Tea Smoked Chicken @ Eastern House of Seafood Marymount MRT 茶熏鸡

You know, in restaurants or hawker stalls, we can easily get poached, fried, or soya sauce chicken. Sometimes, we can get roast chicken and salt baked chicken but tea smoked chicken, so far I know only Eastern House of Seafood serve it. (Please share, if you know of other places in Singapore or Johor.)

Restaurant name: Eastern House of Seafood

Address: 37 Jalan Pemimpin, MAPEX building, #B1-02, Singapore 577177 (doorstep of Marymount MRT station)

Tel: 9150 8172

Hours: 9:00am - 10:00pm (opens at 10am on Sat & Sun)

Tea smoked chicken doesn't taste like poached, fried, roast, soya sauce or salt baked chicken. The flesh is soft-tender, juicy like the best poached chicken and skin is slippery smooth. What sets it apart is robust savouriness, pronounced smokey taste with gentle sweetness. It wowed me because it is delicious yet so unlike any other chicken that I have tasted before.

Half a bird like this costs $18 and a whole bird $36 at Eastern House of Seafood. This is a reasonable price considering that tea smoked chicken is time consuming and relatively tedious to make, so it is harder to produce in scale. It is cooked by steaming, then smoked in a covered wok with stir fried tea leaves and rock salt. Its amazing taste makes it totally worth it (despite costing more than other types of chicken).

We had this tea smoked chicken among several other dishes as we were a group of 5 and Eastern House of Seafood is a zhi char restaurant with a thick menu 😄 

It struck me that we can pair this tea smoked chicken with rice or noodles to make a simple but good work day lunch. I am thinking even just pairing it with plain white rice will make a great alternative to Hainanese chicken rice ad nauseum. After all, Eastern House of Seafood is super conveniently located at the door step of Marymount MRT station.

 

When you step out of Exit B, look to your left. MAPEX building at Jalan Pemimpin is right across Bishan Street 21. Eastern House of Seafood is at B1, visible from street level.

Eastern House of Seafood have many more dishes 👈 click

       

                     

             

             

               

               

             

           

           

           

                         

           

             

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Written by Tony Boey on 2 Dec 2021