14:45 by FoxTwo Today, my colleague decided to drive to Changi Vilage for lunch.
Remembering the (failed?) outing from the ping.sg forums, I decided to see if I could locate the Ayam Penyet ("flattened chicken") place and check it out. It wasn't hard to locate it.
Yeah, I think this is the place (Edit - ok Daphne just confirmed that this is NOT the place where the pingsters wanted to go for the gathering). It's the only prominent Ayam Penyet place in Changi Village, so I hope I got it right. We all trooped in after looking at the menu, and picked a nice spacious spot inside the air-conditioned interior.
We ordered after looking at the menu, and drinks came first. I ordered a Chendol:
and, my Ayam Penyet arrived soon after:
Looks good eh?
There were a couple of surprises for us though. For example, rice doesn't come with the dishes. They are "extra-orders" at 50 cents each. A couple of my colleagues were grumbling about it.
However, they gave us complimentary fruits after the meal, which I guess makes it a little more bearable for the surprise of having to pay for rice.
Ambience-wise, it's kinda like a little Haagan-Daaz shop, nice and cozy, would be a great place for a chat. But, I doubt a ping.sg outing would be a good idea to the place - too small to accomodate more than 15 or 20 people inside, and maybe another 10 outside.
The Ayam Penyet itself isn't too bad, but the chilli is incredibly hot! Even the Malay colleagues were perspiring while they were eating. To the outlet's credit, they DO offer a "mild" version of their chilli, only if we had asked for it. By default, they give the strong one :)
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xinyun @ Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:18:00 PM mmmm, your ayam penyet look the same as what we had in Bugis :D
http://xinyun.sg/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/dsc00182.JPG -
FoxTwo @ Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:25:00 PM xy - yeah Ayam Penyets should all look the same haa. If not it wouldn't be called Ayam Penyet anymore. Anyway the food itself not too spectacular lah. Same like those you can find at hawker centres, but their chilli is outstanding.
And, your pic is blurry lah. You need to put the phone in Macro mode before you shoot pics of things less than 10 cm away... -
daphne maia @ Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:27:00 PM
the one that we are supposed to go and eat at changi village is Sri Bistari, not this one. it's a stall at the changi village market & food center.
that one is really authentic!
ANYWAY. i, too, jus had ayam penyet at Sims Place this afternoon! haha.. -
FoxTwo @ Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:19:00 PM
daph - ooo ok ok, I updated the post to indicate that this isn't the place you guys wanted to go for the gathering :)
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vickie @ Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:42:00 PM
huh this ayam penyet looks like the normal fried chicken with chili source only. Anyway these kind of shop used to require $$ if you request for additional food like rice, drinks and so on. I not sure about Singapore actually but in KL they really ask for $$ when you add additional stuff
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FoxTwo @ Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:49:00 PM
Vickie - eh that's the problem. If you order only ayam penyet, only the chicken comes, NO RICE. If you want rice, you pay 50 cents for it. It's not "additional" I'm talking about.
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precious @ Thursday, February 28, 2008 6:53:00 PM
The chili looks sooo goood!
