Bangkok chicken rice plate

White-cut chicken on rice, with its cool cucumber, rip-roar of coriander, bowl of broth and all-important dipping sauce, is my no.1 hawker’s rice. It’s one of those lessons in the deliciously bland, the punchy and the silken, with the cool and crunchy. And I bee-line for it as soon as I hit Bangkok. Forget the bars and temples, this is hedonist heaven. Any number of dipping sauces can be served with it. Just make it.