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.

“The most important thing is to get fresh chicken,” he says. “That, and how much time you cook it in the broth.” Xiao serves his chicken with a ginger paste, dark soy and a side of pickled ...

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Chefs Are Playing With the Flavors of Hainan Chicken Rice, and the Results Are Fantastic. From San Gabriel Valley to Koreatown, chefs are making new versions with fish and in sandwich form.

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.

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Singapore’s Hainan chicken rice We asked our readers to tell us about a dish they’d fly for and Twitter user Esther Kofod says she’d fly to Singapore for the nation’s most famous rice dish ...

The famous regional Chinese dish of poached, skin-on chicken and seasoned rice has made its way to San Leandro. Special Hainan Chicken, now open at 699 Lewelling Blvd., Suite 104, serves this ...