Homemade chicken rice

Singapore's signature dish is chicken rice. One of my students worked in Tokyo at a Singaporean restaurant, and chicken rice was the biggest seller.

The dish seems simple - boiled chicken on a bed of rice, with some veggies (usually cucumber) and chili sauce on the side. But making it at home is not simple.

Hisako and our friend Bev made chicken rice the other day. It was a complicated process of boiling and icing the chicken multiple times, as well as adding special ingredients to the rice while cooking it. And the chili sauce was made more difficult by our lack of a blender or food processor. They chopped it all.

The result was fantastic! I was happy to have enough leftovers to show off at school, too. (the first three photos were taken by Beverley Tai - thanks Bev!)