Who's up for some pak cham gai?

Hainanese chicken rice, yum.

The best-tasting ones are made with a capon.

I still wonder why the put slices of cucumbers as a side dish, even after nearly 30 years of eating it...

AdventZero said:

I still wonder why the put slices of cucumbers as a side dish, even after nearly 30 years of eating it...

as a South-east Asian myself, it's just a tradition to put some fresh vegetables when we're eating meat (chicken or whatever, fried or roasted). Usually with cabbage, cucumber and green eggplant.

I think there's a health-related explanation about it, but I'm not good enough to explain it here.

Tempting the puppy with delicious meats.

Hainan chicken rice is delicious. I tend to leave the chicken though.

Mouth...watering....Must...head to local Hainanese place...

If there's one thing I miss about my yearly trip to Singapore, it's eating delicious chicken rice every other day.

B016 said:

as a South-east Asian myself, it's just a tradition to put some fresh vegetables when we're eating meat (chicken or whatever, fried or roasted). Usually with cabbage, cucumber and green eggplant.

I think there's a health-related explanation about it, but I'm not good enough to explain it here.

Not really, it's only meant as decoration (as in, nobody ate that afterwards. Those fancy rose tomatoes, those cucumber slices too usually not eaten). The 'tradition' stems from some chinese dynasy food, it seems. Japanese too puts shredded cabbage when serving deep-fried meat dish, such as chicken fillet or katsudon but for dietary reasons (they ate it).