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Crispy fried chicken
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Course Main dishes
Place of origin China
Region or state Hong Kong, Guangdong
Main ingredients Chicken
Crispy fried chicken
Traditional Chinese 炸子雞
Simplified Chinese 炸子鸡
Hanyu Pinyin zhàzǐjī
Jyutping zaa3zi2gai1
Literal meaning fried chicken
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin zhàzǐjī
Bopomofo ㄓㄚˋ ㄗˇ ㄐㄧ
IPA [ʈʂâ tsɹ̩̀ tɕí]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization jajígāi
IPA [tsāːtsǐːkɐ́i]
Jyutping zaa3zi2gai1
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ tsà-tsí-ke

Crispy fried chicken (simplified Chinese: 炸子鸡; traditional Chinese: 炸子雞) is a standard dish in the Cantonese cuisine of southern China and Hong Kong. The chicken is fried in such a way that the skin is extremely crunchy, but the white meat is relatively soft. This is done by first poaching the chicken in water with spices (e.g. star anise, cinnamon, nutmeg, Sichuan pepper, ginger, fennel, and scallions), drying it, coating with a syrup of vinegar and sugar, letting it dry thoroughly (which helps make the skin crispy) and deep-frying.

The dish is often served with two side dishes, a pepper salt (椒鹽) and prawn crackers (蝦片). The pepper salt, colored dark white to gray, is dry-fried separately in a wok. It is made of salt and Sichuan pepper.

Traditionally this dish is eaten at night. It is also one of the traditional chicken dishes served at Chinese weddings and other Asian weddings.

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