SPICY CHEF @100AM is a Hunan-style Chinese restaurant at #02-14A, 100 Tras Street in Tanjong Pagar, Singapore, with a 4.8 rating from 1,444 reviews. Diners call the food delicious and say it stands out in a city crowded with similar restaurants.
Hunan cooking is one of China's hottest regional cuisines — unlike Sichuan food, its heat comes clean and direct rather than numbing, built on fresh chillies, pickled chopped ones and smoky cured pork. A good Hunan kitchen lives or dies by its stir-fries, tossed fast over a fierce flame so the pork stays tender and the chillies blister rather than stew. Expect family-style dishes made for sharing over plenty of plain rice, the sensible counterweight to the spice, and ask what can be tempered if chilli isn't your friend.
In Tanjong Pagar's crowded field of Hunan and Sichuan kitchens, diners here keep coming back to the stir-fried pork, the century egg and the 辣子鸡, or chilli chicken.