Chilli Chicken
A fiery Indo-Chinese icon
Get directions ↗ · 2 min walk from Grand Mercure
Last orders 30 minutes before closing
Dine-in · takeaway · delivery via GrabFood and LINE MAN
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the chicken boneless?
Yes, we strictly use tender, boneless pieces of chicken thigh for a juicy texture.
How spicy is the Chilli Chicken?
It is quite spicy and fiery, heavily featuring fresh green chilies and chili sauce.
Can I get this with gravy?
Yes, we offer both a dry version for starters and a gravy version to accompany rice.
Is the chicken battered before frying?
Yes, it has a light coating of cornstarch and egg to give it a slightly crisp exterior that holds the sauce.
Does it have a sweet taste?
It has a very subtle hint of sweetness to balance the heat, but it is primarily savory and spicy.
About Chilli Chicken
Chilli Chicken is probably the best-known dish in the Indo-Chinese family, a style of cooking that has nothing to do with North India and isn't quite Chinese either. It grew out of the Hakka Chinese community that settled in Kolkata generations ago, who adapted their home cooking to Indian tastes and ingredients. The result is its own hybrid cuisine, and Chilli Chicken sits right at the centre of it.
At BHARAT we make it with boneless chicken thigh, given a light coating of cornflour and egg and fried so the outside stays slightly crisp and holds the sauce. From there it goes into a hot wok and is tossed with onion, capsicum, soy and vinegar, with green chilli carrying most of the heat and a faint hint of sweetness rounding it off. The chicken is halal-marked and bought fresh from Makro each day, the sauces are made in-house by our chef from Uttarakhand, and there is no pork and no alcohol used anywhere in the cooking, so the dish is halal-friendly. Everything is cooked to order, never held in advance.
You can have it two ways. The dry version, with the sauce clinging tightly to the chicken, works as a starter to pick at; the gravy version gives you more sauce to spoon over rice as a main. It runs on the hot side of our menu, but the chilli is easy to dial up or down, so do tell the kitchen if you want it milder or fiercer. It pairs naturally with steamed rice, Hakka noodles or fried rice.
Eat in at our 30-40 seat dining room in Huai Khwang (try the Dastarkhan floor seating), or get it delivered. Visit BHARAT →
See also: the Chef's Special menu · best Indian food in Bangkok · halal Indian food in Bangkok · order for delivery.