Thursday, January 6, 2011

海南雞飯 - Get to know your chicken rice

Chicken rice is a famous dish in Malaysia and Singapore. You can literally find this dish in every food court. This dish originates from China. It also known as Hainanese or Hailam chicken rice.

The dish is prepared using older, plumper birds to maximise the amount of oil extracted, thus creating a more flavourful dish. Over time, however, the dish began adopting elements of Cantonese cooking styles, such as using younger birds to produce more tender meats. In another variation, the bird is dipped in ice after cooking to produce a jelly-like skin finishing, commonly referred to as "white chicken", the meat is cooked by boiling in water flavoured with garlic and ginger instead, with the resulting stock used in the preparation of the rice and also in the accompanying soup.

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