76. Hainan Chicken Rice at Baos Hog

What happens when you take your first bite of Nashville hot chicken, say the Howlin’ Hot fried chicken at Chinatown’s Howlin’ Ray’s?  You burn your fingers for one thing — the bird is just out of the fryer, and you’ll probably want to tear the...

Fried chicken and Hainan chicken from Maxwell Chicken Rice I eat a lot of fried chicken. The first season of my show “The Bucket List” is all about fried chicken — all nine episodes of it — in which I highlight excellent fried chicken around Los...

Does Los Angeles live by Nashville hot chicken alone? No — not as long as there’s a universe of Asian fried chicken too. Max’s Restaurant Is Max’s the Coco’s of the Philippines? Yes, Max’s is kind of the Coco’s of the Philippines, the Glendale...

In the four years since I originally published my bucket list of the best fried chicken in Orange County, several of those restaurants closed while other strong contenders opened. So it’s time for an update. This rewrite begins with the same...

There are lot of chicken dishes out there and I have only ten slots on this list. So I picked out my faves using my own unscientific criteria of what constitutes a chicken dish, ruling out others because chicken wasn't the star. What remains are...