I'd rather try a good-but-more-expensive place before I tried the cheaper-but-less-good-place, just so I know if I like the dish before ordering more or trying to make it myself. Second, where can I try good 'Palestinian Chicken' (or Musakhan) in Chicago? This bit is a greater part of an 'I want to try X food, and I live in Chicago' question, but for now we're just going for Palestinian Chicken (or Musakhan). Classic falafel Stuffed falafel Egg falafel Chicken shawarma Lamb & beef shawarma Mix shawarma. but from its description I would definitely like to try Musakhan-ish foods, even though it doesn't seem to be 'Palestinian Chicken'. Hero bread, salad, olive, tahini sauce or garlic sauce. So first, does the dish 'Palestinian chicken' mean anything? Doing basic Google searches for it gives me links like Musakhan which don't sound like 'Palestinian chicken', or look like what the characters in the clip above are eating. (while I've never seen the show, a radio show I listen to regularly plays clips from CYE) This is a concept thrust into the public sphere by an episode of Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm, in which the main characters say it is fucking delicious. Bernheimer, her Champagne and the caviar might not be there every night, but you can order the happy chicken anytime.I would like to try Palestinian Chicken. It was as good as you’d imagine (the most elegant chip and dip), made better by the taut minerality and dryness of a glass of Christophe Mignon, Champagne Brut Nature ADN De Meunier, hand-selected by Jill Bernheimer of Domaine L.A. We used our hands to break off pieces of sticky rice, dunked the chicken into a sweet chili sauce and eagerly shoved bites into our mouths like we hadn’t just visited five other restaurants on the way over.īecause it was a chicken holiday, Intrachat also prepared a special dish of fried chicken skins with crème fraîche and caviar. The chicken comes showered in fried shallots, and it’s hard to know where the fried alliums end and the skin begins. We ordered the “happy chicken,” also known as Hat Yai fried chicken or Intrachat’s take on southern Thai fried chicken.

Her servers rushed around the dining room wearing chicken hats for the occasion. When we arrived, chef-owner June Intrachat was in the middle of a busy afternoon service. I was still wiping the sauce from my fingers with a wet wipe when we climbed back into El Gallo and headed west to Otus Thai Kitchen and Coffee on La Brea Avenue.

On a recent Wednesday, National Fried Chicken Day, I found myself in the back of El Gallo, humming “Chicken Techno.” I was on my way to the first stop on a 10-restaurant fried chicken crawl with Kim Prince, chef-owner of Hotville Hot Chicken restaurant at Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza. People stop, stare, laugh, whip out their phones and give an exorbitant number of thumbs-ups. A deep voice repeats “tasty” throughout the song. It involves a series of clucks, squawks, bucks and crows layered over electronic music. At stoplights, or whenever owner Tommy Kendall sees people gawking, he plays the “ Chicken Techno” song, loud, out of an exposed CD player he installed in the glove compartment. His deep red, wavy cockscomb adds an extra foot to the top of his head. He’s a canary yellow 1973 Oldsmobile 98, with a rooster head bolted to the roof of the car and a curved feathery tail attached to the trunk. You may have seen El Gallo cruising the streets of Santa Monica.

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