Hainanese pork chop rice + fried egg ($7.50)!
Hainanese-style pork chop with crispy fried egg upgrade — panko cutlet, crinkle-cut fries in tomato-onion sweet-sour gravy, plus a lacy fried egg. $7.50.
Lunch — Hainanese pork chop rice + fried egg at $7.50. The crispy egg upgrade was the right call. 😋
What was on the plate ($7.50):
- A mound of white rice on the right.
- Sliced panko-fried pork cutlet strips at the bottom on a bed of lettuce.
- A pile of crinkle-cut fries drowned in sweet-sour tomato-onion gravy — that signature glossy orange-red Hainanese sauce.
- A massive lacy fried egg with crispy crinkled edges, the white spread out wide and the yolk somewhere in the middle. Possibly two eggs cooked together.
The fried egg upgrade is the cheapest add-on to any Hainanese pork chop plate — the lacy crispy edges of a properly hot-pan-fried egg add textural variety to the wet-saucy main plate.
This version had the egg done in a slightly different style — instead of the standard sunny-side-up, the egg was almost smashed and fried thin, creating that wide lacy spread with crispy outer edges throughout (not just the white). More surface area for the texture.
The crinkle-cut fries are the upgrade over standard fries — more sauce-grip surface area thanks to the ridges. The tomato gravy clings to every crinkle.
Total: $7.50. Heritage Hainanese pricing with the egg upgrade.
Overall: 4.2 / 5. Pork chop was the right crispy thickness, gravy was sweet-sour balanced, lacy fried egg was the textural highlight. Will keep adding the egg upgrade. 😍👍🏼
