We arrived at District 3 and looked for the restaurant called Cơm Gà Xối Mỡ Su Su for quite sometime. Then, only realised that the shop was moved to a new location after we failed to locate and did some internet searching on the shop.
We were much happy when we finally saw the Cơm Gà Xối Mỡ Su Su shop signage from the taxi which drove us there, because all of us were so hungry and it was almost 1.30pm and we did not have our lunch.
There was not much customers in the shop when we arrived. We sat down on a table and the shop assistant brought us the menu. We have been given two different choices, the leg or the wing. We decided to order 2 sets of chicken legs and 2 sets of chicken wings with fried rice.
Cơm Gà Xối Mỡ Su Su is so famous is because the owner have a different way in making the fried chicken. When the Owner saw Alvin and I taking photos, and a video of how the fried chicken being prepared, he personally came up to us, and explained to us about this commercial cooking inventions.
The owner of Cơm Gà Xối Mỡ Su Su was an absolute character, and an incredibly friendly and nice man. To our surprise his English is really good. He is a mechanic or mechanical engineer. We can really saw some mechanical parts at the back of his shop.
This is really one-of-a-kind deep fryer literally rained boiling hot oil over a piece of chicken, making the chicken golden and crispy within a few minutes. The chicken was pre-cooked, probably about 90%, maybe just in an oven.
As soon as the customers orders come in, the shop assistant would grab the lengthy pair of tongs, and toss in the pieces of chicken, and let it sizzle on the poring fountain of hot oil. This is the final crispy-frying process, till the chickens turns to golden brown colour.
The owner is so friendly and decided to invite Alvin to test out the machine for himself, and handed him the long tongs. He even volunteer himself to take Alvin’s photos when handling the chicken.
Well, felt pretty good to take a piece of chicken, stick under the waterfall of hot brown oil, and watch it slowly turn from yellow white to golden brown. It was really fun in watching the home made oil-raining machine.
I am sure there must be some oil change sometimes in between a day – but as a lover of street food (one who travels for unique food experiences), this waterfall, raining deep frying machine, had me totally enthralled.
What I can say is that, the owner is really a genius in modified or invent the hand-made street food cooking devices.
Along with the raining oil fried chicken machine, the owner too invented his unique stir frying machine too. He sort of stir fried the rice and let the propeller spin at the same time, stir frying that rice in a whirl of motion.
Our meals came - a full plate of a chicken leg and thigh attached or chicken wings with breast meat attached, with the orange fried rice, a garnish of cucumbers and tomatoes, and a little side dish of his famous sauce.
The fried chicken, which had just been anointed in hot raining oil, was golden brown, crispy on the outside and moist on the inside.
It was without doubt a bit on the oily side, but it was definitely worth every bite, especially when combined with the owner’s special recipe of the sauce and rice.
Alvin took a selfie with the owner of the shop, and we took a group selfie too, before we left the Saigon famous waterfall fried chicken! It was really a worthy trip to eat here!
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