101 Thomson Rd, #01-08 United Square, Singapore 307591
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Wee Nam Kee is a bustling spot celebrated for its Hainanese chicken rice, featuring tender chicken, fragrant rice, and an array of tasty sides in a casual setting.
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"Wee Nam Kee Considered Singapore’s national dish, Hainanese chicken rice is a beloved staple for many. It’s made up of a fragrant bowl of chicken broth, a pile of fluffy rice, and tender poached chicken (skin on), as well as condiments like ginger paste, dark soy sauce, and chili sauce—and sometimes a side of gai lan (a leafy Chinese vegetable). Enjoy the traditional meal in homey surroundings at Wee Nam Kee, a casual and inexpensive restaurant that started out many years ago as a humble food stall. Though the chicken rice is the star, other favorites include cereal prawns, fish-head curry, salted-egg pork ribs, and sambal kangkong (greens)."
Came here for a simple family dinner after hearing about the chicken rice and it did not disappoint. The chicken rice here is fluffy, fragrant and flavourful- good enough to eat on its own.
Both the steamed and roasted chicken were juicy and tender. Curry fish head was creamy, tasty and not too spicy. Sizzling tofu was okay- can do with and without. Eggplant was nice.
Portion of food here is big and price is reasonable. Food gets served rather quickly.
M Mmm
Google
Went on Friday night, we are the 3rd group of customer waiting in line. There are table needed to be clean and empty seats available but waitress have no more bandwidth to bring customers in. waited for a good 15 mins and finally got in. Place is noisy, lots of echo. Need to raise voice to heard each other. The atmosphere and service wasn’t really pleasing. Roasted chicken was oos at 7 plus, didn’t managed to try and gotten the white chicken. It was good, the sauce is nice. Rice is fragrant and tasty. Traditional dumpling, a good mix of mushroom, prawn and pork. The beansprout was served piping hot and tasty delicious. Not a fan of their chili and ginger sauce but it was okay cause the food already taste good.
Julius Tan
Google
Best roasted chicken rice in Singapore hands down. Had their chicken rice for many years and the main branch is the best, their roasted chicken has crispy skin with flavourful meat. I had their roasted chicken at their now defunct Marina Square outlet and it wasn’t very good. I usually eat at their restaurant to ensure the chicken is at its tastiest. You can skip their tze char dishes and stick to just chicken rice because most of them are underwhelming. I have eaten their baby sotong, Thai style beancurd, dough fritters and sambal kangkong and all of them were below average.
Sharon T
Google
Manage to make a booking so we didn’t have to wait in line. The food came pretty quickly. We quite like the chicken rice. Very nice flavour and the chilli was quite nice but not spicy enough. We also tried their sambal kangkung and ngoh hiang. Both decent. What was a disappointment was their hor fun. This was tasteless. Overall, come for the chicken rice. But not other dishes.
D L
Google
Ordered takeaway chicken rice for one, cost more than $7 for a packet of roasted chicken rice. Chicken breast was given and it was not so tasty and dry, small slivers of chicken skin on less than half of portion. Have to say taste wise standard has dropped a lot. Remember to ask for sauce when takeaway otherwise you won’t get any.
A B C Traveller
Google
The best chicken rice in Singapore, ranked by chicken rice lovers. This is the main branch. If you do not arrive early, you may need to queue up. The boiled chicken and roasted chicken is the best. The sauces are superb. We enjoyed the meal so much. Highly recommended for tourists.
J N
Google
Hainan chicken rice and salted egg prawns were the best!
Chili crab sauce was good, kind of like sweet and soul sauce, wish they serve Sri Lankan crab but their crab was only $50 so no complains
Daniel
Google
Overall it’s not bad, I just found it a little bit pricy compared to similar places nearby. Would still recommend this place. We paid $31 for 2 combo sets.