Same ole chicken, but what the heck is up with the potato chips?!I went to BTK chicken rice tonight, and boy was I in for a surprise.
They re-did the entire fricking place. It wasn't so much the obvious in-store changes that surprised (and disappointed) me. They screwed with the essence of the BTK brand: the chicken.
I don't get it. What's wrong with serving your chicken the same way you have been the last 15-20 years? Why do you need to put it on a fancy platter (which elevated the chicken 3cm off the table) and put POTATO CHIPS on it?!?!
CHICKEN VERY LONELY AH??
The strongest thing going for BTK is it's heritage. Along with Loy Kee and Johnson Lock Duck (which, coincidentally is located next to the bt timah outlet we went to), BTK must be one of the most recognised and loved truly Singaporean food brands around.
The tables now sport gaudy (in my humble opinion) pseudo-leather table-cloths with gold trim. Service staff are dressed in spiffy all-white uniforms. Cutlery is encased in a pain-stakingly creased piece of paper made to look like banana leaf.
It.doesn't.work.
Ok, so their style of shaping their rice like a pyramid,
Like so.
so, so only lah. Nothing special
They re-did the entire fricking place. It wasn't so much the obvious in-store changes that surprised (and disappointed) me. They screwed with the essence of the BTK brand: the chicken.
I don't get it. What's wrong with serving your chicken the same way you have been the last 15-20 years? Why do you need to put it on a fancy platter (which elevated the chicken 3cm off the table) and put POTATO CHIPS on it?!?!
CHICKEN VERY LONELY AH??
The strongest thing going for BTK is it's heritage. Along with Loy Kee and Johnson Lock Duck (which, coincidentally is located next to the bt timah outlet we went to), BTK must be one of the most recognised and loved truly Singaporean food brands around.
The tables now sport gaudy (in my humble opinion) pseudo-leather table-cloths with gold trim. Service staff are dressed in spiffy all-white uniforms. Cutlery is encased in a pain-stakingly creased piece of paper made to look like banana leaf.
It.doesn't.work.
Ok, so their style of shaping their rice like a pyramid,
Like so.
so, so only lah. Nothing specialHas helped to differentiate the BTK brand, but really, Singaporeans are better than cheap tricks like these. Or so I thought. The queue that built up in the 1/2 hour we were there was quite impressive.
Bah.
Oh, right. One more thing. Because Nawaar said the Godiva chocolixir was "better than..." I thought I should try it, especially on the back of having Starbuck's signature hot chocolate yesterday.
So, it was with a view of comparing the two that I parted ways with $8 to the grumpy girl over the godiva counter.
I was presented with...
Bah.
Oh, right. One more thing. Because Nawaar said the Godiva chocolixir was "better than..." I thought I should try it, especially on the back of having Starbuck's signature hot chocolate yesterday.
So, it was with a view of comparing the two that I parted ways with $8 to the grumpy girl over the godiva counter.
I was presented with...
(the middle one, Dark Chocolate)Chey.
Eh, nawaar, go and drink the Starbucks one lah. No fight.
(Cheaper also)
Anyways, Vivocity rocked! so big, I like.
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