Gai Pad Khing
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Pad khing is a Chinese-influenced dish that is popular in Laos
and Thailand
. Gai pad khing contains stir-fried chicken and different vegetables like mushrooms, peppers and onions, but other meats may be used. The most important ingredient is the sliced ginger
("khing") which gives the dish a very characteristic taste. It is served with rice. In both countries regular chicken meat is sometimes substituted with chicken gizzards as an added delicacy.
Laos
Laos Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south and Thailand to the west...
and Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
. Gai pad khing contains stir-fried chicken and different vegetables like mushrooms, peppers and onions, but other meats may be used. The most important ingredient is the sliced ginger
Ginger
Ginger is the rhizome of the plant Zingiber officinale, consumed as a delicacy, medicine, or spice. It lends its name to its genus and family . Other notable members of this plant family are turmeric, cardamom, and galangal....
("khing") which gives the dish a very characteristic taste. It is served with rice. In both countries regular chicken meat is sometimes substituted with chicken gizzards as an added delicacy.