BBQ Chicken (Cineleisure)

This new chain of restaurant is pretty new in Singapore. It is said to be Korea’s No. 1 Chicken Restaurant and everything is cooked in 100% extra virgin olive oil. Even though I had walked past this basement brightly decorated restaurant a few times, it did not hit me that I have not tried this place. So one day decided to have dinner there before the movie starts.

This place operates like a restaurant so we have to wait at the counter outside to be ushered into a table. Well the place seems quite deserted and only a few tables occupied when we were there. Like what I said before the place is brightly decorated, and with pictures of their food all over the place. It does not look like a Korean place to me at all, more like a fast food restaurant. We were given a menu where seem like all their food are focus on chicken, from fried to charbroiled. They even infused ginseng flavor fried and charbroiled chicken. They also got sandwich, salads, etc. Quite interesting menu with tempting pictures, felt quite tempted to order all and give it a try!

In the end, we ordered the original Olive Luxury Chicken (3 pieces) and Korean Charbroiled Chicken (2 pieces), together with a set meal, which consist of rice, coleslaw, fries and drink. We tried to change one serving of fries to wedges but the waitress informed us that it was sold out. Hmm…. After which we waited for 5 minutes which drinks came and another 15 mins before the main dish arrives. It took some time but I believe they cooked the chicken from scratch therefore took sometime.

Olive Luxury Chicken Set ($10 $3 for the set): The set that comes with it tasted good but normal, nothing extraordinary. The main star, the fried chicken, did wow me. It came in 3 pretty decent sized chicken, all in crispy golden brown. Looked very appetizing. Once I cut the meat open, the smell of the freshly fried chicken went into my nose. Unlike some fried chicken when you cut open the oil will come flowing out but this does not. The chicken tasted juicy and tender but not oily at all. I wonder if it is due to the olive oil they were using. The skin is very crispy as well. It is really great, much better than KFC chicken!

Korean Charbroiled Chicken ($9 $3 for the set): This one appeared as BBQ chicken. Looked a bit on the dry side. However when cut open, can see that inside is also juicy and tender. It is very well seasoned. The meat just cuts open easily not tough at all. To me I preferred the fried chicken. Hee….

The service is good and prompt even though we waited a while before the bill come to us when we asked for it. Overall the cost of the meal is $26.45 with 10% from OCBC card. I think now I have a new place to go for my fried chicken craving for now!