Through Gary, I managed to get in touch with Satkuru. After some discussions, we decided to meet up for lunch at Equine Park on the following day. Since we were planned to meet up, I asked him to get William Leong to join us as well, since I wanted to meet him for quite some time too.
Satkuru, a blogger whose blog I read very often and randomly. He has been pinging Project Petaling Street and that was how I got to know his existence in blogsphere. Moreover, the fact that he knows most of my ex-classmates did intrigued me. As for William Leong, a featured blogger for Nuffnang, we have chatted a few times on IMs and I, too, occasionally read his blog.
They suggested the famous chicken rice at Equine Park, which I never heard of until that faithful day. Tim Kei chicken rice shop. They also sell mixed rice, char siew and siew yuk too!
Apparently, they were featured in many magazines, TV shows and even Hong Kong celebrities paid them a visit.
The usual sauces like dark soy sauce, soy sauce and home made chilies are already placed on the table. The chilies tasted superb, just like how my late grandmother used to make them. Fragrant and tasty, thick and spicy, the real chicken rice chili sauce. At other places, you get the superbly diluted version, where you taste sourness more than spiciness itself.
The rice didn’t taste like chicken rice at all. It didn’t have the strong chicken rice flavour and aroma. The restaurant calls the rice as yellow ginger rice (loosely translated).
Being the greedy ones, Ah Kit and I ordered their steamed chicken, roasted chicken, char siew and siew yuk. Heh!
The siew yuk was really nice, crunchy and juicy but not the case for their char siew, which tasted like a really thick piece of plastic toy food.
As for the roasted chicken, it was nothing close to their steamed chicken. The meat in the steamed chicken was much more tender and softer compared to its counterpart. Unlike the chickens in Malacca’s chicken rice ball shops. the meat were more chewy and had a firmer texture. It was a little dry but still delicious.
Not too bad, for my standard actually. Maybe I will return for more, just maybe.
One for the album, say cheese!
