Char Siew Chicken Rice

Chicken Char Siew

My wife cooked Char Siew Chicken and Chicken Rice for lunch today. She put together about a dozen chicken drumsticks in a container to marinate. And then, left them overnight in the fridge. The chicken drumsticks were marinated with four spoons of char siew sauce, two spoons of hoisin sauce and one spoon of oyster flavoured sauce. Leaving the chicken drumsticks in the fridge overnight would allow the chicken meat to slowly absorb the marinating sauce. We use the same technique to marinate char siew pork. And every time, the process turns out to be satisfactorily flavourful.

Char Siew Chicken Rice

The chicken rice was cooked with Hainanese Chicken Rice Paste that we bought from T&T Supermarket. There are several brands on the shelves at the Asian section in the supermarket. And we have kind of tried most of them. And majority are good. The difference are in the pricing. But we like the brand that says, "Hainanese Chicken Rice Paste" which is a product from Thailand. And also, this is one of the cheapest on the shelves. I normally cook chicken rice from scratch but with the Hainanese chicken rice paste, it is so much easier and no hassle with ginger, chicken fat, garlic and so on. For each cup of rice, I add two spoons of the Hainanese chicken rice paste into the rice pot.