Wild grilled chicken attracts customers with ‘divine’ dipping sauce

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HO CHI MINH CITY – Bay Duc is a famous address in Saigon, the charcoal-grilled chicken with special sauce is prepared according to the restaurant’s own recipe.

For decades, Bay Duan restaurant in alley 480, Binh Quoi street has been a familiar address for Saigonese who love country food. The restaurant is famous, the food is delicious and the space is open and spacious.

“Going to Bay Male restaurant, you must eat grilled chicken” is a suggestion for first-timers to the restaurant because this is a “nail” dish, besides dozens of other country dishes such as: fried giant fish, a fried frog with butter, and roti-dove. , snakehead fish porridge, shrimp hot pot, eel, grilled snakehead fish…

For chicken dishes, the restaurant uses baby chickens with size 1.2 kg of firm meat. You can order the whole baby grilled or processed into 1-2 dishes according to your preferences such as steaming onions, cooking porridge for salads, rotiss… Grilled chicken is marinated according to its own recipe, grilled on embers, guests must Waited about 20-25 minutes to be served. The chicken brought to the plate is cut into bite-sized pieces, the skin is crispy and greasy, the meat is sweet, soft and not friable, served with laksa leaves, cucumber, bread or fried sticky rice, dipped in a special sauce. The thick, golden sauce is made from chicken fat secreted during baking, with a slight curry aroma. The shop adds onions and spices to make it less greasy, the sauce is salty, the taste is thick with chicken or sticky rice, and the bread is very rolled.

Ms. Bao Chau, district 7, self-identified as a regular customer of the restaurant, every weekend she and her friends go to Bay Duc restaurant to eat grilled chicken. “I’ve been eating here for a few years now, I’m most impressed with the sauce, which is fatty, salty and very fragrant. Thanks to the ‘divine’ dipping sauce, eating chicken is not boring”, she said the quality of the dish made her happy. so I don’t mind the long way to come here.

As for Mr. Hieu, Chau’s friend also confirmed that in Saigon, if you want to eat grilled chicken, you have to go to Bay Duc restaurant: “This restaurant is famous, now everyone knows, the price is a bit high but the food is delicious”. Mr. Hieu also reminded the restaurant to make dishes for a long time, you have to wait 20-25 minutes.

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The cup of “divine” sauce makes the grilled chicken more delicious. Photo: Huynh Nhi

The restaurant has a rustic style with a corrugated iron roof, turns on the fan, is surrounded by a lake, cool green trees, open from 9am to 9pm every day. The menu does not list the price of each item, you should ask more staff. Grilled chicken served with bread or fried sticky rice. According to the owner’s share, the puffed sticky rice served with chicken when brought to the table still has a round, puffy shape with a yellow outer shell. Then the staff began to deflate, cut into bite-sized pieces, the inside of the sticky rice was soft, the taste was sweet, the outside was crispy, and the oil was drained.

Guests coming to the restaurant are mainly families, large groups of friends, the large yard has a parking space for cars and motorbikes. The road to the shop goes through major traffic junctions, easy to congested like Xo Viet Nghe Tinh leading to Thanh Da. Binh Quoi street is quite small, cars go slowly to avoid each other.

Thanh Da peninsula, Binh Thanh district is surrounded by Saigon River, so it has a cool space, shady with green trees, lots of garden eateries, hammocks, coconut trees, fishing ponds, and shrimp fishing on-site for guests. relax.

Grilled chicken served with fried sticky rice.  Photo: Minh Thu
Grilled chicken served with fried sticky rice. Photo: Minh Thu
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