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

[grollies]

OP, our house. Chicken wings marinated in soy, oyster sauce, garlic and pepper.

 

Five Star chicken is some of the worst 'street food' I've ever eaten. CP hormone-stuffed crap. Raised gai ban here but is too gamey for me.

 

Bettagrow are doing certified, hormone-free chicken. Try buying some and cooking it yourself.

[bberrythailand]

9 hours ago, puffy said:

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.

 

Pork being the worst meat that can exist.... no thank you :-)

 

 

[bberrythailand]

9 hours ago, csabo said:

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. 

 

I will let it for you if your dog likes it...

 

 

[bberrythailand]

2 hours ago, Ulysses G. said:

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.

 

If I know nothing about USA you really know nothing about food. It's because poor cheap charlies like you eat the shiiitee sold in supermarket that it is now hard for people with taste to find good quality food !

 

 

[JohnLick]

9 hours ago, seancbk said:

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.



 

800 thb for a whole chicken? Is it fed by salmon and tuna?

[seancbk]

3 hours ago, JohnLick said:

12 hours ago, seancbk said:

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.



 

800 thb for a whole chicken? Is it fed by salmon and tuna?

It's called eating in a quality restaurant.   

800 for a whole chicken, cooked wonderfully, with a load of sides is a bargain.   You can pay more than that for one cocktail in some of the bars I go to in Bangkok.

 

[tutsiwarrior]

in the afternoons at traditional markets there's loads of folks grilling chicken and pork on skewers over charcoal...quite nice and cheap as well, usually basted with a nice sauce...3 skewers will do ye with some sticky rice on the side...

 

 

[thehelmsman]

2 hours ago, seancbk said:

It's called eating in a quality restaurant.   

800 for a whole chicken, cooked wonderfully, with a load of sides is a bargain.   You can pay more than that for one cocktail in some of the bars I go to in Bangkok.

 

You're awesome. For 800 Bht  I can buy many bottles of large Leo's and some good ole bbq'd roadside chicken, som tam and sticky rice.

 

Eating out in nice restaurants, I usually stick with seafood.

[Thian]

Once i ordered a chicken in Chokchai steakhouse BKK, i got it luke warm coming out of the microwave. 

 

5star is good

 

Makro has big chickens, grilled for 140 baht...never tried them...are they good?

 

There are some chickenrestaurants with freerange chickens but they have NO meat at all and are not cheap.

You can find them by the huge chickenstatue outside at the road.

 

If you eat a lot of Thai chicken you'll get boobies....yes even men can get them....

[grollies]

11 minutes ago, Thian said:

Once i ordered a chicken in Chokchai steakhouse BKK, i got it luke warm coming out of the microwave. 

 

5star is good

 

Makro has big chickens, grilled for 140 baht...never tried them...are they good?

 

There are some chickenrestaurants with freerange chickens but they have NO meat at all and are not cheap.

You can find them by the huge chickenstatue outside at the road.

 

If you eat a lot of Thai chicken you'll get boobies....yes even men can get them....

Doesn't matter where you eat cheap chicken, Thailand, UK, States...you'll get your boobies.

 

All factory-farmed 45 day chicken is fed growth hormone, worldwide. We looked at starting a chicken farm. Watching a one day old chick grow to full size in just over a month is quite something and put me off eating it.

 

Thailand actually has better standards of farmed chicken than the UK if you go by number of chickens per sq.m.

 

We used to have gai ban but I didn't like the taste of either the eggs or chicken meat.

 

Now got a RIR rooster and will start raising eating chickens.

 

Makro chicken is rank. Every time we go we avoid the meat section as it stinks, round the chicken section especially.

Edited August 10, 2017 by grollies

[Thian]

1 minute ago, grollies said:

Doesn't matter where you eat cheap chicken, Thailand, UK, States...you'll get your boobies.

 

All factory-farmed 45 day chicken is fed growth hormone, worldwide. We looked at starting a chicken farm. Watching a one day old chick grow to full size in just over a month is quite something and put me off eating it.

 

Thailand actually has better standards of farmed chicken than the UK if you go by number of chickens per sq.m.

 

We used to have gai ban but I didn't like the taste of either the eggs or chicken meat.

 

Now got a RIR rooster and will start raising eating chickens.

Well i don't need no 45 day chicken but also not the skinny freerange ones from Thailand. 

 

Just a healthy chicken which got proper food during it's life would be perfect for me. I will pay more for those  if i only knew where to buy.

 

Europe has a big scandal now over poisened chickeneggs. I wished they also tested the Thai eggs with the same testingmethods.

