Steven's Western Corner

Review Rating: ⭐⭐ (Below Average)

Address: 1095, Uptown Hawker Centre, Jalan SS 21/39, Damansara Utama, 47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
Google Map Link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/WsX6Aj3oJWWwNU6V7
(Please refer to the Timings provided in the Google Map Link for the Operating Hours.)

🐔 Grill Pepper Chicken with Black Pepper Sauce = RM19.00

No Service Charges

 Here is the Full Menu of the Eatery/Restaurant.
Prices are Accurate as of the Date of the Post.

This was an Old-School Western Food Stall that I came across in my Social Media Feeds 🎥 that has apparently has been around for about 30 years. 🤔 Based on the Google Reviews of this Place, alot of them also mentioned having Nostalgic Memories 从小吃到大 with this Place. ♥️ I love such old places so I gave this a go.

The Actual Place is actually a Hawker Centre Food Stall located in this "Uptown Hawker Centre" in Damansara. 🍽️🤔 Just like its Name suggests, it is literally located at a Corner of this Hawker Centre. Most of the Hawker Centre is Closed when I was there on a Tuesday Evening at around 5.00pm and there weren't any Customers around. 🤔 The Few Customers that I do see mostly order this as Takeaway. 🛍️🤔

The Main Cook is a Middle Aged Chinese Man with 2 Bangladeshi Helpers. 👨‍🍳 While the 2 Helpers were Very Friendly and Jovial, the Main Cook had a Sian Sian Very Tired Look about him. 🤔 He was Polite, but not the Smiling Type of Friendly. 🤔

The Chilli Sauce they have is a Very Typical Bottle Type of Sweet Chilli not unlike KFC Type of Chilli. 🌶️ Nothing Special about this.

Anyway it took 7 Mins for the Dish to be served up as I sat there observing him grilling this fresh. 🤔

🐔 Grill Pepper Chicken with Black Pepper Sauce = RM19.00

Presentation of this Dish has a very 1990s Hawker Centre Western Food type of Plating amusingly served with an Old School Looking Plate too. 🍽️😅 There is a Copious Amount of Black Pepper Sauce slathered on the Chicken Chop very Hawker Centre/Kopitiam Style. 🍯🐔

Alot of Google Reviews and even some Food Blogs describe this Chicken Chop like its the Biggest Chicken Chop in the World. 🐔😳 In Reality however, its just about an Average Regular Palm Sized. ✋😅 Its a Very Standard Sized Butterflied Thigh + Drummy Combo. 🐔

🐔 Quality of the Chicken Chop

What I am impressed is the Black Pepper Sauce. 🍯 It has a Very Gao Gao Robust Black Pepper Presence with a Slightly Elevated Lingering Spicy Heat. 🌶️ Noticeably Spicier than a Regular Black Pepper Sauce that you'd expect. Not Overly Sweet, this was a Decent Sauce. 👍

Pushing back the Sauce, I can see the Chicken Chop is grilled with some Standard, 🔥🐔 the Skin are properly grilled with no Chao Tah. 👍 The Meat is Tender and Juicy and not at all Dry, but that's because it is smothered with that Black Pepper Sauce. 🐔🍯

I agree with some Google Reviewers that this Chicken Chop can be Very Oily. 🤔 This is because as I observed him Grilling this, there wasn't enough time to rest to drip off any Excess Oil before the Black Pepper Sauce was lum all over it. 🐔🍯 While this seals and locks in all the Juices, this also locks in all the Oil. 🍯🤔 Not even the Robust Flavour of this Black Pepper Sauce is able to help cover up this Oiliness. 🤔

The Meat Taste is Decent Acceptable, never Overly Chickeny. 👍 Every Bite of this Chicken Chop has a Good Amount of Black Peppery Goodness from the Sauce but the Presence of Oil is also something that never goes away. 🍯🤔 Very 油腻, perhaps one of the Oiliest Grilled Chicken Chop that I've eaten. 🤔

Quality of the Rest of the Side Dishes

Nothing Special about the Shoestring Fries. 🍟 Lightly Salted, these very obviously taste like its from some Frozen Supermarket Package, not Homemade cut from an Actual Potato. 🥔🤔

In the Above Photo, you can even see him taking a Bag of this out of the Fridge. Unremarkable.

The Sunny Egg 🍳 looked Adorably Small and unfortunately, the Yolk is 100% Completely Cooked thru, 🤔 not the Runny Ooey Gooey Type.

Again as you can see in the Above Photo, the Eggs are all Already Pre-Made sitting on the Plate and not Freshly Fried. 🤔 Such a Pity.

The Coleslaw 🥬 doesn't taste Homemade. Tasted like a Very Generic Supplier supplied type of Coleslaw. 🤔 Sweetish, not unlike the type used by KFC.

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Conclusion and Closing Thoughts

I'll be very honest, at the price of RM19.00 (S$5.80) for this Plate of Grilled Chicken Chop isn't Very Cheap at all even for a Singaporean. 🤔 Even some Google Reviewers complained about the High Price 💵 with many lamenting how high the Price have risen since their Teenage Years. 🤔

I personally found it not worth the money because amusingly there are actually other Western Food Stalls in this Same Hawker Centre that offer a More Affordable Price of RM15.90 for a Similar Dish as you can see. 🤔

Although to be fair I did not review those. Still is it really worth to pay an extra RM3.10 for this? 🤔

Culinarily, the Dish did not impress me. 🤔 It wasn't as Gigantic Huge as many Reviewers claim it to be, and the Quality of the Grilled Chicken is something that anyone with abit of Culinary Knowledge can make at home. 🐔🤔 None of the Side Dishes on offer were Homemade and everything tasted like it was Supermarket Supplied. 🤔 Even the Sunny Egg wasn't Freshly Fried with a 100% Cooked Hard Yolk. 🍳 This is a Very Minimal Effort kind of Chicken Chop.

The Only Thing that is worth of Value is really the Black Pepper Sauce 🍯🤔 which is Decent. But even so it seems to be the Only Thing that the Entire Dish is too reliant on. 🤔

The Chicken Chop is probably not Marinated or Salted and relies 100% on the Sauce for its Taste. 🍯🤔 Slathering the Entire Chicken Chop like this while visually impressive, is also a Culinary Technique to cover up any Shortcomings that the Chicken Chop may have and amusingly doing it this way also highlighted its Biggest Flaw. 🐔😅 Because as Good as the Sauce was, it couldn't cover the Overly Greasiness and Oiliness 油腻 that I tasted with Every Bite. 😅

Despite a 30 Years of History, I'm sorry to say that I don't feel it is worth to specifically come to KL just to eat this. 🤔 Its a Classic Hawker Centre / Kopitiam Styled Western Food Chicken Chop and it is what it is. 🤔 Its not even the most Affordable in this Hawker Centre as I mentioned. 💵🤔

I do apologize if you are someone who has grown up with this Food Stall 从小吃到大 as I see from some of the Nostalgic-Laced Comments of some of the Google Reviewers. 🙏 It is not the intent of this Review to wreck any Sentimental Feelings you may have for this Place. 🙏

Don't let my Score deter you because this is just my Personal Opinion. 🤔 If you are craving for some Western-Styled Chicken Chop 🐔 while you're in the Damansara Area, feel free to swing by this Uptown Hawker Centre to give this a try and form your own opinion. 🐔🤔 Ultimately, its your own taste that really matters.