Chicken Rice Many Styles

We went through a Chicken Rice obsession over the last couple of weekends. It started with my craving for my mum's version of chicken rice. This dish was a great source of comfort while I was growing up where Mum would make it when dad's out entertaining or on business trips. Dad didn't like this dish, I never got round to asking him why since it's so damn yummy.

Ok so here's Mum's Chicken Rice, cooked by yours truly of course:



So that was one weekend, the next weekend, I had a whole load of Thai herbs from BKK and we still didn't get enough of the Chicken Rice.
So I decided to try a Thai style version of the Mum's chicken rice. I was kinda apprehensive initially as I couldn't quite imagine how the flavours of the herbs would come out. Almost ditch the idea altogether at the last minute but thank goodness I didn't cos it turned out heavenly! Just imagine, the flavours of fresh lemon grass, kaffir leaves n loads of garlic cooked with the chicken n rice....topped off with crispy fried sweet basil leaves and chilli padi.
Here's how it looked: