Wonder Grill

Came across Wonder Grill in the Food Paradise coffeeshop located at Blk 182 Woodlands Street 13, which is a stone’s throw away from Marsiling MRT Station — the coffeeshop also houses Ain Popiah Basah; a Muslim stall that serves up halal Vietnamese beef pho and popiah that had been recently featured on 8 DAYS Eat. Wonder Grill is a western cuisine stall that mainly serves chops and grills, as well as burgers.

Apart from serving their chops and grills on plates, there are also western fare that is serve hotplates — the very same reason why we actually made our visit here for. With options ranging from Beef Steak to Lamb Chop and even Salmon Teriyaki for their hotplates, we went for their Mexican Chicken Chop. Each hotplate item comes accompanied with a baked potato, fried egg and corn nibs; the Mexican Chicken Chop comes pretty much the same as the Cajun Chicken Chop — the Mexican Chicken Chop comes served with the same brown sauce, with an addition of nacho cheese sauce and mayonnaise drizzled on top. To be really fair, the entire dish tasted fairly alright; the chicken could be a little juicier, but the savoury brown sauce did help to make the dish refrain from being too dry, while I did appreciate how they did the drizzling of the nacho cheese sauce sparingly so it is not overwhelmingly cheesy. The baked potato was fairly decent; sufficiently soft, though it seems to be topped off with a mix of mayonnaise and tartar sauce(?); provides for the creaminess that often goes with the baked potato that could be a little heavy-handed for those who are more accustomed to pairing their baked potato with sour cream. Fried egg was done with a well done yolk; noted how it wasn’t quite consistent across the two orders we had — thought it would have been better if it came with molten yolk. The nibs of corn provided a crunch and sweetness; balances out against the heavier components here.

Whilst the dish remained fairly decent, we wished there was more attention to the details here — it is noted that the hotplate was served pretty much without the sizzling and smokiness that usually one would expect for such dishes; the lack of such details probably setting a less memorable first impression without having to dig into the dish. That being said, there isn’t much to shout about for the Mexican Chicken Chop here — decent Western fare for the residents living around the coffeeshop, though not one I would make a special trip to have.