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| - I've been on a quest for Singaporean Chicken Rice (aka Hoinam aka Hainan Chicken).
Phoenix has been in my sight lines for a while now, but haven't had much time lately. But over the holidays I happened to be in the neighourhood running some errands, and decided to pull in going solo.
It was an ominous start as a lady who was behind me decided to barge by me while I was approaching the hostess desk at the last second to leave her name. I was equally pissed that the hostess saw this move and decided to do nothing. They had a table for this lady and her party of 2 and I had to wait. It was the Christmas holidays, I decided to let it pass and not make a scene.
15 minutes later seeing another table of 2 go through, I stepped up and said I'd been here for a while now. And wouldn't you know it, they "found" me a spot right away.
Saw the menu, but I came for the Chicken Rice.
After some more crappy service, I finally got it served. It was underwhelming to say the least. The texture just isn't as silky smooth and slick like great Chicken Rice should be. The ginger sauce was fairly bland, and this was just plain rice. I expect Chicken rice rice, to have been made with the broth the chicken is made from and explode with flavour.
This was like going on a date that a friend had been hyping. "She may not be the hottest thing, but very cute with a good personality", however when you meet her you realize she's way older and about 20 pounds heavier than you expected. And her personality? Just rude.
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