2 posts tagged “malay”
In recent years, ayam penyet (a dish with its origins from Indonesia), otherwise known as smashed fried chicken/ flattened fried chicken has been gaining wider coverage (newspapers and magazines) and distribution (more outlets). Previously, before I tried the dish I was always trying to imagine how it will look like. Somehow the image of something along the line of a smashed watermelon will come to mind. But nah... its not like that. In fact, its like this.
As you can see, its not horribly mangled. In fact, the purpose of flattening the chicken is to tenderise the meat and let the flavour seep in better. At Waroeng Penyet, their ayam penyet is marinated with Java special sauce and then fried to perfection. No ayam penyet is complete without its side kick - the spicy and hot till your tastebuds are on fire sambal chilli.
Lucky Plaza has a famous stall that sell this dish but I think this is even nicer than theirs. Because unlike the Lucky Plaza one, this stall has managed to fry the chicken skin till it is most fantastically crispy and yet being able to retain the moistness and flavour of the chicken meat itself. When you use your fork and spoon to tear the meat away from the bone you can even hear the crunch when the meat and skin comes off.
I would say, this is the best malay style fried chicken that I have ever eaten in my life.
Their chilli is crazy. Its so spicy that I thought my tastebuds were about to catch fire. But luckily I have a cup of Lime juice at my side to sooth my tastebuds at the same time. But do I like the chilli even though its quite spicy? You bet I do. For people who don't usually have chilli with any of their food, you may curse the chilli here, but for others, you'd love it.
Best ayam penyet by far. But prices are also steeper than the rest. The ayam penyet here is $5.50 and rice is at an additional charge of $0.50. There's a new outlet at Changi Village too!
Waroeng Penyet
Block 81, #01-638
Marine Parade Central (Opposite Marine Parade Polyclinic)
Singapore 440081
Tel: 63441235
Adam Road Hawker Centre is most famous for their nasi lemak, but today we're not gonna talk about that. Since nasi lemak can be quite subjective and I don't eat nasi lemak.
There is a prawn noodles stall there which is quite prominent. Crabs filled with a salivating amount of orange and yellow roe and big, fat and juicy prawns stare out at you from within the stall display. They serve pork ribs prawn noodles too, but I have not thought of it till now, but maybe you can order pork ribs prawn noodles with crab! I bet that will be the most expensive bowl of noodles you will ever buy at a hawker centre. It sounds like a dream combination though ;)
Their soup is the clear kind and while there is prawn flavour to the soup, its not strong enough for me. The kuay teow that I ordered with the prawn noodles is at the bottom and its the thinner kind. Having such big prawns are a major plus factor for me and I will say that this dish is above average. I would say the prawn noodles stall at Lavender Food Centre has the best soup. Just mentioning it is enough to make me want a bowl now.
The crab version is the same. Just no prawns inside the soup that is cooked with prawns. The treasure you are looking for is underneath its shell. You should go discover it yourself. It will burst any cholesterol meter. But it will not hurt once in a while. Haha. It costs something along $8 to $10 for a bowl with half crab. One full crab will be almost twice the price.
There is another stall which is quite good. It only specialises in Mee soto and mee siam! This is a Malay stall and it has a red sign board. For me, this is the best mee soto in Singapore. The soup is damn tasty and satisfying. The chicken meat soft and tender enough. Extremely good for rainy days or when you are looking for some savoury soup.
Alternatively, you can just order the chicken and soup without the noodles and that will be fantastic too.
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