Fragrance Sauce Chicken Rice & Noodles

This is another fantastic place to go if you are craving for soya sauce chicken! One of my favourite. The stall owner is a Hongkonger couple who had been living in Singapore for many years now. Of course, needless to say, they are the chef too. The husband who is the chef prepares their specialty soya sauce chicken using the soya sauce to marinate the chicken. Delicious.

Few years back, this stall was discovered by a Channel 8 Chinese TV-Entertainment Program known as "Chen Ren Zha Zhi" (translated from chinese as "Adult Magazine") where their delicious soya sauce chicken was recommended by the comperes. Back then they were located inside the Bugis Food Centre and I had been a follower of theirs since then. Due to the changes at the Bugis Food Centre, the stall moved to this coffeeshop "Hong Joo Food Centre". Despite hidden within this coffeeshop, the delicious stall still holds their niche well and fans still flock the place in search of their soya sauce chicken. The only thing that might have not been so favourable for them after their relocation is the fact that they are nestled among the so many vegetarian stalls (because of the nearby famous tourist attraction "Kwanying Goddess Temple") and some people may tend to shun them at this buddhist-vegetarian-influenced place.

In any case, i still had to go for my favourite soya sauce chicken rice despite the vegetarian-buddhist environment! One of the thing that I like about this stall is the well boiled Cantonese soup that comes together with the chicken rice. They sometimes serve groundnut boiled in papaya soup or blacknut soup. All of them are nutritious soup and the best part is that they are serve together as part of the meal. The couple also used to offer a very big serving of rice so that customers dont need to fork out more money to order more plates of rice. Very thoughtful! However, over time especially due to the hike of rice price then, this practice seems slowly fading. For a 2-person meal, it only costs S$8 in total.

All in all, the chicken they serve here is soft, tender and delicious. Very well done, well marinated in the genuine black soya sauce. Their soya sauce is specially brewed and they are poured over the meat of the chicken for it to fully absorb the sauce thus, gaining the goodness and taste of it. All the chicken served are boneless as they will de-bone it for you. The soya sauce tastes great and the chilli is good too. Not only does the presentation look good, the food tastes just as great (just like its chinese name) Rice is also very fragrant, need I say more? I need 2 or 3 plates of rice every time I go there. I dont know about you ...

Fragrance Sauce Chicken Rice & Noodles is at Hong Joo Food Centre, Rowell Centre, Singapore.