Went as part of the Singapore Meetup Group.
You have an embarassment of choices for chicken rice at Pak Don - large or medium chicken, (Large gets you more meat and a soup) and rice - oiled or boiled. There's an offer of soup as well. Filled with corn, carrots and all sorts of other knickknacks which we did not order.
Unlike Tsui Wah's really bad rendition of Singapore's Hainanese Chicken Rice, Pak Don's at least could almost stand up on its own as a bastardisation that evolved according to Hong Kong tastes.
The star of the meal was the chicken - an adequate amount of juicy meat from both the thigh and breast, wrapped in very fatty chicken skin with not too many bones.
The first disappointment was the rice. Which on first blush seemed to taste like a good match for the chicken. But it was too oily and too dry, giving you something more like brown rice than proper chicken rice from Singapore. Also, I'm not too sure whether they put in any pandan leaves (screwpine) and so the rice lacked the nuttiness that comes with using some.
The second disappointment was the chilli. Which was overly sweet for a dish that was already gumming up our tongues with fat.
The big positive surprise was the service, which while Hong Kong-brusque, at least didn't look at us too nastily when we took up quite a few tables and ate in turns.
Overall though, this was not somewhere to write home about. And I would recommend only getting the medium chicken rice so you can leave and still have space to eat something else.
Coke was $6 (I'm trying to get a feel for retaurant price parity)
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