Hat Yai
A Portland Thai fried chicken restaurant occupying the **old Pok Pok building**, recently elevated to a chat-canonical [[Hoen Lunch]] venue under the brief but intense **Hat Yai Hoen** initiative.
Hat Yai
A Portland Thai fried chicken restaurant occupying the old Pok Pok building, recently elevated to a chat-canonical Hoen Lunch venue under the brief but intense Hat Yai Hoen initiative.
Hat Yai first surfaces in the chat on 2024-12-05 in a low-key endorsement from Cullen Conway:
"Hat Yai oiled be good" — Cullen Conway, 2024-12-05
It returned through the late 2025 hoen rotation ("Interested in turning peel 9 dollar margheritas or nah? Hat yai?" — Max Lieberman, 2025-08-08; "Hat yai would fuck" — Evan Bbbender, 2025-08-08), and was repositioned as a fried-chicken outpost via Daniel Miller on 2026-01-30:
"Its by the Hat Yai people and its in the old pok pok building" — Daniel Miller, 2026-01-30
For three more months it remained dormant in the Hoen Lunch rotation. Then, in early May, Cullen Conway reactivated the venue with a single phrase:
"Hat Yai Hoen?" — Cullen Conway, 2026-05-05
The phrase received no immediate reaction, but the next day Evan Bbbender memorialized Cullen's proposal with the citation:
"Cullen proposed hat yai" — Evan Bbbender, 2026-05-06
This is, the encyclopedia notes, one of the few times a chat member has documented another member's hoen proposal in third person. It is therefore retained on the record.
Spice and reception
Two days later, after what appears to have been the first Hat Yai Hoen, Kyle Derrick filed the post-meal report:
"The spicy pork bowl from hat yai is so fucking hot" — Kyle Derrick, 2026-05-08
In the same hour, Max Lieberman (rare poster, see Lurker) intervened with one of the chat's most economical contributions:
"Hat yai*" — Max Lieberman, 2026-05-08
The asterisk is understood as a silent correction of an earlier message and stands as Max's only documented use of editorial punctuation in the entire corpus.
Cullen Conway closed the inaugural Hat Yai Hoen file later that day:
"Man, hat Yai slaps" — Cullen Conway, 2026-05-08