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Spicy and sour chicken feet
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Fumikas Sagisavas
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Spicy and sour chicken feet (20240909)
By
Fumikas Sagisavas
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Wikimedia Commons
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Cropped and resized

酸辣鸡爪

酸辣雞爪
suānlà jīzhuǎ
Also on menus as 酸辣凤爪
noun Hot

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 hot and sour chicken feet

About the dish

川菜 Sichuan · 凉菜 Cold dish

Chicken feet boiled, chilled and soaked in a dressing of vinegar, chili, garlic and coriander, served cold. Sour and hot, with chewy skin and tendon around small bones to spit out.

Examples

HSK 5
Suānlà jīzhuǎ shì yí dào liángcài, yòu suān yòu là, hěn kāiwèi.
Hot and sour chicken feet are a cold dish, sour and spicy, and they really whet the appetite.
HSK 7-9
Wǎnshang kàn qiú de shíhou, wǒmen jiào le yí fèn suānlà jīzhuǎ dàng yèxiāo.
Watching the match late at night, we ordered hot and sour chicken feet as a snack.

Tips

culture
Chicken feet are eaten for their chewy, springy skin and tendons: you nibble them off the small bones and spit the bones out.

Stroke Order

酸 suān
辣 là
鸡 jī
爪 zhǎo