊
Great review by Auntie Liz. 👍👍
Thank you! 🤗
makes me want to go to SG right this minute 😇
I'm was happiest when Auntie Liz stopped using the fork to eat rice. LOL
My go-to is Sin Ming Chicken Rice. Rice is ok lah but the chilli, chicken and soup... Damn shiok lor!
I tried the banmian store beside before as well! Equally good!!!!
Bon appetit auntie Liz enjoy 😉👍👍
Shi Mei Chicken Rice!!!!!!! Best chicken rice ever
Huge fan of Hainanese chicken rice. Here in Toronto, Canada, we make do with whatever restaurants here can offer. Beggar can't be chooser. 😄
I prefer the chicken deboned, else I feel like I have to eat around the chicken.
My favourite chicken rice is still 亨记 at Chinatown hawker although its more on the salty side
Liz Chef! thanks for sharing and a great idea for a series! That looked delicious 😋
Just an idea for the future (please don't think it's a criticism) it'd be great to mic up your mother as well, as your sound was spot on but her comments were a bit hard to hear! Hope you had a lovely trip! 🙂😋😎❤
I know! Thanks for the feedback! It was the first video series where ive been recording/filming solo (usually my husband does this for me) - so i didnt know how to have a dual receiver but i do now!!
@@AuntieLiz Thanks Liz, you're welcome & thank you for your feedback, glad that every day is still a school day! 🙂❤
Oh, back in sg? I always eat at boon chiang chicken rice (301 Punggol Central) after I have moved to Punggol. Quite good. Else I'll eat at Victor Famous Fried Chicken Wing Rice and Hainanese Chicken Rice (638 Veerasamy Road), get the fried chicken wings, taste like corona chicken (if u know what it is 😅)
I eat their chicken rice everyday ❤
Something I noticed in Singapore was that the food portions were quite small.... but everything was so delicious that I never felt hungry. That and the huge amount of walking I do there, mean that I always lose quite a bit of weight every time I go there, but never feel hungry or tired!!!
Generally speaking the food portions in Asia are smaller compared to the food portions in north America especially USA.
On the contrary most asians will find food portions from the western countries huge lol. 1 portion can feed 2 or 3.
...Shrink-flation bro i am a local , and i feel its getting rediculous
I be interested to see how Liz chicken rice compares 😅
Apparently my friend came back and tried some of the famous ones and she felt overall tian tian at Maxwell is still her favorite. But they don’t serve the broth
Maybe il continue the series in London or all around the world!!
Chicken rice has 2 major "styles," one uses the chicken broth to cook the rice, and one that does not.
The feel of the umami can be contrasting. Some are in your face. Wow. I prefer the subtle ones that grow on you, and you can not stop eating.
Then you have the chili sauce, some more bite, some more refreshing. Some has ginger mixed in. My personal are those separated and has chicken oil and scallions mixed in, more "Cantonese style."
Comes to chicken, you have the lean chewy ones, using kampong chicken and the tender melts-in-your-mouth fat chicken.
Then there are those able to have the fats under the skin, like jello, the ultimate.
Since H1N1 epidermic, it is hard to find chicken that are cooked al dente, pink at the bone and when they chop it, the marrow can be still red.
Texture of their rice, some are soft and flavourful, while others are individually grains, almost like risotto chewy.
And you have the innards, liver and gizzard must be cooked to perfection.; sadly no longer are the intestines available.
There is no "perfect" chicken rice, just one that fit your taste and mood. Almost impossible to have a bespoke chicken rice. 😅😅
Sounds like someone knows their chicken rice 🥰👍🏼
Most often I eat Hainanese chicken rice cooked by my girlfriend's Hainanese mother. If not, we are most likely to go to Katong Mei Wei just because of its uniqueness.
One of my favourites too
I am a huge fan of chicken rice. I tried almost every recommended chicken rice in Singapore. BUT , just last year, i accidentally discovered the best chicken rice i ever had in my life. Please try Mun Fu Chicken Rice @ Cheng San Market & Cooked Food Centre. They de-bone EVERYTHING , including the tip of the wings. Please do try and let us know your thoughts on it!
P.S - Gotta go early. They sell out really fast and the queue is always long.
Added to the list thank you!!
Try Wee Kim in Yishun Park Hawker centre
Added to the list thanks!
Good morning chef Elizabeth, I'm still not able to find your blog nor was I able to find where you said you'd post the purchase information about those clear stock pots that you used in your potatoes video. 🙏
www.auntylizcooks.com/
Few years back, there was a China guy and a local Chicken Rice Stall. The hawker sold him S$1.80 daily meal set to help him penny wise. Then they paid agency fee $5000 before landed any poorly paid labourer jobs in Sg.