 

 

[bberrythailand]

6 hours ago, tutsiwarrior said:

in the afternoons at traditional markets there's loads of folks grilling chicken and pork on skewers over charcoal...quite nice and cheap as well, usually basted with a nice sauce...3 skewers will do ye with some sticky rice on the side...

 

 

 

We are trying to find quality food ! Please stop talking about dog food !

 

 

[Thian]

6 minutes ago, bberrythailand said:

 

We are trying to find quality food ! Please stop talking about dog food !

 

 

Well you don't know which market he's referring to. Maybe they really have good chickens there, who knows?

 

Real dogfood is everything like chicken-nuggets or similar. But loads of people love it...or the chickenelbows that thai love to eat as a snack.

Edited August 10, 2017 by Thian

[bberrythailand]

2 minutes ago, Thian said:

Well you don't know which market he's referring to. Maybe they really have good chickens there, who knows?

 

Real dogfood is everything like chicken-nuggets or similar. But loads of people love it...or the chickenelbows that thai love to eat as a snack.

 

People eat shiiite, it's famous.

 

It's not because they like it that it's quality food, and most of the time, it is not. Travel to Italy and you will understand what I mean.

 

 

[Thian]

16 minutes ago, bberrythailand said:

 

People eat shiiite, it's famous.

 

It's not because they like it that it's quality food, and most of the time, it is not. Travel to Italy and you will understand what I mean.

 

 

I'm just home from a rountrip in Italy. Yup the food is crap but there are a few nice things as well. Hotels are bad but they do have good restaurants as well.

 

In a 4* hotel in Italy i got chicken (after the salad and pasta)..the chickenleg was far overcooked in the oven and was not nice at all. Italy is a bit like Thailand, just do something and if nobody complaints you did a good job. The 4* hotel also was dreadfull and impossible to have 4* at the door.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sandyf]

On 8/9/2017 at 9:22 AM, blackcab said:

 

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.

Not easy to eat either, we have a lot on our land and tough as old boots, same with our turkeys. Free range here in Thailand is not to be recommended for the foreigner.

Most supermarkets and CP stalls offer fairly good roast chickens, in particular the CP one stuffed with herbs.

[grollies]

1 hour ago, Thian said:

Well i don't need no 45 day chicken but also not the skinny freerange ones from Thailand. 

All the UK supermarkets sell nice-looking, plump chickens, same here in Thailand. But the vast majority are the 45 day chickens, fed with growth hormone.

 

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Just a healthy chicken which got proper food during it's life would be perfect for me. I will pay more for those  if i only knew where to buy.

Like I posted earlier, bettagrow are advertising antibiotic-free (or hormone-free, can't remember which) chicken on TV. You are looking for plump, free-range chicken, you'll struggle to find it here and by their very nature, free range birds aren't going to be plump.

 

Our egg-laying chickens, once they stop laying, will go for 'chicken on a stick' street food, same as the majority of battery hens.

 

What do you consider proper food? We use a proprietary brand layers pellets, chickens are free-range and spoilt to death. 

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Europe has a big scandal now over poisened chickeneggs. I wished they also tested the Thai eggs with the same testingmethods.

 

 

Our eggs are the best you'll get anywhere, happy hens. Pesticide and herbicide we don't use and the sheds are washed down with hypochlorite solution every couple of months.

 

We are gradually setting up and selling 'chemical-free' veg, starting with chillie, long chilli, tomatoes, eggs, banana. Just a hobby, nothing commercial though.

 

Wifey is already giving three free limes with every tray of eggs she sells to get a bit of a market going. Trouble is it's only better-off Thai people buying as the average worker round here isn't interested in quality, only cost. When you earn B300/day you ain't buying tomatoes for more than the cheapest around, no matter how good they are.

 

So, unless we can expand our sales to the better-off, we'll have to sell to locals at market price.

[Thian]

2 minutes ago, grollies said:

All the UK supermarkets sell nice-looking, plump chickens, same here in Thailand. But the vast majority are the 45 day chickens, fed with growth hormone.

 

Like I posted earlier, bettagrow are advertising antibiotic-free (or hormone-free, can't remember which) chicken on TV. You are looking for plump, free-range chicken, you'll struggle to find it here and by their very nature, free range birds aren't going to be plump.

 

Our egg-laying chickens, once they stop laying, will go for 'chicken on a stick' street food, same as the majority of battery hens.

 

What do you consider proper food? We use a proprietary brand layers pellets, chickens are free-range and spoilt to death. 

Our eggs are the best you'll get anywhere, happy hens. Pesticide and herbicide we don't use and the sheds are washed down with hypochlorite solution every couple of months.

