Le Cheng Kampong Hainanese Chicken Rice Tasting Session
389 Changi Road
Opening Hours:
Mon - Fri: 10am - 12am
Sat - Sun: 9am - 12am
https://lechenghainanesechickenrice.oddle.me/en_SG/
This was an invited media review. I did not pay for the meal during the free hosted tasting session.
Attended with representatives from Chubby Botak Koala.
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| Meal Flat Lay |
Homely & Comforting Meals
(Ratings: On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 = Worst and 10 = Best)
Overall: 8
Ambience & Setting: 7
Food & Beverage: 8
Service: 8
Value for Money: 9
Budget about SGD $23 per person.
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Opened in June 2024 by the same owners behind the Taiwanese porridge establishment Gu Zao Ren, the Le Cheng Kampong Hainanese Chicken Rice is a casual family restaurant specialising in kampong chicken rice and Chinese Hainanese claypot soups. The unique edge at Le Cheng Kampong Hainanese Chicken Rice is the adjacency of both restaurants, enabling diners to also order zi char dishes from the Gu Zao Ren restaurant next door.
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| Le Cheng Kampong Hainanese Chicken Rice Signage |
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| Le Cheng Kampong Hainanese Chicken Rice Exterior |
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| Le Cheng Kampong Hainanese Chicken Rice Interior |
Ambience at Le Cheng Kampong Hainanese Chicken Rice is clean, functional, and bright. The simple furnishings are large, suitable for communal dining, and the small air-conditioned space is usually packed during meal times. Service at Le Cheng Kampong Hainanese Chicken Rice is efficient, with staff quickly seating and serving orders, cleaning up quickly when diners leave. While there isn't much opportunity for them to display product knowledge, the menu is helpfully clear. Food at Le Cheng Kampong Hainanese Chicken Rice is traditional Chinese Hainanese cuisine, focused on succulent kampong chicken rice and claypot soups. Dishes are well executed and tasty, served in large communal sharing portions. Prices are affordable, budget about SGD $23 per person.
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| Condiments - Chili, Garlic, Soy Sauce |
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| Meal Flat Lay |
Loved the Mega Iced Lemon Tea (SGD $3.80), great for those who are feeling extremely thirsty. The refreshing zesty tangy sour sweet earthy flavours of the iced lemon tea is so nice, especially on hot days. Good!
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| Mega Iced Lemon Tea (SGD $3.80) |
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| Mega Iced Lemon Tea |
Oh so nice Chicken Rice (SGD $1). Infused with chicken stock and chicken fat, the fluffy soft moist white rice has taken on an oily sheen, with buttery savoury sweet grainy flavour. Highly recommended!
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| Chicken Rice (SGD $1) |
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| Chicken Rice |
The Kampong Chicken Half (SGD $21.80) features a large plump half chicken, with gelatinous slippery chicken skin and tender juicy chicken meat on the bone, carrying succulent meaty sweet salty savoury flavour. Has that lovely natural chicken taste. Served over a bed of crunchy cucumbers with vegetal sweet flavour, and the signature chicken rice gravy with its robust salty savoury herbal sweet nutty flavour. Highly recommended!
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| Kampong Chicken Half (SGD $21.80) |
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| Kampong Chicken Half |
The Green Dragon Vegetable With Mushrooms (SGD $12 / $14) has crisp crunchy qing long cai / green dragon vegetable tossed with bouncy shimeji mushrooms / white beech mushrooms and garlic, resulting in a bright vegetal earthy herbal sweet spice flavour. Tastes so wholesome and refreshing. Highly recommended!
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| Green Dragon Vegetable With Mushrooms (SGD $12 / $14) |
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| Green Dragon Vegetable With Mushrooms |
The Stir-Fried Bean Sprouts With Salted Fish (SGD $10 / $12) have a lovely juicy crunch to the fresh bean sprouts, and the bits of red chili and carrots combine for vegetal sweet spice flavour. Chunks of salted threadfin fish dot the dish, infusing it with fishy salty savoury flavour. Good!
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| Stir-Fried Bean Sprouts With Salted Fish (SGD $10 / $12) |
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| Stir-Fried Bean Sprouts With Salted Fish |
The Deep-Fried Fermented Bean Curd Pork (SGD $14 / $16) features tender juicy pork belly chunks marinated in a red fermented tofu bean curd paste, then deep-fried, resulting in a meaty grainy earthy savoury salty flavour. The balance of tastes is just right here, making this rather addictive. Highly recommended!
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| Deep-Fried Fermented Bean Curd Pork (SGD $14 / $16) |
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| Deep-Fried Fermented Bean Curd Pork |
The Stir-Fried Squid With Ginger And Onions (SGD $14 / $16) was decent enough, with chunks of bouncy squid tossed with crisp red onions and crisp spring onions and ginger, resulting in a bold herbal vegetal sweet savoury spice flavour. Goes well with white rice. Worth ordering!
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| Stir-Fried Squid With Ginger And Onions (SGD $14 / $16) |
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| Stir-Fried Squid With Ginger And Onions |
The Hainanese White Pepper Claypot Chicken Soup Set (SGD $28 / $48) features a large claypot filled with chunks of tender bone-in chicken, crunchy black fungus / wood ear fungus, wispy tofu bean curd skin, goji berries / wolfberries, white pepper, and ginger. Slowly simmering away, the White Pepper Claypot Chicken Soup has lovely meaty sweet savoury herbal peppery spice flavour. We opted to add-on crisp Napa Cabbage, crunchy Golden Mushrooms, and wobbly Silken Tofu Bean Curd, all 3 lending a combined vegetal grainy earthy sweet flavour to the claypot. Nicely filling and comforting. Highly recommended!
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| Hainanese White Pepper Claypot Chicken Soup Set (SGD $28 / $48) |
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| Add-On Sides (SGD $4) |
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| White Pepper Claypot Chicken Soup |
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| White Pepper Claypot Chicken Soup |
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| White Pepper Claypot Chicken Soup |
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| Napa Cabbage |
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| Golden Mushrooms |
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| Silken Tofu Bean Curd |
We loved the dining experience, and the chicken rice, at Le Cheng Kampong Hainanese Chicken Rice. The clean ambience, quick service, and tasty food at wallet-friendly prices, spur us to return to Le Cheng Kampong Hainanese Chicken Rice for another visit.
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