Number One Hundred (Chinatown Complex)

They have introduced a few more items to the menu since opening, but this time I came back to try this.

Their chicken cutlet was super crunchy and juicy. Fried rice of course remain pretty wok hey.

A new stall just opened focusing on their fried rice series.

Sadly the flavour wasn’t strong enough for me, coming together with a few pieces of shrimp which is big and fresh. $5

Recommending you to add $1 for the sunny side egg to complete your fried rice. As the egg really did pretty well.

Spotted @numberonehundred.no100 at Chinatown complex food centre last night when we in the area to dabao. The words 菜饭 were a little misleading though, and I didn’t really want to check it out cos I wasn’t in the mood for 菜饭. Turns out they have already moved away from 菜饭, and now it’s 炒饭.

Now, that’s interesting because egg fried rice seems to be a rising trend, from DTF back then to the ever-popular King of Fried rice until recently some new ones like Chef Wang. There are 3 options here; prawn, pork chop and chicken cutlet. One thing about the food here is their generosity, be it rice or protein portions. Whiffs of fragrant aroma from the rice and egg was still pretty much evident after the long distance home, while each grain was fluffy, moist and distinct. Probably so because they use freshly cooked rice. There were several salt marinated jumbo shrimps, which were really plump and juicy. Marinated with spice, the pork chop was rather tender and sufficiently flavourful though the exterior could still be slightly crispy. Be warned of their chili with a fiery kick!

Number One Hundred is one of the few new stalls which had opened fairly recently at Chinatown Complex Market — one of the hawker centres that sees quite a bit of movement of its tenants especially of the late. Having its menu split separately for both day and night operations (a style which was pretty common back in the day, with few hawkers still practice these days), Number One Hundred serves up Chinese Economic Rice in the day for the lunch crowd, but transforms itself as a stall specialising in Egg Fried Rice in the evening serving up their fried rice with fried chicken cutlet, pork chop or shrimp — all depending on the patron’s preferences. The stall is being named as such because it occupies unit number 100 in the food centre.

The plating of the Pork Chop Egg Fried Rice is pretty identical to that of Din Tai Fung’s rendition — a style of which that many stalls and establishments seem to have replicated these days (perhaps the next rising trend?). The variant here tasted somewhat closer to the local rendition of the fried rice; a bit more on the savoury side, but does come wafting of an evident smokiness (wok-hei) and slight hint of pepper — the rice distinguishable to the grain without being particularly greasy as well, which was a rather decent plate to have. The accompanying pork chop comes with a shattering crisp exterior, though not quite as light as Din Tai Fung’s rendition with a clear crustiness coming from the batter; sufficiently tender and does not require much effort to chew, all that whilst also not carrying an undesirable porky stench and was pretty much a joy to have on its own.

Given how they are located within the same hawker centre as Really Something 非同小可, it’s pretty much more or less that there will be comparisons made between the two stalls for their egg fried rice. Undeniably, the version served at Really Something does feel more Taiwanese than the one offered at Number One Hundred, but the lack of a pork chop option (at least during my visit previously) at Really Something does make Number One Hundred a decent option to consider, albeit with a slightly more local touch.