The claypot rice here keeps me coming back. I like the mix of good ingredients and skillful cooking. I've been eating at Le Chasseur 乐食轩 since it was at Purvis Street a few years ago and followed it to the junction of New Bridge Road and Carpenter Street. It faces Central at Clarke Quay across New Bridge Road and is just below its overhead bridge.

The claypot rice is now $7.80, uses high-grade basmati long-grained rice, and is cooked to the level that I like - with just enough burnt texture on the sides of the claypot. The lap cheong sausages with the claypot rice are pleasant too. The chicken that goes into it is done moist and soft, unlike most other ordinary cooked chicken. This to me is a hallmark of skill.

They have another option for claypot rice, with different types of lap cheong only. If you like your waxed meats, this might be good for you; I prefer the item 101 claypot rice. Besides these, they have a whole menu of other items such as various soups (I like the watercress, lotus root...), vegetables, local specialties such as curry chicken, mee goreng, the works.

For the claypot rice, be prepared to wait. Your other dishes will come first as it takes time to cook the claypot rice - but my take is that it's worth the wait.

One other item I always order here is their Arabica coffee - nice and robust, much cheaper than your expensive coffee joints too at $2 a cup, served with raw sugar!

Signs on the walls say no service charge, no GST, no MSG, no pigment.

Service staff have changed from the old days, now they are mainly PRC nationals. The one who served me had quite good attitude and decent service. I was impressed with the way he prepared the claypot at my table - better than the previous staff he replaced. Despite little publicity, customer traffic is now pretty good in the evenings, unlike its earlier days. I was surprised to encounter a full house at 7.30pm on Thursday in this quiet location.