Try 1) Nam Kee Chicken Rice (Upp Thomson Road), 2) Fook Seng GoldenHill Chicken Rice (Rumah Tinggi)
Tried them. They are really not up to standard at all. Anything else better?
其实可以介绍一些平常家里餐桌上会吃到的菜，而不是选择这种外面餐馆才会做的菜，就比如很多外国人都知道蛋炒饭这道菜，可实际上蛋炒饭一般在家里不会去做
Please try Hong Feng Chicken Rice at the hawker centre @ Blk 505, Jurong West St 52!! Their white steamed chicken is the best that I've tested so far. Even the breast meat tastes tender and succulent. Their roast chicken is also much more fragrant and tastier than what I've tried before from other stalls. You've gotta review their chicken!! 🤤🤤🤤
Nice! Going to add to my list for the next round trip
@@AuntieLiz thanks!!
@@AuntieLiz oh, and their white steamed chicken is usually sold out by 1pm or earlier! Best to get there before 12pm!
Auntie Liz is cute 😊
I developed a five-point rating system:
5. 6:30 one- the absolute minimum that a dish should be. It covers all the bases, but that's it. Eat something, or somewhere, else.
4. 3:15 one- a bit above ordinary. It ticks all the boxes but there's a little something extra- good wok hei in a CKT, for example. Will probably be the stall's signature dish or the best offering of any dish within a given hawker centre.
3. Shiok- at least in the top 10 to 15% of places offering this dish.
2. Damn shiok- one of the top 10 places on the Little Red Dot. You tell your friends about it, but no one else, so you don't spoil it by making the place too popular and degrading the product by serving too many customers.
1. DDMT- die die must try. Absolutely authentic in every way from ingredients to the method of preparation. You would travel across the island for this dish. Two hours on the MRT, plus costs, for a $10.00 barbeque stingray or $7.00 CKT? Relak lah! Damn worth it.
Love this 🤣
@@AuntieLiz Thank you.
4:16 😏🫡 lmao, Chef!!!
Former master chef 😂😂😂
Auntie, as an American, I don't know how to use the knife and spoon combination. We us a fork in the left hand, and a knife in the right hand. I'm learning from you.
Yong Chai Chicken Rice, 5 Coronation Rd
Let face it, singapore's chicken rice is cook and manned by Malaysian
Can you do Singlish?❤
What is the red chili sauce you usually get with Chicken Rice - and how do I make it myself at home? :)
Il add to my website recipe collection x
As a local here, it's wrong when your mum says Singaporean don't queue for things. Queuing is one of our favourite pass time, not just for good things, possibly for anything.
No. I'm a locally born Singaporean. I don't believe in queuing for anything unless its absolutely necessary. It doesn't make sense for me to join the crowd.
There's different style of chicken rice .. May be from this chef perspective, we can know more varieties of chicken rice... 豉油雞 燒雞 醬油雞 炸雞
Interesting connect.. how do you mean different? Keen to learn :)
Anyone else think that Auntie Liz looks like S.coups from SEVENTEEN? 😂
Wish Auntiz Liz can talk in Singlish.
I'm still getting my head around the differences between "Lah", "Leh" and "Lor". Can? Cannot!
can, but be difficult for Americans not to understand lah. Gotta be atas
@@AuntieLizYa lor, but it would be shiok when an ang Mo talks in Singlish.
Where’s ur next video ?
Editing in progress
@@AuntieLiz looking forward 👍
Now go back to your restaurant and fix your own chicken rice
Singapore took a Malaysian originated favourite and called it their own national dish?! 🤣🤣🤣
HAINANESE Chicken Rice. Last I checked Hainan was neither in Singapore OR Malaysia.
Hi from Kulai.
But aren't all Malaysian dishes stolen from Indonesia?
You don't even have good Hainanese chicken rice in msia and you want to call it msia originated favourite? 🤡
@@Neojhun it’s not a thing in Hainan. It got famous in Malaysia and Singapore then Hainan (China) took it back as their own. The closest ‘thing’ was wenchang chicken. Arguable which originated first among most people’s knowledge but Singapore is notorious for taking Malaysian favourites and calling their own :)
Dun be like that la.. not nice. It’s okay, they can proud with their chicken rice. Malaysia can proud with idiot najib with his 1mdb scandals 😅
This is a bit of a boring dish. Chicken and rice is hardly a well balanced meal.