Succulent, gently poached chicken, soothing soup, fragrant rice and a sparkly ginger-scallion sauce. What’s not to love? By Mia Leimkuhler Kevin Pang’s Hainan chicken rice.Credit...Christopher ...

If you were go to to Hainan island in southern China and ask for Hainan chicken rice, cooks there would probably roll their eyes. Hainan chicken rice isn't called that there, and it's not served ...

It depends on who you ask. The poached chicken and rice dish was invented on Hainan island, China’s southernmost province, but it appears on menus all over Southeast Asia. In Singapore ...

Thai chicken rice, or khao man gai, is similar to Hainan chicken rice in that it's a complete meal: when you order it, you get chicken, rice and a clear broth made from the bones of the bird.

Yes, dear readers — the chicken had gone bad. I had done my homework before visiting Ho Kow Hainan Kopitiam, and a few reviews had mentioned encountering spoiled chicken with the nasi lemak. I never ...