Khanom kha kai,
literally ‘chicken leg candy’, is
a Thai kind of snack that consists of rather hard, orangey coloured, elongated
cookies, that are made with bread flour and powdered cream cheese, fried in oil,
and have a spicy to salty taste.
The name is also used
for breadsticks and to
distinguish the one from
the other, one can
either refer to the
candy's distinctive
colour, i.e. orange and
in Thai
sih
som,
or append the term
khanom
pihb,
which alludes to the tin
canister called
pihb,
that is traditionally
used to store candy in
bulk.