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Kai yang

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Kai yang is a grilled chicken dish of shared origin among the Lao and Thai peoples, eaten throughout Laos and Thailand as a common street market staple. A whole chicken is typically halved and flattened, marinated, and grilled slowly over low charcoal heat so that it cooks through without burning or drying out. The marinade usually contains fish sauce, garlic, turmeric, coriander root, and white pepper, with regional variations adding soy sauce, hoisin, shallots, lemongrass, chilies, ginger, vinegar, palm sugar, or MSG. It is traditionally served with green papaya salad and sticky rice, or with raw vegetables and spicy sauces such as Laotian jaew bong; the town of Seno in Laos is particularly well known for its version. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Laos 1
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Source Kai yang (Wikipedia)

In Cuisine

Thai Cuisine, Cuisines
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1. Kai yang (Wikidata)
P495 (country of origin): Laos
Quote, P495 (country of origin): Laos
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Kai yang (Wikipedia)
  • Expresses Tradition: Street Food Culture, Wikipedia category: Category:Street food
  • In Cuisine: Thai Cuisine, lead paragraph
    Kai yang or gai yang (Thai: ไก่ย่าง, pronounced [kàj jâːŋ], lit. 'grilled chicken'), also known as kai ping or gai ping (Thai: ไก่ปิ้ง), or pīng kai (Lao: ປີ້ງໄກ່, [pîːŋ kāj]), is a dish of shared origin from Lao and Thai peoples commonly eaten throughout the regions of both Laos and Thailand.
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