Chinese Food-Gai Kow?

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• 1 caroline w // Jul 15, 2008

  Kow Pad Gai (Thai: ข้าวผัดไก่) - literally "chicken stir-fried rice."

• 2 Desi Chef // Jul 15, 2008

  It's actually THAI Chicken Fried Rice:

  Chicken Fried Rice (Kow Pad Gai)

  Ingredients:

  1 Tablespoon vegetable oil (nam man)
  1 Clove garlic (gra tiem), sliced
  1 Chicken breast (gai), sliced
  1 Egg (khai)
  1 Small white onion (haum yai), sliced not too thin
  3 cups cooked white or brown rice (kow), preferably left over rice from the day before.
  2 Tablespoons Thai Soya bean sauce (see iew kow)
  1 Tablespoon black soy sauce (see iew dum) (optional)
  1 Teaspoon sugar (nam tarn)
  1 Teaspoon ground black pepper (prik tai)
  2 Green onions (ton haum), finely chopped
  1/2 cup chopped cilantro (puk she)
  1 Lime juice (nam ma now)
  1 Tablespoon fish sauce (nam pla)

  Directions:

  1. At medium-high heat; brown the sliced garlic in heated oil in 10" wok or stir-fry pan.

  2. Add chicken; cook until no longer pink (about 10 minutes).

  3. Add onion and continue cooking for 5 minutes.

  4. Make room at the center of wok or pan and stir in egg.

  5. Reduce heat to medium. Add Rice, soy sauce, black soy sauce, sugar, pepper and green onion; stir them together (about 5 minutes).

  6. Serve; spring cilantro on top. Season with lime juice and fish sauce as desire.

  Makes 2 servings

• 3 PrplDrgn // Jul 15, 2008

  It means diced chicken.

  Gai = Chicken