Yep, I’m back, and I’m back with a Cantonese classic and my go to comfort food, soya sauce chicken rice. After salivating over @misstamchiak post about Chu Huang Hong Kong Royal Chicken (holy crap that’s a mouthful and a half), I HAD to get their birds pronto.⠀

It is not the best soya sauce chicken I’ve ever had, but it is still undeniably unctuous. At nine bucks for a whole leg, it’s a premium price tag, but the hefty hit to the wallet is ameliorated by the piquancy of the poultry. The soya sauce based braising liquid has intensively infused every last morsel of meat with a pleasant herbal aroma, and the deeply palate pleasuring umami flavours from the MSG naturally occurring in soy sauce.⠀

Silky smooth & sumptuously savoury porcelain poultry skin is braised to a beautiful brown colour, and the white meat beneath is cooked juuuust right. Any less and it’d be raw, and more and it’d be overcooked. Sure, many may freak out at the fact that the bones are still a bit bloody, but believe me when I say that’s perfect doneness for chicken. Besides, what’s the point if you don’t live life on the edge? Remember kids: WE HERE FOR A GOOD TIME NOT A LONG TIME!!!⠀

As for the chicken rice ($1 per order), it is DEFINITELY the best chicken rice I’ve had the pleasure of consuming thus far. Every single perfectly steamed grain of rice is insanely inundated with the slickness of the chicken fat it was cooked in, and the savouriness is simply stellar. The bite & chew are stunningly perfect, while the flavour & richness of the rice is simply sublime, with each fat slicked grain doubling up as a little umami bomb of carby comeliness as you chew.⠀

厨皇 equates to ‘kitchen king’ when literally translated, and I’m pretty inclined to agree with that considering how lipsmackingly luscious their cuisine is.