Taishi Hainan Chicken — Restaurant in Redondo Beach

So glad I finally found a great hainese chicken place near my area! The best part is that it is also a thai chinese hainese chicken place, and it honestly makes me so happy since I grew up eating chicken over rice thai style most of my life. Their menu is limited but honestly it helps when you're not the best at narrowing down your options. I decided to get the fried chicken plate along with the free herbal chicken soup for checking in #protip. I have to say I enjoyed every bite from the soothing soup to the garlicky rice to the moist tender chicken to the flavorful sauces! They have amazing variety in their sauces but my favorite was definitely the classic thai hainese sauce. There wasn't anything that I didn't enjoy about the dish. It was definitely one of the best hainese chicken dishes I have had and is on par with my mom's own hainese chicken.

! Service ! The service was super fast and prompt, and we were quickly greeted immediately as soon as we walked through the door. The person who took our order was especially nice, since he accomadated my order of extra garlic in my rice and additional sauces.

!Price Point! Initially I thought the price was a bit on the expensive side for $13, but was I wrong! The portions were big enough for at least 2 people with heaps of chicken. The only downside was the rice to chicken ratio since there was sooo much chicken.

!Ambiance! A great place to grab a quick sit down bite. It's set up where you order and pick up your food, similar to that of a food court.

!TLDR! Definitely an amazing place to come grab delicious thai style hainese chicken. The service was great, the food was amazing, what more can...

Thai-style Hainan Chicken in the South Bay. I was skeptical at first so I ordered delivery the first time around. It was pretty good so I later made a dine-in visit. Was slightly better. The difference was negligible so I may do more delivery orders in the future. But the reduction of a star comes from couple of factors. First, for half a star, the sauce for the fried chicken is way too sweet. I understand they advertise it as "sweet and tangy", but this was too much and was hard for me to find a good balance. Use too much and it's like I'm drinking sugar, use too little and all I'm tasting is the fried breading. I think it could be way improved if the sweetness was toned down a great deal so I can enjoy both the taste of the sauce and the breading. I've tried it in a different experience with the 'other' sauce meant for the normal non-fried chicken. It wasn't as sweet but still very tangy. The other half star was reduced because while they do give a VERY generous portion of chicken, there just wasn't enough rice to accompany and balance out the flavor. I didn't bother asking for more rice, because most places have an extra charge. I should ask next time just to confirm, but I'll cross that bridge when I...

First time customer & Got several orders of half steam & half fried chicken. But my boxes of food looked nothing like the posted photos. Rice was not standalone in one corner, but spread over the cabbage. And both types of chicken was just dumped over the rice all mixed together. Fried chicken ended up soggy since wasn’t placed separately. Messy placement also ruined the taste of the flavored rice for me since everything was jumbled together. Unfortunately we only found out after opening the boxes at home.

For healthy white meat eaters out there, Beware that all the chicken is dark meat (thighs), which is cheaper than chicken breast meat. Would be good to have an option for white meat.

This is not traditional Hainan Chicken Rice, which is cooked with whole chickens including the bones, in order to extract all the nutrients into the broth, & broth is then used to cook the rice. This place uses boneless dark meat chicken pieces, so consider it a dumb-downed fast food version of Hainan...