Photo of the week: Chicken Chop Rice @ Pho 888, Box Hill

I really miss working in Box Hill. It was a great office where I made some great friends and I was pretty much always happy and carefree. Part of the enjoyment of working in Box Hill was the location and being in very close proximity to the town centre and the numerous and very good Asian restaurants nearby. Pho 888 is definitely one of those and I'm not really sure why I didn't go there more often, probably because there was so much choice around the area. My colleagues and I would try to make the time to go out together for lunch once a fortnight and on one of these occasions we ended up at Pho 888.

While some my colleagues went for a big bowl of pho or some rice paper rolls, I chose the Chicken Chop on Rice. This turned out to be an amazing—the chicken chop was a huge piece of chicken thigh butterflied out and marinated with plenty of lemongrass and other flavoursome goodness. This rendered the meat SO well flavoured and juicy while being super super charry. The charry lemongrass goodness also permeated the rice which sits below. I even enjoyed the token vegetables on the side, which included pickled carrot. In order words, everything on the plate was delicious and I thoroughly enjoyed it.