I had high hopes for King of Fried Rice after reading about them in the Sunday Times. How they are priced at half of Din Tai Fung’s original dish but still boasting similar taste and quality. So I did a takeaway on a Monday late afternoon to beat the dinner crowd. I ordered the Egg Fried Rice with Pork Cutlet which costs $7.20 (inclusive of $0.30 for takeaway). The takeaway order came with a tiny container of the XO sauce like chili (not pictured). When I opened the box at home, a nicely browned huge slab of pork cutlet was draped over the fried rice. Maybe it was the high expectations cos when I tucked into the fried rice, there was no fireworks. I recalled thinking this is it? I couldn’t detect any trace of wok hei. The fried rice itself tasted almost bland though it was fried very nicely and evenly with every rice grain covered in egg. The pork chop was very tender but tasted a tad salty. In fact the highlight of the entire dish for me was the chili. Man it packs a punch and a tonne of flavour. A flavour bomb alright. My throat has been acting weird lately but that didn’t stop me from mixing every bit of chili I could get out of the tiny container and mixing it all up with the fried rice. That did it for me and I polished off every single grain of an otherwise pretty meh fried rice.