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2013-05-29
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I am not sure when did Chic-A-Boo Fried Chicken started operations, but I only seemed to have noticed it recently when I was around the area a few weeks back. It’s location within Ang Mo Kio Town Centre isn’t really obvious as it is in one of the coffeeshops that is located at the end of the town centre.There were choices of having it in one piece, two piece, three piece, half dozen, one dozen and family-sized combo meals. I was dining alone, so I went for the two piece Chicken meal which comes
There were choices of having it in one piece, two piece, three piece, half dozen, one dozen and family-sized combo meals. I was dining alone, so I went for the two piece Chicken meal which comes with a soup, a side and a corn bread. At $6.90, it’s priced around the same as most commercial fast food joints.
The Curly Fries here tastes slightly lighter than both A&W and McDonald’s rendition, which I suppose is healthier but I just thought it was missing the kick that curly fries from those two places have in flavour that makes them so addicting and memorable.
The Corn Bread here is meant to be like the biscuits that Popeyes and Texas Chicken serve with their chicken meals. What it is not though is that they are not biscuits, they are bread, but they taste more like cakes. The Corn Bread was crusty on the outside and tasted so much like Madeleines with bits of corn in them, which was somewhat interesting, but the texture was rather bad. For a bread, it was quite dense and mushy on the inside, and it was rather greasy as well so much so it felt like it sticks on the throat somehow.
They had never stated what soup was going to compliment the combo meal, so it was quite a mystery until the food was ready and I found out it was Cream of Corn. Unlike other Cream of Corns which often only contain corns, they had added carrots, onions and shredded chicken in this one, which gave it some form of variety of ingredients. The soup’s taste wasn’t really altered by the additional ingredients though, and it just tasted like what it should have been.
There are two types of chicken here to choose from, the “Hot & Spicy” and the “Special” one. In simpler terms, “Hot & Spicy” would be “Crispy” in KFC and “Special” would be the “Normal” in KFC. For any combo meal, you can mix the type of chicken, so I had one Hot & Spicy (which is the drumstick) and a Special. The batter used here somehow feels pretty much like the ones from fast food outlets and doesn’t have the “homemade” feel to them, which was quite expected. For the “Special”, the meat also came off from the bones quite easily and they were tender and juicy, though taste wise it’s pretty normal. I would take the “Hot & Spicy” anytime though; it’s got a real spicy kick to it and gives the meat a little bit more taste than the “Special” one though the spiciness does seem to take away part of the chicken’s flavour after a while. The chicken here are also not too greasy.For the full review, please visit: http://jiaksimipng.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/chic-a-boo-fried-chicken-blk-721-ang-mo-kio-ave-8/
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