Hainan chicken rice is maybe my favorite chicken dish — nourishing but not heavy, comforting but not cloying. ... To finish: Fresh ginger cake, of course. David Lebovitz’s recipe, ...

If you didn’t grow up eating the dish, it may be difficult to understand the allure of unassuming poached chicken and rice. Here are two new specialists in the SGV to check out now.

When I was in high school, the plates of chicken and rice were less than $10. My mom prefers the chicken and rice at Cluck2Go in Pasadena, and before it closed, Side Chick at the mall in Arcadia.

This Hainan 2.0 wave is rooted in the Hainan province in Southern China, but evolved from a comfort dish popular in Asian countries like Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, and Thailand — each with ...

The rice at Hainan Chicken House tastes of chicken, but doesn’t taste like chicken; it is especially nuanced, fragrant with jasmine, pandan, lemongrass and fried shallots, among other aromatics.

Raymond Kiang wakes up at 5 a.m. each day to boil his chickens. He picks out his favorites, then plunges them into a cauldron of simmering broth and spices.

Foods are pictured at Andrew Wong Hainan Chicken Rice restaurant in Kota Kinabalu in Sabah, Malaysia, Dec. 3, 2022.(Photo: Xinhua) ...

Wenchang, a city in Hainan, is the birthplace of Hainanese chicken rice. On the island, Wenchang chicken is the basic ingredient for chicken rice. Song Shenmei, 69, is the fourth generation owner ...