Hainanese Chicken Rice Balls from The Tiong Bahru Club Singapura. The dark rage that this $16.80 dish ignites is equivalent to the feeling you get when you realise that obnoxious, Phua Chu Kang mole-above-her-lip, banshee-esque secretary from the other department who once stomped on your shoes while queuing ahead of you at the ayam penyet stall managed to get on the M1 iPhone early registration list…which you narrowly missed out on because minutes before the registration closed you needed to take an unexpected emergency dump.
The titular balls had the decidedly unoily, dry, tired stickiness of half-licked envelope adhesive lining after an afternoon soccer game, and the parents of fragrance and flavour probably forbade them from going outdoors that day because of the haze. The beansprouts probably stood too long in the shower, whilst the soup had as much personality as one of those footpath spiderwebs along Thomson Road. The chicken feebly tries to pick up the slack, but what’s the point really? 1.6/5
The Tiong Bahru Club Singapura
57 Eng Hoon Street #01-88
Singapore 267208
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