THE RECOGNISED “PAI TEE MAH” (MUSLIM-OWNED) HAINANESE CHICKEN RICE RUNNING ON THE NORTHERN NATION @ KEDAH
“Hainanese Chicken Rice” also commonly known the Hainan Chicken Rice is all the while a kind of the Chinese Hainan’s authentic delicacy eatery which being widely practised & taken not only by the local Chinese but all the races/religious on our nations with respective home recipes on the ground. Here on the northern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended (Muslim-Owned) Hainanese Chicken Rice Shop “Pai Tee Mah” running at Sungai Petani, Kedah having great positive response from the market recently.
The Pahang local originated Encik Hairun Azwan Bin Zakaria (born 1989), together with his wife Cik Nurul Azima Binti Mohd Idrus (Kedah, born 1989) were the initial founders and also the immediate recent couple-owners of this best recognised Hainanese Chicken Rice Shop “Pai Tee Mah Nasi Ayam Hey-Nan” right along the Sungai Petani township presenting their home-cooked hainan chicken rice recipes with other signature menus to the locals & visitors under a roof on the northern ground at Kedah.
The founder cum first owner Hairun Azwan B. Zakaria (Azwan), who at his age of 36 years old currently, been formerly more than 10 years in the Media Entertainment Industry all the while having interest in culinary & eatery. Added his (with wife Nurul Azima) patients in the food & beverage and foreseeing the market opportunity in the field especially the hainanese chicken rice wishing to bring towards the Malay’s awareness allowed them been given a chance to passed onto the authentic hainanese chicken rice recipes by their master Chef Hassan Heng (an experienced Hainan Chicken Rice chef) then began with their very initial roadside stall along the Lorong Minato at Sungai Petani in the end of year 2023 named the “Pai Tee Mah Nasi Ayam Hey-Nan” (by Pick Thrift Legacy) for a year. Later-on being expanded and moved into their very first owned Hainanese Chicken Rice Shop along the Jalan Patani (recent location) in the early of year 2025 continue serving all their signatures to the public. And finally being recognised among the best in town by the Malaysian F&B E-Media for the year of 2025 on the northern nation at Kedah.
In this Pai Tee Mah Nasi Ayam Hey-Nan, the owners’ very first top recommended in menus surely will be their famous “Nasi Ayam Steam” (Poached Chicken) which most wanted by their visitors recently. Local daily fresh chicken on weight of about 1.8-1.9kg commonly selected, cleaned then followed by about 20 minutes poached/boiled in their chicken soup base (prepared in at least half & hour in-house), soaked for 15 minutes in cooling/ice water to keep the chicken smoothness & meat’s juicy, finally served in fine cutted pieces furnished with their home-mixed oyster sauce dressed of shallot oil and sides of fresh cucumber, red carrot & lettuce salad, taken sided with a plate of their hot home-boiled aroma fragrance oil rice will always the best combination of eatery that you must have a try when reached Sungai Petani, Kedah.
Secondly will be their signature “Nasi Ayam Roasted”, will always the restaurant’s daily selection wanted by the locals here. Also daily fresh chicken selected, cleaned then prepared in about 10-15 minutes deep fried, served in cutted pieces with their special home-mixed soy sauce broth mixture onto shallot oil and sides also with vege salad (cucumber, red carrot & lettuce) will brings another nice salty sweet tasty swallowed with juicy chicken meat’s bites kind of their roasted chicken eatery that you cannot aside. Taken dipping onto their savoury homemade chili & ginger paste will always the perfect matching here.
Other than chicken selections, their “Nasi Itik Roasted” is also among the visitor’s favourite in menus with limited serves daily. Local fresh feeded duck on weight of about 2.3kg commonly selected, cleaned than marinated with their home spices & seasonings mixture followed by about 45 minutes deep fried, and finally served with their salted sweet soy sauce broth also complete with fresh vege salad sided will brings the excellent duck meat’s fresh texturing bites itself into mouth that you will neither found the same elsewhere in town here.
While in the side-dishes corner, the owners also introduced their all time recommended signature crispy “Homemade Pai Tee” with options of vege original, chicken prawn (ayam & udang), crab stick (isi ketam), sosej (chicken sausage) or mix on customer’s preference that you will never regret after tasted. Also their deep fried dumpling (wantan), boiled veges with oyster sauce and others taken in set with your chicken rice meal here that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Hainanese Chicken Rice Shop “Pai Tee Mah Nasi Ayam Hey-Nan” (by Pick Thrift Legacy) at Sungai Petani, Kedah.
PAI TEE MAH NASI AYAM HEY-NAN
(PICK THRIFT LEGACY)
Address: No. 15,
Jalan Patani,
08000 Sungai Petani,
Kedah.
Business Hours: 11:00am to 9:30pm (Daily)
(Closed on Monday)