Western chap cai png ($5) @ Western Fusion, Kaki Bukit!
Western Fusion at 333 Coffeeshop, Kaki Bukit: western chap cai png, $5. Pick-your-own western food economy-rice style, with fusilli instead of rice and popcorn chicken.
Western chap cai png from Western Fusion, $5. ๐๐
What we had ($5):
- Western chap cai png, $5
This one made me laugh in the best way. Chap cai png (economy rice) is the most Singaporean way to eat: you point at what you want from the tray, they pile it on, and the price depends on how greedy you got. Western Fusion runs the same format, except everything in the tray is western food. So you queue and point exactly as you would at any cai png stall, and walk away with pasta instead of rice.
The stall is in the 333 Coffeeshop at 61 Kaki Bukit Ave 1, a couple of minutes from Kaki Bukit MRT and the same kopitiam where we had the mee hoon kuey. It is a working-lunch sort of place, which suits a stall built around getting a hot plate of food into your hands quickly.
The base was fusilli, the little spirals, plain and lightly seasoned so they take on whatever you put over them. The spiral shape turns out to be a good choice for this style of eating, catching bits of everything as you dig around the box.
On top went a pile of popcorn chicken, craggy little nuggets fried a deep golden and still crunchy by the time we ate them, with a squeeze of ketchup at the side of the box. Then the vegetables: broccoli florets, sweet cabbage, long stalks of kai lan still dark green and glossy, and a wedge of soft tomato.
Five dollars for a packed styrofoam box of pasta, fried chicken and three kinds of vegetable is very fair, and it is a fun way to get a western plate without paying western prices. The novelty is real, but it is also just a genuinely good-value lunch.
Overall: 4.2 / 5. ๐๐๐ผ Crispy popcorn chicken, plenty of greens, and the cai png format applied to western food. Would come back.
