You must have tried the delicious Chicken 65 if you’re a non-vegetarian. The spiciness is packed with irresistible flavours that tingle your taste buds. The uniqueness of this ionic fried chicken dish from the South has bagged the No. 3 spot in the 10 Best Fried Chicken Dishes in the World, released by Taste Atlas.
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Taste Atlas, the popular food and travel guide, has curated a list of the ‘Best Fried Chicken Dishes’ worldwide.
On its website, Taste Atlas describes this dish as a “deep-fried chicken marinated in ginger, lemon, red chiles, and a variety of other spices.”
It also explains several theories about its invention, clarifying that the most “popular” one traces Chicken 65’s origin to Tamil Nadu in the 1960s. This is not the first time this Indian dish has received recognition on a global scale. When Taste Atlas released the list on the same theme last year (in August 2023), it ranked Chicken 65 tenth overall.
Though Chicken 65 has climbed the ladder, it failed to beat Korean Fried Chicken (Chikin), which has topped the list, followed by Karaage from Japan.
Ayam Goreng, which had topped the previous edition of the list, now occupies fifth place. Other Asian delicacies among the top 10 are Chinese Crispy fried chicken (Zhaziji), Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken, and Indonesian Ayam Penyet.
