Old Airport Road Hawker Centre

The one thing i've come to realize after living abroad for a while is that Singaporeans have a strange love for chicken wings. Maybe it's because though there is often more bone than meat, this rather difficult to eat delight has been a staple of our school tuckshops, bbq parties, potlucks and snack counters for years. I don't know if the wing is still a staple at school canteens, since the move to make school food healthier for kids, but i do know that when I was growing up, if you could clean every morsel of meat off a piping hot wing in an oily plastic bag, you would get looks of admiration and maybe even envy. My love affair with the chicken wing began even before i started primary school. In the old days, in sembawang, in chong pang, there was this run down theatre called the sultan theatre. It was a dirty little place but i remember it fondly as we kids got to watch movies for free. Of course you had to be prepared to sit on the grimy step and ignore the roaches. :-) but the most important thing though was the food stalls surrounding the theatre. One of those stalls was a very popular stall that sold really awesome bbq chicken wings. They were bbq-ed over charcoal and people would drive from as far as toa payoh to come eat these succulent wings. I was a HUGH fan and till today i still eat chicken wings almost every week. They don't make bbq chicken like they used to. Most of the time you'll get wings bbq-ed over electric grills but that lacks the smoky flavour of the charcoal variety. The above though is the charcoal variety and it's really really yummy. Not many places do them over charcoal now but at the old airport road hawker centre, they still do. Can you tell how much i like this hawker centre? :-)