WyWy Chicken Rice

Howdy, everyone~! I'm back with more entries for the food blog~! Today we are going to do WyWy Chicken Rice.

This be the front of the restaurant. WyWy Chicken Rice was known back then for being the biggest restaurant franchise in the entire Brunei. Not really sure who owned it (probably a gajillionaire), but they started off as a regular shop who helps to fix phones and PCs until they earned enough to start a hunkabaloo chain of restaurants all over Brunei, even all the way down to KB and Seria.




This be the interior of the restaurant. Despite it being the biggest chain in the history of Brunei and being so bloody popular back then with so many customers that you had to reserve a seat beforehand, it fell from grace because of their pau, because they were caught selling pork pau to the public when it was claimed a Halal (suitable for both Muslim and non-Muslims) restaurant, and the Muslims were outraged, making it all the way through news and radio. We're not sure whether it was really true or was it deliberate sabotage, but the damage was done. No matter how WyWy proclaimed their innocence by revealing their recipe of their pau to the news, the power of the press prevailed and now the poor restaurant has become more or less a ghost town.

This is ye WyWy menu. First off, this restaurant started as specializing in chicken rice only, but then since there were so many chicken rice shops in Brunei, they decided to diversify and become the Jack of All Trades in serving food, so anything you can think of that exist in other restaurants, they have it as well, thus the bloody huge and thick menu

This is how thick the bloody menu is!



This is what's inside. Like I said, everything and anything you can think of is right here. In fact there's so many, you can't even decide what to eat or drink! And the price is a little dear compared to most regular restaurants

This is our drink. We ate together with a friend from Hong Kong, whom my friend knew via couch-surfing. She ordered bandung juice (rose syrup juice), he ordered coconut juice and I ordered sparkling blueberry

This is what our Hong Kong friend ordered: Sambal belacan kangkung with rice. She's vegan and a yoga instructor, so she's gotta eat healthy. Though kangkung is my favourite as well, but unfortunately banned in my in-law's kitchen since she fell hook, line and sinker for a stupid forwarded email about someone who so-called died from eating kangkung that was infested with worm eggs or something. Meh~!

This is what I ordered: Tom Yam fish head meehoon. It's nice, good sour taste (though leaving the overdose of lemon grass in there was overrated) but not spicy enough. I always like my Tom Yam sour and spicy, but it only hit the spicy marker. The fish head didn't really feel like a fish head either, since the shape itself was...unable to be determined. LOL!

This is what my friend ordered: Barbecued squid. Surprisingly, it actually have stuffings in it, and my friend totally enjoyed it. Wish I had his, but I was enjoying my Tom Yam just fine.

There you have it. My findings on WyWy Chicken Rice (though it should just be called 'restaurant' since it no longer specialize in chicken rice anymore). So if you have a craving for something but you don't really want to go too far to get it, just go to the nearest WyWy to get it.