Tony Johor Kaki Travels for Food · Heritage · Culture · History

Adventurous Culinary Traveler's Blog with 65 million+ reads 📧 johorkaki@gmail.com

San Xi Hainanese Chicken Rice @ Bendemeer FC 🐔 三喜海南鸡饭

San_Xi_Hainanese_Chicken_Rice_Bendemeer_三喜海南鸡饭

San Xi Chicken Rice popular with residents living around Bendemeer Food Centre serve a tender, juicy chicken with a sweet savoury sauce, nutty aromatic greasy rice, nice chili and ginger sauce, and excellent soup. All at an affordable, competitive price.

Stall name: San Xi Hainanese Chicken Rice 三喜海南鸡饭


Address: #01-53 Bendemeer Market & Food Centre, 29 Bendemeer Road, Singapore 330029


Hours: 10:00am - 3:00pm



San_Xi_Hainanese_Chicken_Rice_Bendemeer_三喜海南鸡饭

While stalking Bendemeer Market & Food Centre, I noticed that San Xi Hainanese Chicken Rice always have a long queue, especially during lunch time.

San_Xi_Hainanese_Chicken_Rice_Bendemeer_三喜海南鸡饭

Stalking them, I noted that they prepare a lot of birds everyday, both poached and deep fried.

But despite their popularity with locals, San Xi have a very low social media profile - there is hardly any mention of them online.

San_Xi_Hainanese_Chicken_Rice_Bendemeer_三喜海南鸡饭

Two of us, we ordered a set with lower quarter cut. This set of chicken, rice, beansprout and soup, all for $8. The picture of the set on the menu showed a plate of green vegetables but I was given beansprout instead (which is OK 👌 for me). (We had food from several other stalls before this.)

San_Xi_Hainanese_Chicken_Rice_Bendemeer_三喜海南鸡饭

First things first - the chicken came chopped in big chunks which I like. The flesh was tender and juicy, the skin was smooth. The chicken felt slightly chilled as it was dunked in cold water. I can taste a bit of chicky sweetness in the meat and juice.

San_Xi_Hainanese_Chicken_Rice_Bendemeer_三喜海南鸡饭

The chicken came splashed with a sweet savoury aromatic oily sauce. The sloshy sauce smothered the chicken and pooled at the bottom of the plate.

The rather robust sauce interfered a bit with the chicken's natural sweetness. Not the way I like it, but I do understand many people prefer their chicken this way.
 
San_Xi_Hainanese_Chicken_Rice_Bendemeer_三喜海南鸡饭

The chicken was set on a mat of crunchy juicy sweet blanched beansprout.

San_Xi_Hainanese_Chicken_Rice_Bendemeer_三喜海南鸡饭

I like their rice because the grains are good quality, tender-nutty, well greased and infused with savoury flavours over the rice's natural sweetness. If you like your rice soft, you may find San Xi's rice a little firm. Personally, I like the rice texture and flavour but felt it was a little on the too greasy side.

San_Xi_Hainanese_Chicken_Rice_Bendemeer_三喜海南鸡饭

I like their ginger for its mild heat. Their chili is good too - savoury sweet sourish with a spicy hot aftertaste.

San_Xi_Hainanese_Chicken_Rice_Bendemeer_三喜海南鸡饭

The complimentary soup was excellent - sweet savoury from old cucumber, red date, carrot, wolfberry, chicken feet, etc. The soup has good body from the dissolved collagen from the chicken feet.

San_Xi_Hainanese_Chicken_Rice_Bendemeer_三喜海南鸡饭

We enjoyed our lunch at San Xi Hainanese Chicken Rice though, I am not a big fan of copious amounts of assertive tasting sauce on my poached chicken. But, a lot of folks like it this way.

Next time, I shall try their fried chicken.

(San Xi has another outlet at Eunos Crescent food centre but I don't know how the stalls are related.)

Other top choices you can try at Bendemeer Food Centre 👈 click


Written by Tony Boey on 11 Apr 2021 

No comments:

Post a Comment

All comments submitted with genuine identities are published