Foo Hainanese Cuisine Siglap

 Unsure what to eat, I popped by a Hainanese Restaurant at Siglap simply called Foo Hainanese Cuisine.

The menu is pretty simple, with less than 10 dishes for selection. There's the usual Hainanese delights.

1) White chicken Rice (Wing/Breast - $4.80 / Thigh - $5.80)
2) Roasted Chicken Rice (Wing/Breast - $4.80 / Thigh - $5.80)
3) Hainanese Pork Chop ($6 small)
4) Hainanese Chap Chye ($4 small)
5) Ox Tail soup
6) Ngoh Hiang
 7) Roasted Char Siew ($6 small)

There's one more dish which I can't remember.

The Roasted Chicken Rice was generous in portion, offering good quantity of meat and rice. The rice was fragrant and not too oily. Chicken was also sufficiently tender and well prepared. The chilli could have been better but taste for that is always subjective. It was spicy but didn't give enough zing! However, at $4.80, it isn't cheap!

Pork chop was a disappointment. Notwithstanding the small portion, the gravy wasn't tasty enough and just tasted of ketchup. The hainanese style pork chop at Jin Wee coffee shop just a stone throw away down East Coast Road was yummier.

 There's a bar, and a dart board with an awesome TV in Foo Hainanese Cuisine. It might be a nice place to chill out with friends in a relaxed atmosphere and nibble on some local snacks - although chicken rice doesn't exactly come to mind.

 Washing down chicken rice with an ice cold beer is an awesome pairing idea though that makes you crave for both more beer and more hainanese chicken. The icy cold, effervescent, tartness of beer helps to neutralise the heat and vinegar / ginger kick from chicken rice. In fact, it makes you want to dip more of the chilli just to wash it down with even more beer.

 Don't believe me? Even Tiger Beer says so.