It is a relatively cheap meal ($3-$4) and can be purchased at many of the coffee shops or hawker centres in Singapore. However, it is also available at restaurants, though the price is often many times the price of a regular meal in a coffee shop. Chicken rice is often served with a soup that has been flavoured through cooking the chicken with spices and seasoned. Some locals believe that the taste of chicken rice is brought out when the chicken is a 'kampong' chicken, which is in other words, a free ranging chicken.
The popularity and fame of the dish is such that it is even served at international expositions and global events abroad, as well as on the Singapore Airlines flight as one of the optional inflight meals.
There are regional variations in this dish in Malaysia and Thailand as well. In Malacca, Malaysia, the chicken rice is served in the shape of rice balls. In Thailand, the chicken rice appears to be rather similar to the kind served in Singapore, but it is called khao man kai.
The following is a link to a recipe to cook this much loved Singapore dish.
http://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes/hainanese-chicken-rice
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainanese_chicken_rice
- Hanyi Wong
No comments:
Post a Comment