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Raymond’s hot take on Hainanese chicken

Raymond Chen offers a brief, subtle opinion on Hainanese chicken in this blog post on The Old New Thing.

Background

Raymond Chen is a Microsoft developer who has been writing "The Old New Thing" blog since 2003, mostly about Windows internals, programming puzzles, and software folklore. This post is a satirical play on the format: it looks like a typical technical blog entry but instead delivers a very short "hot take" on Hainanese chicken (a poached chicken dish from Hainan, China, popular in Southeast Asian cuisine). The joke is that the entire content is just the word "Subtlety" — a deadpan pun on both the dish's delicate flavor and the cliché of tech bloggers writing clickbait hot takes.