You’d think that a stall that takes the better part of an hour to serve you your food would be, at the very least, decently delicious. Well, 132 Claypot Rice is here to laugh in your face and downright disappoint you.

I’ll admit, I had a craving for claypot rice and I decided to heed a top 10 list on one of Singapore’s biggest food blogs for once. That’s mainly due to the terribly tragic and horribly heartbreaking closure of my favorite (and best in Singapore) claypot rice over at ABC market. When I got to Old Airport Road, I ordered the two person portion, got the little electronic buzzer and happily settled down to await my little earthenware vessel of heaven.

Approximately 50 minutes later, said buzzer starts vibrating like a single woman’s battery operated boyfriend, and I eagerly took said claypot back to my table, mixed it up and slapped a yuge spoonful down onto my bowl. You see, that’s where the trouble began. There was a nice aroma of charcoal smokiness, and the charmingly crispy bits of rice stuck to the sides of the claypot, but there was NO SEASONING.

I’m not even exaggerating, it was beyond bland. The dark soy sauce was really only there for cosmetic purposes as there wasn’t even a hint of sweetness. The rice was boringly bland, and the chicken was so tasteless that a whole gang of brothas and sistas from the ‘hood would probably lynch mob you for disrespecting chicken like that. The only real saving grace were the slices of lup cheong, and there wasn’t even remotely near enough of that to even begin to salvage this dish.

This review might sound incredibly harsh, but it only just begins to scrape at the surface of my disappointment. After seeing all the good reviews online, and the hangry anticipation after waiting nearly an hour, my disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.