After a brief meeting in Starbucks MOA with J and some of our friends-slash-project-partners, we decided to get some dinner to go as we were headed home to finish some work. Besides, the cramming Christmas shopping crowd had already started congesting the mall, and we were in no mood to end up stuck in line for a taxi until 1AM. (Happened to me before. True story.)
We (ok, I) decided to try out this fast-food type place I saw featured in a local blog. Big Daddy’s Chicken, touted as Taiwan’s Famous Crispy Chicken Chop, was obviously famous for, well, its chicken chop (duh). They also sold pork chop, but since I don’t eat that, I was glad they offered the former.
If you’re looking for a flavorsome gourmet chicken dish with a French-sounding title, garnished with onion leeks or parsley, served attractively on an expensive-looking glass plate with an equally expensive price tag, this is not the place to go. However, if you’re in the mood for some deep-fried, large-portioned, chicken lovin’ soul food, this is where to get your fix.
Big Daddy’s chicken has huuuge servings that make its 95-buck price (for the whole meal) well worth it. When I saw my takeout order, I was surprised to see one half of the styro container overflowing with the chopped fried chicken (which made me wonder if it was really Pterodactyl chop I’d be consuming). Add 10 pesos and you get soup and rice; 15 if you want creamy pasta. I opted for the latter, and so did J. I also tried out their milk tea, which I found a bit bland. Then again, it may have been because the melted ice already drowned out its flavor. (I only got to taste it when we arrived home.)
They serve the chicken and pork chops with several flavor choices: original, lemon, nori and plum (as in champoy?? I should’ve asked.). J and I both tried the chicken with “original” flavor. It was good, but being the sauce-whore that I am, I guess I would’ve preferred my fried stuff doused with some a lot of gravy. They offer a sweet chili sauce, but I decided to try it without.
All in all though, it was a fulfilling meal. The pasta had a meatless white sauce that wasn’t too salty so it balanced out the chicken’s taste. (J, though, ended up getting rice from the kitchen hehe.) Next time we might just get one serving of chicken (which costs 80 pesos as is) and our carb dish of choice. Mine is still pasta, I think J will be getting rice next time.
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