Poached chickens and roasted chickens dangle in the window of Hainan Chicken House on Eighth Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Scattered among the plain white tiles on the dining-room walls are other tiles printed with images of chickens.
Hainan Chicken House is dedicated to Hainanese chicken rice, a dish with ancient origins on Hainan Island in southern China.
The owners of Hainan Chicken House are Malaysian New Yorkers, and it is the Malaysian version of chicken rice that they serve, along with curry laksa, mee goreng and a few other classics of the cuisine.
What is called the House Hainan Chicken at Hainan Chicken House comes to the table wrapped in paper, hawker style, and sealed by a sticker printed with an image of a chicken.
Persons:
Hainanese, mee goreng, cleaver
Organizations:
Chicken House, Eighth, Malaysian, Yorkers, Chicken
Locations:
Sunset Park , Brooklyn, Hainan, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Malaysian