{"id":170,"date":"2007-02-06T10:03:39","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T02:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=170"},"modified":"2007-02-06T10:03:39","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T02:03:39","slug":"bad-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2007\/02\/06\/bad-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Bird!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hotplate Black Pepper Chicken @ <\/a>Kopitiam<\/a> (<\/a>Rivervale Plaza<\/a>)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"dining-145.jpg\"Ling needed to look for nearly a dozen water pistols for a lesson on the new week. She insisted adamantly that the pistols would be used for a \u201cscience experiment\u201d in school, but exactly how those toy guns will fit into that exercise I\u2019ve yet to find out. In any case, there was a toy and stationary shop at <\/a>Rivervale Plaza<\/a>, so that was where we hit on Friday evening last week and also for a quick dinner.<\/p>\n

Between the two foodcourts on the second level that eye-ball each other at the Plaza, we\u2019re pretty certain that the <\/a>Kopitiam<\/a> one offers noticeably cheaper fare. Which one sells better food we haven\u2019t figured out yet though; the stuff in both are pretty mediocre so far. Still, the both of us checked out the same stall; Ling had shrimp dumpling noodles, and myself a black pepper chicken hotplate with rice. Ling\u2019s noodles weren\u2019t really any good, even though the asking price was a very low of $2.50. Mine was $3, and for that I got a bowl of rice, a hotplate with a sizable portion of bean sprouts and chicken meat. Great value for money; elsewhere for these portions, the set\u2019s asking would had been at least $4.<\/p>\n

The taste was quite a different story however. The black pepper flavour was minimal, and the chicken cooked in too watery a sauce that the pepper flavour got pretty diluted. I\u2019m reminded of similar fare at <\/a>Sembawang Hill<\/a> hawker centre; and for a slightly higher asking price, you get a much better rendition of this dish.<\/p>\n