 

We are gradually setting up and selling 'chemical-free' veg, starting with chillie, long chilli, tomatoes, eggs, banana. Just a hobby, nothing commercial though.

 

Wifey is already giving three free limes with every tray of eggs she sells to get a bit of a market going. Trouble is it's only better-off Thai people buying as the average worker round here isn't interested in quality, only cost. When you earn B300/day you ain't buying tomatoes for more than the cheapest around, no matter how good they are.

 

So, unless we can expand our sales to the better-off, we'll have to sell to locals at market price.

Well i never had a chicken but i would feed it real food, like corn, wheat, seeds, plants, anything from the farm...but no premixed stuff from a company. For those chickens i would pay extra.

 

There are plenty of upscale markets in BKK, there are some famous farmers who sell freerange grilled bbq chicken and those have long qeueu's at their stand. We also bought some and they costed 300 baht for a whole chicken iirc.  They were nice but for that price not good enough and still skinny.

 

Living/selling upcountry is totally different than downtown BKK. My friend in BKK drives 2 hours to get real beijing ducks for 2000 a piece...he buys/gives them to his whole family about every sunday.

But the shop who sells those ducks is in some crappy neighbourhood, not anywhere near the skytrains/metros.

 

Betagrow should sell good chickens, they are already expensive farmers so should deliver high quality for that price.

[p_brownstone]

You can buy fresh free range chicken online at :

 

https://www.passiondelivery.com/products?shop_id=3&sort_by=name_asc

 

Probably the best cooked chicken I have had in Bangkok is from the well known "Jae Kee" in Soi Polo (Soi Sanam Klee) on Wireless Road, just before the Lumpini Police Station - but it's fried not grilled. Even the "Hi So" members of the Polo Club down the Soi send their drivers to buy there and eat at the Club.

 

Patrick

 

 

[seancbk]

On 8/10/2017 at 5:01 AM, thehelmsman said:

You're awesome. For 800 Bht  I can buy many bottles of large Leo's and some good ole bbq'd roadside chicken, som tam and sticky rice.

 

Eating out in nice restaurants, I usually stick with seafood.

Sometimes I too drink LEO, although if I'm on beer night I prefer Asahi.   

Street food might be tasty, but I prefer to be sat in a restaurant being waited on.

The OP wanted to know where to get the best quality chicken in Bangkok, I posted a place that is arguably the best.  

Here is another option - http://www.cocotte-bangkok.com 


 

[tryasimight]

On 8/9/2017 at 8:47 PM, bberrythailand said:

 

Pork being the worst meat that can exist.... no thank you :-)

 

 

In your opinion only. Religiously motivated perhaps?

[tryasimight]

On 8/10/2017 at 1:47 AM, seancbk said:

It's called eating in a quality restaurant.   

800 for a whole chicken, cooked wonderfully, with a load of sides is a bargain.   You can pay more than that for one cocktail in some of the bars I go to in Bangkok.

 

Stop buying lady drinks....you'll find it a lot cheaper.

[tryasimight]

On 8/10/2017 at 9:45 AM, bberrythailand said:

 

People eat shiiite, it's famous.

 

It's not because they like it that it's quality food, and most of the time, it is not. Travel to Italy and you will understand what I mean.

 

 

Define quality food

[grollies]

41 minutes ago, tryasimight said:

Define quality food

Unprocessed?

[tryasimight]

Just now, grollies said:

Unprocessed?

Raw chicken?

[grollies]

55 minutes ago, tryasimight said:

Raw chicken?

?

[bberrythailand]

4 hours ago, tryasimight said:

In your opinion only. Religiously motivated perhaps?

 

If you could use internet for something else but facebook you would know that it's obviously the truth.

 

Pigs are dirty animals and are injected automatically antibiotics from the day they are born, and they also have many diseases.

 

 

[bberrythailand]

I am still shock how much people know nothing and want to spend the minimum for what they eat.

People deserve their cancer. If they had spent more on their food than on their mobile, they could still be alive.

But yes, I understand that if your parents give you <deleted> to eat, you think that <deleted> is good.

 

 

[tryasimight]

8 minutes ago, bberrythailand said:

 

If you could use internet for something else but facebook you would know that it's obviously the truth.

 

Pigs are dirty animals and are injected automatically antibiotics from the day they are born, and they also have many diseases.

 

 

No dirtier than any other farm animal. Many farm animals have antibiotics administered.

I think you are projecting your own prejudice.

I never use facebook.   

Sounds like I may have hit a nerve.

[tryasimight]

I like eating pork...and bacon...and ham and will continue to do so until the cows come home........then eat them as well!