If you choose the most suitable small restaurant in Shanghai for one person, you will definitely have the name of Lime Canteen. Focusing on laksa and Hainanese chicken rice, the owner invited a Singaporean chef to learn the recipe and make it in the early days of the store, and the Nanyang flavor is quite authentic.
The lime fried chicken rice is dry and has a high grain lightness, and the Thai jasmine rice is infused with pandan, lemongrass, chicken fat and southern ginger, and it has a light spice flavor when it is eaten. The seasonings are all homemade by the store, among which the sweet and spicy sauce is sour but not dry, the garlic sauce is made with chicken fat and ginger, the taste is warm, and the dark soy sauce is reprocessed from the "Guangxiangtai" imported from Singapore, which reduces the saltiness and bitterness, with a caramel aroma, and the mouth is softer.
The 2.5 kilogram Hainan Wenchang chicken is selected from the green lime, which is processed in the unified kitchen and distributed to each branch, the chicken is not soft and free of residue, but has a slight toughness, which can eat the fibrous feeling, but will not stuff the teeth. 1/4 chicken can choose chicken thighs or chicken wings, there are half and a specification to choose from, oil chicken rice needs to be purchased separately, the price is 6 yuan / bowl, the chicken soup is sent to the bottom of the broken chicken gizzards, and there is a very heavy rice wine flavor, very special.
Laksa is a Singaporean noodle dish with a rich curry and coconut milk flavour, while the supreme seafood laksa with lime is sweet, coconut aroma is rich, and the spicy sauce and shrimp paste are relatively weak. The soup base is filled with bean sprouts, fried dough sticks, fried tofu, fish cakes, cuttlefish cakes, cucumbers, halved boiled eggs, shrimp and squid, which can be called a hodgepodge of Singaporeans. Rice noodles are very refreshing, similar in thickness and texture to Guilin rice noodles, but not very easy to taste. The two-person set meal has a bowl of laksa, half a chicken, two bowls of chicken fat rice and a plate of seasonal vegetables, priced at 99 yuan, which is very generous and more affordable.
At present, there are two branches of Green Lime, the smaller Kunshan Road store has only four tables, and the dishes are only chicken, laksa, field chicken porridge, brine, vegetables and drinks, and there are relatively few choices, very close to the kitchen, and there will be a slight smell of oil smoke after eating. The North Sichuan Road store has more spacious tables and chairs, a wider variety of snacks and soups, and light foods such as salads. If you have a meal, you may have to wait for about half an hour.
