If you can only order one thing from here, make it the Salted Egg Chicken Chop ($9). Juicy, charred chicken is slathered in a salted egg sauce the consistency of thick curry gravy – zi char taken up a couple notches?
The sauce does look different from what we’re used to, a promising mustard yellow flecked with spices, curry leaves, and who knows what else.
As I took bite after bite, I waited for a little tingle of the tummy, or any slight discomfort, but there was none. Didn’t feel like trash afterwards, as I usually do after consuming a rich salted egg dish. Joy in the absence of jelak!
This is served with garlic rice that wasn’t garlicky enough, and cucumber achar. If carbs = calamity is an equation you go by, this may just change your mind. You have the gravy to blame.
Unlike the feeble attempts by certain large fast food corporations to hop onto the salted egg bandwagon, this salted egg sauce will be the first thing to wow you - the taste of salted egg is prominent, forward and shiok (for the lack of a better adjective of the same effect) and the sauce is almost like a thick salted egg curry minus the curry. That goes on a nice caramelized chicken thigh, served with garlic fried rice, crispy shallots and some home made pickles for some acidity. This is a great plate of food for dinner/supper. I will most definitely have this over and over again. #burpple #meatsmithsg #burntendssg
Can’t wait to devour this again at Meatsmith@Makansutra Glutton’s Bay! The smoky and juicy slab of chicken chop is smothered in a categorically stunning salted egg sauce that easily rivals any tze char equivalent. Thicc, salty and redolent with salted egg and whiffs of curry, I finished every scrap of it with spoonfuls of rice.
Taste: 4/5
Visited the newly-revamped Makansutra Gluttons Bay; the slab of chicken Chop is well-portioned at the price of $9 — juicy, tender and succulent with a smoky char apart from the savoury flavours from the skin, whilst drenched in a smooth, salted egg sauce and topped with crisp curry leaves. The garlic rice was fluffy and light; doesn’t feel overly carb-y whilst topped with shallots for more flavour and a crisp texture. Overall, a pretty decent item, though I wished the salted egg sauce could have come a little more gritty with bits of salted egg that could enhance the flavours of the dish a little more. Appreciate how they had provided pickles on the side though; cuts through all the heaviness of the dish and refreshes the tastebuds altogether.
The judicious usage of Meatsmith’s signature BBQ meats in familiar local favourites has resulted in standouts such as a spectacular salted egg chicken chop rice and this – two solid slabs of meat glistening in sticky-sweet charsiew glaze on a bed of rice. House-made cucumber pickles on the side are a nice touch, providing palate cleansing acidity and crunchiness. If this is any indication of things to come at the soon-to-be opened Meatsmith@Makansutra Glutton’s Bay, then I’m already sold.
Taste: 3/5
