Personally, I am a BIG fan of chicken. More specifically, I am a BIG BIG fan of Hainanese Chicken (as to Jon and his pork cutlet fetish). Jon and I actually have an agreement that whenever we try a new place he must order the curry pork or pork cutlet and I must order the Hainanese Chicken if it is on the menu. So, in honour of this special dish, I will be making specific posts reviewing all the Hainanese Chicken in the GTA. There are three things that I believe rates whether the dish overall is good or not: authenticity, quantity and of course quality. The latter two are pretty easy to understand but for authenticity, what I mean is how the dish presents itself to what Hainanese Chicken should be. Basically this means that the rice should be the yellow and oily chicken rice and there should be a soup that comes with it.
For those of you new to this blog and don’t know about YOGI Noodle, please refer to this post. Now on to the Hainanese Chicken. At a price of 7.99 + tax, this is fairly a cheaper price for Hainanese Chicken compared to the others that I’ve tried before. When the dish came, however, I understood why. First of all, the chicken was only a leg. In fact, it was less than a leg as you can see in the picture, with only 5 pieces. The rice made an attempt to be authentic, but it was not yellow nor it tasted close to the actual chicken rice. It was better than plain rice though. The chicken itself was decent, as it did taste like Hainanese Chicken at least and was not rough or old. The soup that came with the meal was a Chinese soup, similar to the ones you get before any meal at Chinese restaurants. Although it was a bit inauthentic, but I do like how the soup was not bombarded with MSG and such as it actually tasted good.
So, as many would recommend YOGI Noodle as a place to eat, I would disagree on recommending their Hainanese Chicken. I’ve had better at other places and YOGI’s just falls under the stereotypical and average Hainanese Chicken that you can get anywhere else, possibly for a lower price and higher quantity too.
Rating: 6.5/10 (The quality of the chicken saved itself from getting a lower rating)
Yogi Noodle
325 Bamburgh Circle, Unit 109A
Scarborough, ON
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