What is Kampong chicken?
Literally, kampong means village in Malay Language. In Singapore or Malaysia, Kampong Chicken refers to free-range or cage free chickens, which are allowed to run around in a kampong (village). But, nowadays, it’s not easy to find the Kampong chicken in Singapore because the government banned free range chicken raising after the 2006 bird flu. So, I am happy to have it once a while when I was in Malaysia.
I believe that kampong chicken is a happier and healthier bird. The birds are bred freely and doing more ‘exercise’. I have seen factory farming before, the birds are kept in tiny cages and have been forced fed to fatten them up, and even worse, injected growth hormone.
