Where did the name “Chicken 65” come from?

For those of you who don’t know, Chicken 65 is one of the most amazing Indian dishes ever. Deep-fried, red, spicy — just so good. The thing is, it’s not clear where the name “65” comes from.

I attempted to investigate this while I was in India. Check it out:

So yeah. I tried.


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Shy

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  1. jumana wrote:

    hahah amazing. amazing.

    Posted 1.11.10
  2. Saba wrote:

    HAHAHAHAAA this is my favorite post so far!

    Posted 1.11.10
  3. Hasan wrote:

    dude…thats the greatest video ive ever seen..its LEGENDDAAARY

    Posted 1.11.10
  4. narima wrote:

    i have several stories to this 1.someone tried it 65 times before they liked the taste. 2.there are 65 ingridients.3. very authentic one this happened in miltary canteen in south of india where people from all over india were stationed they could not read or pronounce the local language and this dish was number 65 0n menu it was easy to order this way honest truth—-

    Posted 1.11.10
  5. narima wrote:

    shy i forgot to mention i loveeeeeee the video it is awesome——–

    Posted 1.11.10
  6. Hana wrote:

    hahaha i love it

    Posted 1.11.10
  7. Ruwaida wrote:

    hahaha very nice shy I loved it 🙂

    Posted 1.11.10
  8. Summar wrote:

    love it. can you come up with some kind of mechanism that produces the dishes you blog/video about? get on it, k? i’m hungry.

    Posted 1.11.10
  9. Shahid wrote:

    Very well done Shy Shy I love it.

    Posted 1.11.10
  10. Zain wrote:

    HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA That’s easily THE best video I’ve seen in my life! And I just realized that our family isn’t very clever. Some of the reasons were just strange.

    Posted 1.11.10
  11. Maaria wrote:

    That was funny! Loved it.

    Posted 1.11.10
  12. rashaad wrote:

    that was great!

    Posted 1.11.10
  13. narima wrote:

    award goes tooooo Hasan.A for great performance, articulation and explation.yeahhhhh

    Posted 1.11.10
  14. Ayub wrote:

    looool amazing, this is too funny

    Posted 1.11.10
  15. sidrah wrote:

    OMGG definitely the bestest post ever!! lol i remember we always used to ask the same question too… but like you said, when its one of the most amazing dishes ever, who really cares.

    okay now i’m gonna watch the video again

    Posted 1.11.10
  16. Hajera Azam wrote:

    i love this. im gonna keep watching ittt!

    Posted 1.11.10
  17. Zayan wrote:

    hahaha this is amazing!!

    Posted 1.12.10
  18. fatima wrote:

    :))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

    hahahahhahahhahahah

    awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

    Posted 1.12.10
  19. Dania xD wrote:

    😀 😀 😀
    🙂
    HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHH!!!!!!!!
    AMAZING VID SHYYYY! 🙂

    Posted 1.12.10
  20. bobbi wrote:

    i agree with mumma

    Posted 1.12.10
  21. There are many folklore stories about this one. The first story is that the spices must soak for 65 days. The second story is about the Indian soldiers who needed something quick and easy during a war in 1965 and the unanimous choice of the soldiers was to have deep-fried boneless chicken pieces dipped in yogurt and spices – the chicken 65. The third story we know is about someone who used 65 dried red chilies to make the chicken hot. Whatever is the original story, the chicken 65 by any other name would taste as fiery and yummy.

    Posted 1.12.10
  22. Humza wrote:

    Zeeshan’s part was one of my favorites. he just straight up gets pissed off and walks away. Good answer!

    Posted 1.12.10
  23. Bilal Azam wrote:

    Hahah awesome video!!! love it!!

    there was a chicken store during the British rule and an Englishman could not pronounce the name of the chicken so he said “give me number 65 please” and thats the answer!!!

    Posted 1.13.10
  24. Salman wrote:

    Best bit- “Why is it called chicken 65” …. “I don’t know, why are you called Shyema”!!!!! That was hilarious.

    Posted 1.13.10
  25. aimen azam wrote:

    great performance…..

    Posted 1.14.10
  26. Ibby wrote:

    Haha! Everyone was hilarious. Nice editing going on there. Lmao at Aimen “This is a video or what?”

    Posted 1.14.10
  27. zara actually zahra wrote:

    nice shy <ha ha its funny

    Posted 1.15.10
  28. zara actually zahra wrote:

    lovvvv
    vv it
    hilaoorious maaaan
    ur goo d at it

    Posted 1.15.10
  29. Sabrina wrote:

    Mumma said I vas wrong.
    Awesome.

    Posted 1.15.10
  30. farheen Zaffer wrote:

    cant stop laughing no matter how many times i see it….

    Posted 1.16.10
  31. mahnaz wrote:

    very funny, enjoyed it.

    Posted 1.16.10
  32. Sarah wrote:

    hahaha this was awesome. sorry for the delayed commentary but this was an awesome birthday present! chicken 65 zindabad 🙂

    Posted 1.18.10
  33. Sabeen wrote:

    yay!! i finallly saw the video…seriously welll done. what did you use to edit? lol im such a nerd asking that question.

    Posted 1.20.10
  34. shyema wrote:

    haha, no you’re not, you are the coolest person ever and i’m just happy i’m your friend sigh…I just used my Mac’s iMovie program!

    Posted 1.20.10
  35. Aman wrote:

    The best video eva
    just 2 good
    PINGLE’S WAS THEE BEST

    Posted 3.4.10

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