Khao kai op (?????????; shown above) is a dish of slices of marinated chicken served over rice. Si Samorn Lert Rot, a restaurant just off Th Convent in Bangkok’s Silom area, claim to have been serving the dish for 50 years - an allegation seemingly backed up by their cool old-school sign:
“Op” literally means to bake, but when I asked about their oven, the woman preparing the dish at Si Samorn replied that the meat was in fact deep-fried. “I don’t know why they call it that,” she added. Regardless, the chicken is expertly “baked” in a wok of hot oil until tender and moist. It’s then sliced and served over rice and topped with a rich, oily and extremely garlicky sauce. It’s a simple, satisfying dish, and this is allegedly one of the more famous places in Bangkok to eat it.
The meat is also available over noodles. I had the pork - also deep-fried, and also well-seasoned and tender - with thin rice noodles and a dollop of the previously-mentioned sauce:
Good, but it didn’t quite come together as well as the rice version.
Highly recommended.
Si Samorn Lert Rot
Soi Phiphat 2, Bangkok
6.30am-3pm Mon-Sat
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