CHATTERBOX COFFEE HOUSE :

We usually don't pay attention to the large hotels cafeterias: all get the same impersonal and strictly business oriented appearance, and all serve the same standard international food. The CHATTERBOX COFFEE HOUSE, in THE MANDARIN SINGAPORE, is no exception as a matter of design; but it is very famous in town for its actually delicious MANDARIN CHICKEN RICE. This popular hawker specialty from Singapore has been introduced for first time a five star deluxe in 1971: this was then somehow a revolution. Why paying many times more than in the street, or in a food center, for this blue collar delicacy ?

The chicken they serve here is quite a sophisticated one, indeed. It receives a special breeding by farm in Malaysia, and comes very tender in the plate. Each serving comprises succulent, deboned chicken with fragrant Thai rice, bean curd soup, freshly made chili sauce, quality dark soya sauce, and ground ginger. We found portions that generous that we ordered nothing more. One 2kg chicken provides four portions: twice more, at least, than at any hawker's. The meal is that much enjoyed, that the most portions sold in one single day was 1422 ! We ignore of it was quoted in the Guiness Book of Records; but we know that THE MANDARIN SINGAPORE had been multi awarded for its aristocratic chicken.

The MANDARIN CHICKEN RICE is also served outside the hotel, at OUB CHATTERBOX and OUB CENTRE at Raffles Place, in Singapore business district.