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No. 41 in the world · November 2026
Hat Yai
No. 41The one piece to order
Hat Yai fried chicken with roti and curry
Portland Monthly's 2026 guide still calls it the pinnacle of Hat Yai-style Thai fried chicken in the city.
Make it at home
Thai fried chicken (gai tod Hat Yai) with crisp shallots and sweet chilli
2 hr marinate, 45 min · 4, with sticky rice. Southern Thailand's fried chicken: a pounded marinade of coriander root, garlic and white pepper, a thin rice-flour coat, and a heap of shallots fried golden on top. Eaten with sticky rice, sweet chilli sauce and som tam.
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