Weekend Eats: Yeo Keng Nam Chicken Rice or The Yang's

Chicken rice lovers will probably know Yeo Keng Nam at Braddell Road for its famous traditional Hainanese Chicken Rice.

Yeo Keng Nam at Braddell

But do you know that they have another Outlet at Serangoon Road? It is known as The Yang's, which also provides Delivery and Catering service. Awesome if you stay in the vicinity as the accept same day delivery orders, with delivery charge being $3, for orders that are above $25. 

The menu is typical tze-char fare, with dishes such as the famed Hainanese Pork Chop, your typial beancurd, stir-fry vegetables, famed chicken etc. 

But the most important dish is the Chicken Rice. There's really nothing else to talk about if the chicken rice is not up to standard right. Thankfully, the Yeo's / Yang's or Yeo Keng Nam serves up a pretty decent chicken rice, perfect for a hot weekend lunch. 

If anything, just remember the following three commandments to look out for to act like a pro-critique on chicken rice - and Yeo Keng Nam chicken rice scores well on all three fronts.

The Fragrant Chicken Rice

Good chicken rice is so good that you can eat it on its' own. The first mouthful of the rice should make you ask for more as the fragrance continues to spread easily within the mouth after each mouthful. This reaction is made possible because the aroma not only exists on the surface, but the fragrance had penetrated and has locked within each grain of the rice. Don't forget, it complements further with the typical chicken rice chili sauce.

Sting of the Chicken Rice Chili and Ginger

The chili and ginger sauces complements and enhances that taste of the chicken rice. The chicken rice chili is as critical as the rest of the dishes, and typical Singaporeans like it sourish and hot. The sting, sourness and fragrant of the chili sauces must make you ask for more.

The Tenderness of the Chicken

To ensure the chicken blend with the fragrant rice and chili, they have to be steam to the right tenderness to achieve the succulent quality that you would not stop sinking you teeth into them. The meat should look white and juicy instead of pinkish. Yep, thumbs up to them, it wasn't melt in your mouth, but its pretty darn close.

Ordering is easy to, thanks to their modern implementation of a website
- Visit their website www.ykn.com.sg for their menu, delivery and catering details. 

So you don't even need to bother heading down and can go ahead to order if you are within delivery vicinity. Saves the pain of finding table space, parking lots on crowded weekends too.

Yeo Keng Nam Chicken Rice

SG Weekend Warrior rates it 4 stars.

8 Braddell Rd, Singapore 359898 6285 4153