Gade bought a pack of frozen chicken feet from the Chinese Supermarket, she tell's me there is a way to remove the bones by soaking them in something but cannot tell me what, as she does not know, anyone know? Thanks for any info.

oldoldgit my ex wife used to buy the chicken feet frozen and after removing the bone made a spicy salad.i am not sure of the procedure but tomorrow she will bring Jack our son back home to me and i will ask for you.

Tell her to pop them in the microwave for an hour or so. That should do the trick and render them unfit for consumption by even the most devoted Thai.

Someone, please explain the attraction of chicken feet. So much hassle for a few scraps of fatty, gristly meat? OK, they are scarce, only 2 per chicken, but the rest of the bird is hardly the most expensive of food, is it? Does anyone here actually think that feet meat tastes better than a nice bit of moist breast (and DON'T take that off-topic!)?

My missus boils the feet to remove bones then adds to salad, however my son likes her to leave the bones in. he wanted to take some to school in his lunch box
I have tried them on a few occassions but find then rather lacklustre and quite chewy. My son fights the missus for who gets to eat the fish head (inc eyes); he also loves chicken gizzards, duck tougue, frogs. Now my daughter Lily (aged 18 months)is eating fish eyes.
Mook is now eyeing up wildlife in the garden for the pot, no kidding!!

i don't mind my wife eating chicken feet but if i know that she has done i make her brush her teeth before she can even think about kissing me.

I think they are disgusting, when you think what they trod in for most of the day when alive, thanks Micheal001 I am sure my Wife will appreciate the know how from your ex.

My wife's know all Thai friend says they should be soaked in something before cooking and the bones can be pulled out, but she knows not what.

oldoldgit

Do you eat eggs?

Argos have foot spas for chicken feet

oldoldgit

I am not sure if your wife meant to Caustic Soda or "Soda Fai" in Thai?

Jarucha

Yes Lucky, but not the shells. Fish, Have only seen the eighteen inch ones in Argos.

My wife posted this in the Thai Language section - I assume they're chicken feet?!

Another menu option perhaps?

Enjoy.

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My wife posted this in the Thai Language section - I assume they're chicken feet?!

Another menu option perhaps?

Enjoy.

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Looks like ET drowning to me?

Jarucha, Wife says a chemical is used, so sounds right, do you know how it is done?

From Thai recipes
Chicken Feet & Spicy Noodles ( Kao Noom Jean Nam Ya Tin Gay )

Ingredients
500 gms Rice Noodle
400 gms Chicken Feet
500 gms Soft Meat Flat Fish
20 gms Dried Red Chillies
20 gms Red Onion
20 gms Garlic
20 gms Kasay
20 gms Lemon Grass
10 Kaffir Leaves
50 gms Chopped Spring Onion
3 Tablespoons Old Fish Sauce
1 Tablespoon Salt
3 Tablespoons Fish Sauce
1/2 Teaspoon Sugar
2 Litres Water

Preparation
1. Boil the water, add the old fish sauce, fish sauce, salt, sugar, dried chillies, red onion, garlic, lemon grass, kasay and kaffir leaves and continue to boil.
2. Clean the chicken feet carefully, clean the fish too, remembering to gut it. Add to the boiling pan and simmer for 1 hour.
3. Remove the chicken feet and fish from the pan and set aside.
4. Strain the liquid from the pot into another pan. Take the chillies, kaffirs leaves etc. you strained out into a Thai mortar and pound them to a pulp.
5. Add the pulped seasonings back into the strained sauce-pan.
6. Remove the meat from the cooked fish, pound that too and add that to the sauce pan. Be careful to remove all the fish bones.
7. Finally put the chicken feet back into the pan and cook for a further 20 minutes.
8. In a separate pan of boiling water, cook the noodles for 3 minutes, rinse with cold water.
9. Serve some of the noodles, together with some chicken feet and sauce.

Serve With
Raw Green Beans
Green Aubergine
Cucumber
Mint
Coriander Leaves
Lettuce
Raw Green Cabbage


ash

Thank Ash, noticed 'Old fish sauce' (smelly fish)in the recipe, that's when I leave the house and work in the garden to avoid the smell.

Boil chicken feet in 'soda fai' or 'baking soda' which is sodium bicarbonate.

oldoldgit

As baitoong said

Jarucha

Thanks Baitoong & Jarucha, Will tell Gade to use Bicarbonate of Soda.

Baking soda is not Soda-Fai.
Soda-Fai is Sodium hydroxide (NaOH), also known as lye or caustic soda and you want to eat?

http://thai-language.com/id/137902

Pookiesal,
Did a Google on Caustic soda after being told to use it, I was very wary as I have used it to strip paint, and Google said it was dangerous stuff, Thanks all the same.

hi my ex wife says she would boil the chicken feet in water adding a litle salt or if she had baking soda that's better as (baitoong) posted

Pookiesal is right about Soda Fai. It is dangerous and should not be eaten in any form. However, some people in Thailand who probably isn't aware of its danger actually use it with chicken feet.

I think Soda Fai is what oldoldgit's wife talked about. But since you know how dangerous it could be, you might want to tell your wife to just boil that yummy chicken feet in water and salt. I have never done it myself as I am not patient enough to take the bones out. I prefer eating it with bones. It's more fun!

Pim says she used to cook with Soda Fai when she had a noodle stall. "Makes the pork very tender. Customers love it."
Looking at the Chicken Feet above was interesting. Confirms they do use caustic soda. The boy working over the basket gets about 20 baht a basket for the product. i wonder what his gums are like now?
Apparently Pim hasn't been able to buy it here. Yet.

I was thinking that instead of using caustic soda you could use lemon scented toilet bleach and save some money not having to add lemon grass.

I have eaten chicken feet and thought OK, though not meal of choice, didn't realise quite how much effort went into the preparation though.

no i cant see the attraction either BUT the wife and her mates love em .
i can normally always tell when she has been cooking them as well as the smell when i enter the house is unmistakeable and so is the smell on her breath.
still its better than not tonight i have a headache