Saturday, December 24, 2011

Hainanese Chicken Rice @Kheng Pin Cafe, Sri Bahari Road

Holy shit,exactly what is the big fuss all about?
The waiting period lasts like forever .By which time you would have s-l-o-w-l-y downed a large portion of wantan mee,p-a-t-i-e-n-t-l-y munched on piles of loh bak till your jaws ached,e-x-c-r-u-t-i-a-t-i-n-g-l-y sipped and stretched two cups of drinks and yet you won't even see a shadow of your order.

During that period of time to you will be GLARED at hostilely by other patrons looking for a place to sit,all the while wondering why you just don't wanna get lost when you and your gang have obviously polished your plates and drunk the last of the melted ice cube in your no more peng drink.Some can be plain rude when they think you're trying to be funny or deny them of seating space.

The cannothandlestress old lady wears a perpetual frown all over her head and mutters like she's got bees in her hair.
Her other half's job is to chop,chop and chop like one cuckolded,trying to keep his knickers from falling.So many eyes are on him that,from his posture one might think he's gotten a bad case of hernia from our retinal stares alone.

WORST tactic that this stall employs is the $%# old woman likes to tell you that their food is sold out.

IT'S A LIE.
They have plenty more to go around.
It's their way of controlling the crowd.

So what you have to do is to take her word for it at first,then reapproach her like half an hour later when the crowd has thinned out OR when she starts fumbling around aimlessly like a zombie at the counter with nothing to rush about since she has effectively brought the customers requests to a grinding halt with her bluffology.
This is such a stupid method that they're using to create a want or get a breather,such a no brainer that....I can't believe I'm even divulging my "technique" on How-To coax a plate out of this senior citizen scammer,to you.

There are evidently lots of pakchamkeh fans.But honestly,the wait is just not worth it.
It's insane,it's sheer madness and lunacy to come here just for the chicken rice alone.

I mean,it's edible,not THAT bad,but not THAT great either to warrant a buttock numbing wait in this very busy kopitiam that is actually more famous for other foods than this relatively young stall.
And it's definitely NOT authentic Hainanese.

Real freaking waste of time!