This was the item that Kok Mun asked me to try out on his behalf on my trip to Taipei. He was not able to tried it on his trip earlier this year because of the long queue. People waited for half an hour just to buy this chicken chop.
I have been warned not to go to Shilin night market in weekend.So, I went there on thursday evening. Even that, we were lucky to join the queue with only 5 persons in front of me before a large group of mainland Chinese tourists suddenly made the queue 50 meter long.
The queue was long because the store insists on cooking the chicken chop upon receiving your order and serving you the chicken chop sizzling hot. For 50 Taiwanese dollar (equivalent to about RM5 or S$2.20), this big piece of chicken chop really worth your money.
The chicken chop is fried and flavoured with pepper salt. Unlike chicken chop here, which is essentially a big piece of chicken thigh, the entire piece of Hot Star chicken chio is made of chicken breast meat. It tastes good, but I would say not exceptional to the extent that worth half an hour wait.
On a cold and windy winter evening, a piece of hot chicken chop like this certainly warmed me up. As for drink, I wanted to try out the famous Taiwanese jade white bitter gourd juice.
The jade white bitter gourd juice tasted a little bitter, but left your mouth with a tinge of bitter sweet after taste.
On my visit to Tamshui Fishermen Wharf on Saturday, I found out that Hot Star chicken chop is sold there too. There was no long queue there. I was issued a number upon payment. When the chicken chop was ready, they called out the number and I collected the chicken chop sizzling hot from them.
Perhaps due to the cold and windy weather, there weren't many people in Tamshui Fishermen Wharf on that day. Most of the visitors were Malaysian tourists. I was told that this place is crowded with people in summer.
