"Hainan" Coconut Chicken Hotpot

How to make the "tropical" Chinese sensation that's... not actually from Hainan.

Click to Jump to the Recipe In tourism brochures and advertising campaigns, the southern island of Hainan is sometimes touted as “the Hawaii of China”. I’ve always had a slight allergy to these kinds of monikers. Whether it’s ‘The Silicon Valley of China’ (Shenzhen) or ‘The Hamburger of China’ (Roujiamo) – “[insert foreign thing] of China” is practically always based off of a cartoonish simplification of both the Chinese thing and the foreign thing. Shenzhen is not silicon valley – the only thing they share is a preponderance of tech bros and a smattering of their financing. A roujiamo is…

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