The Slog Reviews: 8.5/10. This is one of my favourite places in Singapore for chicken rice (both white and roasted meat are good) because as we all know, it is the chilli that makes or breaks the dish and this place makes mighty good chilli sauce. Fiery spicy chilli sauce that starts a nice warm flame in one's tummy and a sauce which isn't too watery or too sweet, definitely a place for chicken rice chilli lovers to try out.
The cost of my chicken rice dish above is SGD 3.50. The egg, a mere 50 cents. The dish also comes with the obligatory cucumber slices, some pickles and a bowl of soup. The soup isn't the oily or thin-tasting "drop a chicken cube in it" kind of soup but a hearty home-cooked version with beans. I don't know whether the store charges more for an extra bowl of soup (they didn't charge me but they behaved like it was a favour they were doing). The stall sells sugarcane and lime juice (about SGD 1+), all of which are tasty and fresh. There are other items on the menu such as assam fish and fried bean curd but I'll say, save your money. The assam fish tastes nothing of assam but of a weak tomato paste and the fish looks shrunken. The bean curd does not only look unappealing, it is so unremarkable I won't even start on it.
Ambiance-wise, Hainanese Delights really isn't much to look at, very much like a coffee-shop and there is even a long horizontal table against the wall so one can sit eating facing the wall. And, one thing about this place which never fails to irk me is that they ask for payment upfront right after you order your dish and drink. If one is seated when ordering, one has to get up and go to the counter and pay before one is served.
Unless one is a chicken rice chilli lover, I wouldn't recommend going all the way to this place for a meal.
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