Good quality grilled chicken, where to eat it or take away? What is a good quality chicken ?

[bberrythailand]

Hello,

 

I am not expert but wonder where someone who likes to eat good food would buy a grilled chicken, or at which restaurant he would go ?

 

When I see chicken in Thailand they always look greasy and not healthy, so I guess that they all come from farms where they haven't seen a ray of sun since they are born until they are killed ?

 

Do naturally fed chicken exist in Thailand ? The kind that is not eating more medicine than grain ?

 

Please help me find the best quality chicken in Bangkok or Pattaya.

 

Thank you.

 

[inThailand]

Mackro.

 

I prefer the local shop with spicy sauce and sticky rice.

[Ulysses G.]

Grilled chicken in Thailand is just as good as in the USA and a lot cheaper. I like that you can just buy the portion that you want.

[Andyfez]

I buy from the '5 star chicken' kiosks in some shopping centres and larger petrol stations.

I love the rolled chicken breast.

[dotpoom]

KFC

[malt25]

There's nothing wrong or greasy about the BBQ chicken you find roadside all over LOS.

[shady86]

I recommend Nittiya kaiyang, they use home grown chickens with less fat. Taste good too.

[joebrown]

1 hour ago, Andyfez said:

I buy from the '5 star chicken' kiosks in some shopping centres and larger petrol stations.

I love the rolled chicken breast.

I think 5 Star is the best for size, taste and value. I always buy 1/2 a chicken for 64bht and the seller cuts it into 2 x 1/4, which is plenty for 2 good servings. The garlic & black pepper flavour is delicious IMHO.

[tonray]

Grilled Flattened Whole Chicken Breast on a Stick Outside Saphan Taksin BTS: 90 Baht

 

Very good.

 

Same deal restaurant next to Mall Thaphra: 90 baht...also great with other itens

 

Whole Roasted Chicken: Suttishan-Winichai road in front of 7-11: 120 baht

[KittenKong]

Thailand is the world capital of factory-farmed chicken and it might be quite hard to find any free-range chicken here, especially in the discount supermarkets and regular shops and markets, and these are the places that supply all the chicken stands. So perhaps try places like Tops/Central and Foodland and Villa.  Maybe if you hunt around for a small independent farm you might find something like this: http://hilltribeorganics.com/news/

 

Anyone who has eaten free-range chicken in France or elsewhere will know that the difference is like night and day compared to factory chicken. The price is a lot different also.

 

 

Edited August 9, 2017 by KittenKong

[blackcab]

4 hours ago, bberrythailand said:

...so I guess that they all come from farms where they haven't seen a ray of sun since they are born until they are killed ?

 

You can buy gai baan (free range/not factory farmed chicken) but it's not easy to find. You would have to ask round your locality.

[StraightTalk]

Foodland and Makro for western-type flavored grilled chicken.

[phuketrichard]

whole BBQ chicken at Big C  super ;110 baht

[bberrythailand]

4 hours ago, Ulysses G. said:

Grilled chicken in Thailand is just as good as in the USA and a lot cheaper. I like that you can just buy the portion that you want.

 

 

Sorry but USA is not a reference about any kind of food ! ... oh sorry, yes, maybe about hamburgers :-)

 

I guess that in USA chicken never see the sun also, but it seems that you don't know :-)

 

 

[bberrythailand]

You all come from USA right ? How can you even imagine that she shiitee that you call chicken and that is sold everywhere around Thailand is good ? I am not sure that my dogs would it eat...

 

So I understand that we are among good food experts here :-)

 

If somebody knows what is a real good chicken, please keep posting !

 

 

[bberrythailand]

1 hour ago, KittenKong said:

 

Anyone who has eaten free-range chicken in France or elsewhere will know that the difference is like night and day compared to factory chicken. The price is a lot different also.

 

 

Exactly ! But it seems that these people are not the ones reading this thread...

 

 

[Jonnapat]

Look for the ""Thai chicken"" which will not have lost it's head and are usually free range although you will probably have to cook it yourself. Found at most food markets

[Rancid]

Doubt if many pass by, but Chicken Time in Lopburi have whole oven roasted chicken, not cheap, but large and very succulent, not dried out like most Thai chooks.

[elwood]

2 hours ago, joebrown said:

I think 5 Star is the best for size, taste and value. I always buy 1/2 a chicken for 64bht and the seller cuts it into 2 x 1/4, which is plenty for 2 good servings. The garlic & black pepper flavour is delicious IMHO.

Bought it from several different 5 Star stalls; always very good.

[puffy]

On the whole I find the chicken here awful, stringy and watery or rubbery. The only time I ate good chicken here was free range when I stayed for a few days on a farm. I eat much more pork here as I find the quality much better than the chicken.

[pauleddy]

Tesco chicken is the pits. Injected with water and hormones. Cardboard. Villa is a bit better. Some of the chicken in the street stalls is excellent, but you need to find a favourite.

 

Vietnam has different grades of chicken. In some restaurants one can order black country chicken or top notch plump white chicken. As good as Ive had in French villages.

 

Eddy

[csabo]

There's a hundred chickens running up and down my soi right now. Go take one and eat it. My dog does. Seems to enjoy it maybe you will also. He leaves out the BBQ part though. 

[Requiem]

I like the chicken at Sabai Jai Kai Yang restaurant in Ekkamai. Not sure if it's free range or restricted range or no range at all but tastes darn good.

[renevanb7]

On Samui I always buy at the big C. I tried the grilled chicken from many shops but for me this is the best.  

[csabo]

51 minutes ago, elwood said:

Bought it from several different 5 Star stalls; always very good.

Isn't 5 star a CP subsidiary? I know the smoked breasts come right out of a CP bag. Cheaper to by them at the market. 

[seancbk]

There is a new restaurant that specialises in rotisserie chicken, it's called 'Birds Rotisserie'

https://www.facebook.com/BIRDSRotisserie/

I've not been yet, but friends who have said it was very good.



 

[pennine]

6 hours ago, bberrythailand said:

You all come from USA right ? How can you even imagine that she shiitee that you call chicken and that is sold everywhere around Thailand is good ? I am not sure that my dogs would it eat...

 

So I understand that we are among good food experts here :-)

 

If somebody knows what is a real good chicken, please keep posting !

 

 

Nandos, born in RSA but available in other countries now, excel. Always good quality.

[balo]

Not really a fan of the street food here, but the whole roasted chicken at Big C Xtra Pattaya tastes good and cheap enough  

[Ulysses G.]

8 hours ago, bberrythailand said:

 

 

Sorry but USA is not a reference about any kind of food ! ... oh sorry, yes, maybe about hamburgers :-)

 

I guess that in USA chicken never see the sun also, but it seems that you don't know :-)

 

 

Sounds like you don't know anything about the USA or food. There is all kinds of free range and organic meat, but it does not usually taste any better than some of the more commercial stuff - it is just more expensive and pretentious. 

 

Five Star is the place I used a lot in Thailand - very tasty and convenient.

[zzaa09]

7 hours ago, Jonnapat said:

Look for the ""Thai chicken"" which will not have lost it's head and are usually free range although you will probably have to cook it yourself. Found at most food markets

That's the key.

Purchase local at local markets.

 

Not the "Western-style" supermarkets.

Most outsiders still don't get it.