C&R Restaurant, Piccadilly - Hainanese Chicken Rice!
Summary: Busy place but great traditional Singaporean/Malaysian cuisine with quick service. Prices are very low for the location but can be confusing. See below. Toilets aren't the best but the restaurant itself is clean.
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Hainanese chicken rice is a signature and unique Singaporean dish: Chicken meat is cooked in herbs and served cold on a bed of vegetables alongside rice cooked in chicken stock with oil and garlic and served hot with soy sauce. Traditionally it's accompanied with a chicken broth and crushed ginger, chilli sauce and soy sauce for dipping but hey, you can't have everyting halfway across the world.
For all you Singaporeans (and Malaysians) in London who have been craving chicken rice since you left (like me!), go to C&R Cafe, near Piccadilly. Address:
3-4 Rupert Court,
London,
W1V 7FQ
The rice is full of flavour, chicken is well-cooked and it's served with a little dipping bowl of chilli sauce. Mmm, tasty... No broth, ginger or soy sauce bowls (well, soy sauce is poured over the rice before serving) but it tastes fantastic! :) If you're like me and don't like dark meat they're happy to serve you a breast meat portion if you ask when ordering. I had a thigh/drumstick portion there once that was mostly bone and very little meat. It's priced at about £6.50 which is very good value for Central London, but we were once charged £8.50 per plate, which may have been a peak times surcharge. Or not. I'm pretty sure I once paid for dinner for three people all ordering different main courses and it was £16.50 but since lots of people were waiting, the number of illegible scribbles on the receipt looked right and we didn't have a menu to check against, we didn't query it.
Also on the menu is Roti Canai/Prata (very heavy and greasier than I like it) with runny, sour and spicy curry sauce. It's quite different from the thick coconut or tomato-based sauces you normally get in curry houses in England but still tastes great. There is a large selection of other Singaporean/Malaysian foods as well, like Nasi Lemak but I haven't haven't tried them yet coz I like chicken rice so much :)
The restaurant is usually busy and most times I've been there I've had to wait a few minutes for a table. The owners have packed it with as many cheap tables as they could and furnishings are sparse - no tableclothes and little decoration although the seats are padded, so slightly more comfortable than most fast-food places. This only helps their rapid turnover, as we usually don't wait long and are seated within a few minutes of a table being vacated and cleaned. It's a noisy place due to the lack of soft furnishings but the quality and price of food (okay, that one dish) more than makes up for it. Toilets are hiding downstairs and are a bit shoddy but clean.
Highly recommended for anyone who likes oriental-style spicy food, particularly if you want traditional Singaporean and Malaysian dishes.
Tagged: london | restaurants | food | hainanese | singaporean | malaysian
Full review:
Hainanese chicken rice is a signature and unique Singaporean dish: Chicken meat is cooked in herbs and served cold on a bed of vegetables alongside rice cooked in chicken stock with oil and garlic and served hot with soy sauce. Traditionally it's accompanied with a chicken broth and crushed ginger, chilli sauce and soy sauce for dipping but hey, you can't have everyting halfway across the world.
For all you Singaporeans (and Malaysians) in London who have been craving chicken rice since you left (like me!), go to C&R Cafe, near Piccadilly. Address:
3-4 Rupert Court,
London,
W1V 7FQ
The rice is full of flavour, chicken is well-cooked and it's served with a little dipping bowl of chilli sauce. Mmm, tasty... No broth, ginger or soy sauce bowls (well, soy sauce is poured over the rice before serving) but it tastes fantastic! :) If you're like me and don't like dark meat they're happy to serve you a breast meat portion if you ask when ordering. I had a thigh/drumstick portion there once that was mostly bone and very little meat. It's priced at about £6.50 which is very good value for Central London, but we were once charged £8.50 per plate, which may have been a peak times surcharge. Or not. I'm pretty sure I once paid for dinner for three people all ordering different main courses and it was £16.50 but since lots of people were waiting, the number of illegible scribbles on the receipt looked right and we didn't have a menu to check against, we didn't query it.
Also on the menu is Roti Canai/Prata (very heavy and greasier than I like it) with runny, sour and spicy curry sauce. It's quite different from the thick coconut or tomato-based sauces you normally get in curry houses in England but still tastes great. There is a large selection of other Singaporean/Malaysian foods as well, like Nasi Lemak but I haven't haven't tried them yet coz I like chicken rice so much :)
The restaurant is usually busy and most times I've been there I've had to wait a few minutes for a table. The owners have packed it with as many cheap tables as they could and furnishings are sparse - no tableclothes and little decoration although the seats are padded, so slightly more comfortable than most fast-food places. This only helps their rapid turnover, as we usually don't wait long and are seated within a few minutes of a table being vacated and cleaned. It's a noisy place due to the lack of soft furnishings but the quality and price of food (okay, that one dish) more than makes up for it. Toilets are hiding downstairs and are a bit shoddy but clean.
Highly recommended for anyone who likes oriental-style spicy food, particularly if you want traditional Singaporean and Malaysian dishes.
Tagged: london | restaurants | food | hainanese | singaporean | malaysian
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