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干煸田鸡

乾煸田雞
gānbiān tiánjī
noun Hot

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 dry-fried frog

About the dish

川菜 Sichuan · 热菜 Hot dish

Pieces of frog leg, small bones and all, fried until crisp at the edges, then stir-fried with dried chili, Sichuan pepper and ginger. Hot and numbing; crisp outside and tender inside.

Examples

HSK 3
Dìyī cì chī gānbiān tiánjī de shíhou, wǒ hái yǐwéi shì jīròu.
The first time I had dry-fried frog, I thought it was chicken.
HSK 6
Gānbiān tiánjī yào bǎ tiánjī zhá dào hěn gān, zài hé gān làjiāo yìqǐ chǎo.
For dry-fried frog, the frog is fried until quite dry and then stir-fried with dried chilies.

Tips

usage
田鸡, literally "field chicken", is the frog. The dish has no chicken in it.

Stroke Order

干 gān
煸 biān
田 tián
鸡 jī