Hainanese Delights

Russell Ri

4.0

Hainanese Chicken Rice comes from the Chinese subtropical island of Hainan and many of the sons and daughters of Hainan migrated to Singapore. The most-popular dish of Hainan is the Chicken Rice in which a chicken is used in all ways — poached for the meat, the soup is used to make a deliciously flavoured rice and to also infuse the chili sauce. Thus, Hainanese Chicken has become one of Singapore’s top loved dishes. I have long discovered this awesome Singaporean specialty dish at Hainanese Delights. I could vividly recall the very first time I had eaten this dish and I was blown away because it was so good. The only caution is to go easy on the chili and ginger sauce to make the dish more enjoyable. (I'm a chili fan so I used a lot of ginger and chili so you can probably imagine the intense heat because I was perspiring while eating!) I love the simplicity of boiling/soaking chicken in the broth (water). I made Hainanese style chicken several times and my family loved it. However, the preparation itself will require much patience, from gathering all the necessary ingredients because you also had to have minced ginger, spring onion oil condiment and use store bought dark sweet soy sauce to give the dish some nice contrast down to the chicken fat trimmings—it takes so much of your time. So each time we’d like to crave and enjoy Hainanese Chicken, we look no further, Hainanese Delights is the place to go!Hainanese Delights offers two different kinds of chicken--Hainanese Classic Chicken dish and Hainanese Fried Chicken. Both dishes are fantastic. They also make a really good broth. The chicken was cooked just right, the taste subtle and clean. The rice was rich and sinful. The chili sauce hot and fresh.I absolutely love their Chicken Rice moist chicken breast meat and their crunchy Radish cake dipped in vinegar. I’d also say the same mmmm yummy goodness to their Spicy Fried Squid (called Eat the Heat). Highly recommended would have to be their Tofu Terrific—large cubes of tofu immersed in deliciously sweet soy sauce concoction. Oh, and please do not forget to order their deep fried mantao. Paired with their Laksa Noodle Soup, the mantao perfectly goes well with the Laksa’s flavourful seafood curry and coconut milk based soup. If you're like me who couldn't get enough of their ginger oil sauce and chili sauce, I've got good news for you, they are now made available in small bottles which you could purchase and bring home! Also worth mentioning would be their bottled ginger tea which tastes just as good. I've had tasted it during the Hainanese Delights grand re-opening, and I swear it is a whole lot better than my good 'ol salabat tea powder at home. I suggest you guys should try it for yourselves. I guarantee, they won't put a hole in your pocket. Prices are affordable without sacrificing its quality. Just a word of advice though, don't expect Hainanese Delights to be as authentic as the ones being served in Singapore. Mr. Valentino Enriquez, Hainanese Delights General Manager had explained that they had to twist (just a bit) the recipes on their menu to suit the discriminating Filipino palate.

Marlon Membrado

3.0

The restaurant was fine, i enjoyed my meal though i just noticed their rice has alot of MSG, and also they use regular oil for the garlic oil sauce.My only concern is that the place was too warm, maybe they didn't turn on the AC or their AC is not enough to cool the whole place.

Mika Chen

3.0

One of the places I'd quickly visit whenever I crave for singaporean hainanese chicken rice. For only Php 149 (used to be 139), their quarter size hainanese chicken already comes with unlimited soup and chicken rice. I was kinda disappointed because during my latest visit, the ran out of soup which is one of the reasons why I wanted to eat there that time. Their ginger also taste really good with their chicken but the soy sauce of the chicken was too salty for me. You can also choose the option of noodle soup instead of chicken rice but it's not unlimited. There's nothing special about the noodles soup though. Ambience is average with accommodating servers.