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Introduction
The first outlet of many planned across the island, Chic-a-boo offers an alternative for fried chicken cravings. Only fresh and not frozen chicken is used and customers get to pick from a variety of sides including soups, coleslaw and 5 types of potatoes.
There is even a choice of spicy or non-spicy (Favourite) chicken.
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Opening Hours
Mon - Sun
11:00 - 22:00
Above information is for reference only. Please check details with the restaurant.
Intoduced from my colleagues that the fast foods sold from this stall is very nice so decided to check it out. One piece fried chicken at $2.50 and corn bread at $1, both are at reasonable price. The chicken meat is very tender and juicy, and the outer layer is very crispy and not too oily. The corn bread taste similar to muffin which is moist and full of the nice fragrant of the corn. Stall helper is friendly and stall is clean and neat as well.
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The first that caught my attention is their cheeky stall name. They are located in the same coffee shop as Aston's, a stone's throw away from the Ang Mo Kio MRT station and bus interchange. I went on their opening day in December 2012. There was a promotion then so spotted a queue there. The service was rather effective though so the waiting time was rather short. The price for 2 pieces of fried chicken with a corn bread, soup and a side dish is $6.90. The price is definitely on the high for such a western food stall. It is as high as the fried chicken offered by Popeyes Fried Chicken next door. The choices for original and spicy are available. I went ahead to try the original and the spicy selection. First impression was pretty good. The fried chicken has got a layer of crispiness and not oily. The spicy taste was rather mild and not too distinctive. The original one tasted quite similar. I compared it to the fried chicken next door. My choice is obvious somewhat. I still very much prefer the fried chicken at next door. The curly fries was tasty and not oily. A definite better choice than the normal fries though. The cream of corn soup tasted quite bland. I could taste bits and pieces of shredded chicken, carrot and corn in it.The mashed potato tasted normal as well. It seemed to be made of potato flakes and not of real potatoes. The brown sauce did not have a distinctive taste too. I expected the coleslaw to be better but the taste was rather mediocre. It has got shredded cabbage, carrot and onion in it. The refreshing taste was rather lacking. It might be quite a challenge for them to compete with their competitor just next door. I walked past a few times after that and their business seemed a bit slow.
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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 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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