Bangkok: It’s the Sauce, Stupid!

No matter where you are in Bangkok, a khao mun gai vendor is only a stone’s throw away. Just look for a row of cooked chickens hanging from hooks on a stall. The chicken—either fried or boiled, with skin or without—provides the protein. The rice is slowly boiled in chicken broth. The salivating taste comes from the dark red spicy sauce, nam jim, that sm…