The queue at Heng Ji
Heng Ji Chicken Rice has been around Chinatown Complex Market & Food Centre for decades and my family has been patronising them ever since I was a little boy.
Other than Tiong Shian Porriage at the main road (opposite CK Department Store), Heng Ji Chicken Rice seems to be the only other thing we eat whenever we visit Chinatown.
The thing
about Heng Ji is that they only sell poached chickens and there is always a perpetual queue for it's chicken rice.
I remembered their rice used to be served in tiny blue colored bowls and
because the bowls were really small, we always had to order extras.
Heng Ji's rice is fragrant and slightly oily which is fine with me but they uses broken rice which crumbles easily in the mouth.
We continued to patronise Heng Kee for many more years until the opening of the Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice & Noodle stall (#02-127) a few doors away.
The chickens hanging off the hooks gleamed under the lights and looked so much more
tantalising than the pale looking ones from Heng Ji.
We decided to give the new stall a try and we are glad we did for we have never looked back since.
