Chicken chop ($5.80)!
A Singapore hawker Western plate: grilled chicken chop with brown gravy, coleslaw, baked beans, fries and a bun. $5.80.
A comforting hawker-Western lunch with BB: chicken chop at $5.80. 😋
What I had:
- Chicken chop: a grilled boneless chicken leg in brown gravy, with coleslaw, baked beans, fries and a soft bun
The Singapore hawker chicken chop is its own happy little institution: a colonial-era Western dish reworked for the coffee shop, and this was a textbook plate of it. The chicken was a whole deboned leg, grilled so the skin caught some colour, juicy underneath and ladled with a glossy brown gravy that ties the whole plate together (gravy on everything is the local way).
Around it sat all the classic sides: creamy coleslaw for a cool crunch, a pool of saucy baked beans, a heap of fries for dunking into the gravy, and a soft bun to mop up the rest. It is hearty, familiar and unfussy, the sort of plate that has fed Singaporeans an affordable taste of “Western” for decades.
At $5.80 it is honest value for how filling it is, comfort food that doesn’t pretend to be anything fancier than it is.
Overall: 4.5 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Juicy gravy-smothered chicken chop with all the classic sides, proper hawker-Western comfort. Would re-order.
