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Soy Sauce Chicken
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Soya Sauce Chicken (52572435460)
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GD 廣東 Guangdong 廣州 Guangzhou 悅匯城 Yue City Shopping Mall shop 廣州陶陶居 To To Kui Restaurant 美食 cuisine food 脆皮燒雞 Roast Chicken June 2025 R12S 03
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豉油鸡

豉油雞
chǐyóujī
noun Not spicy

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 soy sauce chicken

About the dish

粤菜 Cantonese · 热菜 Hot dish

A whole chicken simmered in soy sauce sweetened with rock sugar until the skin is glossy brown, then chopped into pieces on the bone and served warm or at room temperature. Savoury and a little sweet. A Cantonese dish.

Examples

HSK 6
Chǐyóujī de pí shì shēn zōngsè de, wèidao yǒudiǎn tián.
Soy sauce chicken has dark brown skin and tastes slightly sweet.
HSK 6
Zài Guǎngzhōu, hěnduō rén mǎi bàn zhī chǐyóujī dàng wǎnfàn.
In Guangzhou, many people buy half a soy sauce chicken for dinner.

Tips

usage
豉油 is the Cantonese word for soy sauce, which is 酱油 in standard Mandarin.

Stroke Order

豉 chǐ
油 yóu
鸡 jī