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No. 52 in the world · November 2026
Mahaniyom
No. 52The one piece to order
Thai fried chicken with the bar snacks
A Thai bar whose fried chicken Boston's critics keep naming.
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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