Kao Mun Gai appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Kao mun gai · Oakland
Oakland's Thai chicken-rice classic comes through James Syhabout's Hawking Bird, the casual Temescal sibling to two-star Commis. Poached chicken on garlic rice.
Kao mun gai is Bangkok's hawker staple, a one-plate dish of poached chicken over garlic-and-ginger rice with chili-soybean sauce. James Syhabout, raised in his mother's Thai restaurant in San Leandro, brought the dish to Oakland in 2017 with Hawking Bird on Telegraph Avenue. The room runs the dish under fifteen dollars in keeping with its hawker origins.
Where to eat in Oakland:
- Hawking Bird
- Champa Garden
- Vientian Cafe