Restaurant: Savoy Kitchen
Location: 138 E Valley Blvd, Alhambra, CA 91801. Phone number (626) 308-9535
Date: November 04, 2017
Cuisine: Hainan Chicken
Rating: Decent curry
Occasionally those of us Hedonists who are really serious about our Chinese food do a food crawl of some sort. Today’s was 5 stops, all for Hainan Chicken Rice. This is a traditional dish of Hainan Provence in southern China and is one of the national dishes of Singapore. Poached at low temp with garlic and ginger. The broth is supposed to be used to cook the rice. It is served with a variety of sauces.
This is part 5. The full set is: [Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5]
Savoy is a corner on the main drag of Valley Blvd right in Alhambra, close to dozens of places I’ve eaten at.
The menu.
Hainan Chicken of course. This was my least favorite chicken. It was pretty straight up. Soy, ginger, and spicy sauce. The rice was totally normal white rice — fail!
“famous” beef curry. It wasn’t bad. Typical Indonesian brown curry with potatoes and beef. Here is a closer aproximation of the garlic rice.
This was my least favorite place, or at least my least favorite Hainan Chicken. The menu was really odd, Hong Kong cafe style in that it has curry, chicken, lots of sloppy looking weird pasta, and pizza! Woah.