叫化鸡 (jiàohuājī) · Beggar's Chicken

Meanings

1 Beggar's Chicken

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About the dish

苏菜 Jiangsu · 热菜 Hot dish

A whole chicken, often stuffed with pork and mushrooms, wrapped in lotus leaves and sealed in clay or dough, then baked for hours. The shell is cracked open to serve; the meat falls off the bone and smells of the leaves.

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Examples

HSK 2

楼外楼的叫化鸡是杭州名菜。

Lóuwàilóu de jiàohuājī shì Hángzhōu míngcài.

Louwailou's Beggar's Chicken is a Hangzhou signature dish.

HSK 7-9

服务员用小锤把叫化鸡的泥壳敲开。

Fúwùyuán yòng xiǎo chuí bǎ jiàohuājī de ní ké qiāo kāi.

The waiter cracked open the clay shell of the Beggar's Chicken with a small mallet.

Tips

culture

Legend: a beggar in Changshu stole a chicken, had no pot, so coated it in mud and threw it in a fire. The clay sealed in juices; the lotus leaves perfumed the meat. 金庸 immortalized the dish in 《射雕英雄传》 where 黄蓉 cooks one for 洪七公.