It's a nice, comfortable place to chill, coveniently located near Jalan Besar MRT station. We ended up eating and drinking beer slowly for four hours 😂 But, only generic brands available now lah.
Lady looked focussed but she and other staff were very friendly and cheerful.
Lion City have big round tables for bigger parties and also smaller tables for two.
The poached bird came chopped the right size - (big) chunks with skin and bones intact. Splashed with lots of dark sauce which pooled at the bottom of the plate.
Skin was smooth, tender with a slight layer of jellied fat, and meat was soft tender juicy.
The savoury dark sauce actually flattened out the subtle chicken flavour. Good, if you prefer your chicken this way. For me, next time, I will request them to serve the dark sauce in a separate bowl. I believe that without the sauce, I will be able to taste the chicken's natural sweetness better.
I like the savoury spicy chili sauce and also the ginger sauce. There was no scallion though.
So good.
There was also no dark sauce served.
I like the rice. Flavourful, aromatic and tender nutty. Not overly greasy and the grains separate easily.
Lion City have fat stubby bean sprouts which they import from Ipoh.
Lightly stir fried with savoury sauce, salted fish, stewed mushroom, chives, chili pepper.
The fat juicy bean sprouts had their tails pinched off - I appreciate it as roots taste earthy 🙏 Crunchy juicy though I prefer them just simply blanched. The savoury sauce, salted fish, etc also tended to flatten out the bean sprouts' own delicate natural sweet flavour.
But, it could be just nice for you, if you prefer not to have the subtle raw taste of bean sprouts.
"Glass" chicken feet. Glad that Lion City have this as it this dish is no longer common in Singapore.
Deboned just like a rubber glove. Could be slightly more crunchy, and could have slightly less savoury salty sauce.
Blanched chicken offal splashed with the same sauce and oil.
Nice variety of textures, natural flavours complemented the savoury sauce. Ah.... for me the sauce works well when the ingredients have similar level of intensity of flavours.
We shared a bowl of this curry chicken noodle. Just a mouthful but I will come back for this - I like the flavourful but not too lemak curry and the naturally sweet tender chicken.
Stewed pork fried bee hoon.
We tried out the hotpot (steamboat) too.
Just a sampling portion but all good quality ingredients.
The soup was tea coloured, light, savoury, I like it as l prefer this over those thick viscous collagen stock.
Good stock, quality ingredients, the result was naturally delicious.
I rate Lion City's chicken rice 7.5/10 in the Johor Kaki chicken rice rating scale.
Restaurant name: Lion City Chicken Rice & Hotpot
Address: 9 Townshend Rd, #01-01, Singapore 207607
Nearest MRT: 15 minute walk from Jalan Besar statiion
Tel: 8220 0329
Hours: 11am - 10pm
Singapore Toponymics
Townshend Road was named after Major-General Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend, KCB, DSO (1861 - 1924).
Major-General Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend, KCB, DSO was a British Royal Marine then served in the British Army. Veteran of many campaigns in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, his last was the Battle of Kut (south of Baghdad) in 1915 - 1916 during World War One. MG Townshend's command, the Sixth Indian (Poona) Division was besieged and defeated by Ottoman Empire forces. It was considered the Allies' worst defeat in battle during the First World War (1914 - 1918).
MG Sir Townshend's captors took good care of him as a very important guest but half of the Sixth Division's soldiers died as prisoners of war.
After WWI, MG Sir Townshend was a Conservative Member of Parliament until shortly before his death in 1924 at age 63.
Written by Tony Boey on 16 Jun 2026
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