One of Singapore's national dish is high nannies, Chicken rice.

It's so popular in Singapore that you can find a chicken rice shop in almost every foot card.

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But when most people hear high nannies chicken rise, they don't think of Singapore.

They think of this place Hainan, an island off the southern coast of China.

Hainan, located by the sea, is the Onley tropical island province of China.

But if you go to Hainan, you won't be able to find Hainan Chicken rice.

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So how did this dish called Hainan Chicken rice end up in Singapore idea, Chinese people started migrating to Singapore, then a British colony in the middle of the 19th century, for better opportunities.

Many of them came from southern China because of his close proximity to Singapore.

Hainan was one of the places that send people there.

But because many high ninnies migrants were illiterate, lack skills and specialized jobs and also came later than other Chinese groups like the Hawk in the to Choose and Cantonese the only drops they could find where it's cooked and servants for wealthy European and Chinese families.

The cooks eventually branched out and opened their own coffee stalls and restaurants.

Many of them started selling a dish called wenchong chicken and adapted the recipe to the local palate.

They used younger birds with more tender meat and edit line to their chili sauce to give it a tangy edge influenced by Cantonese taste.

By the 19 fifties, stalls selling Hainan chicken rice could be found all over Singapore, first of all, to trace the history of a particular dish of food.

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Eating and consuming chicken rights becomes a stable.

But how did it become Singapore's national dish?

It's really about who decides that we should spotlight a particular dish.

CNN listed Chicken Rice is one of the top 50 delicious dishes in the world.

Big figures in the culinary world, like chef Gordon Ramsay, have also endorsed.

Chicken Rice is one of the must haves when one business Singapore promotion and marketing from the tourism board that forms and every New York endorsement.

So when Singapore decided to add Hainan Chicken Rice to the UNESCO list off intangible cultural heritage, it could have just been shoot marketing.

But regardless, today, Hannah needs chicken.

Rice can be found all over the world from New York to London, a dish started by high Denise migrants in Singapore, made iconic by tourists marketing.