Sri Bistari Penyet Chicken

Sri Bistari Penyet Chicken

I ate Sri Bistari penyet chicken for takeaway dinner recently. This halal penyet chicken came from Sri Bistari located at a neighbourhood coffee shop “Kopitiam” in Simei housing estate, just a few steps away from the Simei MRT Station.

This Sri Bistari penyet chicken stall is apparently a branch of the famous Sri Bistari chain that serves the famous penyet chicken from Changi Village food center. Perhaps it was a takeaway penyet chicken meal box that affected its taste, or perhaps it was the delay before we ate it, somehow this penyet chicken does not live up to that produced from the Sri Bistari Changi Village oven.

The penyet chicken meat from Sri Bistari (Simei) had a rather salty coat of thick seasoning. While this was tasty and somewhat unusual, the bland chicken flesh was not as soft as I preferred. There was no outstanding texture nor flavour that would have garnered Sri Bistari penyet chicken a higher grade from me.

The Sri Bistari penyet chicken rice was of a good-grained kind, fairly firm to bite. Although the rice grain had above average firmness, it failed to match the basmati type of rice that I had come to expect from Sri Bistari.

My verdict: 6.5 out of 10.

I’ve tasted the better alternative of penyet chicken at its Changi Village branch, so this stall’s penyet chicken somehow fails to live up to Sri Bistari’s fame.