When you enter, the staff tell you that there's more seating in the back. I get the feeling that this place must be packed during lunch and dinner rush.
They even put tables in the hallway leading to the main dining area! This place has got to be popular.
Like an idiot, I sat in the hallway section instead of here. That lady is giving me some hardcore "What the fuck?" face.
There were many options for chicken. Salted, boneless, plain, with ginger sauce, spicy, etc. You could order just the chicken (probably for takeaway) or have a chicken and rice combo meal.
The combo meals or lunch sets. I ended up choosing the boneless Hainan chicken rice. You see, I need the special rice where it's boiled in chicken fat or something. It's at the top right of the menu below. Do you see how the rice is yellowish? That means it's been saturated with broth and fat. The other pictures only show plain rice.
While chicken is obviously their piece d' resistance, there were many other options. I'm interested in coming back to try these and the curries.
My meal came with a choice of soup or hot drink. If you're in the mood for soup at a Chinese place, I really strongly recommend not ordering the Western soup. That's just expired Campbell's with extenders like cornstarch and God knows what else. Get the Chinese soup because, at least, a real animal was boiled to make the broth.
Today's soup was spinach! Delicious! I love spinach.
I have no idea what this is. A plum?
I ended up dropping it onto the floor. Fuck me. And yes, of course, I picked it up! I'm not rude!
Look at the lovely colour of that rice! There was an option to have chicken leg meat rather than white meat for an additional HKD5, but I wanted to see whether or not their white meat -- which I normally never eat, blech -- was any good. If a restaurant can do a good job with shitty white meat, then they'll be able to do marvels with delicious dark meat.
The sauce was marvelous, by the way! It was slightly spicy and not overwhelmingly gingery.
For those of you who have been to Bangkok, the taste is very reminiscent of that famous boneless chicken eatery. Don't ask me what it's called, I have no idea. But this is definitely not Singaporean-style Hainan chicken.
However, it was still actually really good. Yes, I know there's a feather / chicken fluff on the wing. I still ate it. I was pretty amazed at how well they de-boned the chicken, by the way.
They even left the gristle! Yum, yum!
Obviously from the photo below, I enjoyed my meal a lot. It was so cheap, HKD37 for all of that. Definitely a great place to have lunch, it's too bad this area is so polluted with all the construction and buses going by, though.
Delicious Cafe is at 153 King's Road in Fortress Hill, just below King's Centre (I think that's what this building is called). It's across the street from the Fortress Hill MTR Station Exit A. You can call them at 2802 6622 for takeaway and delivery, too!
