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麻辣鸡

麻辣雞
málàjī
noun Hot

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 mala chicken

About the dish

川菜 Sichuan · 热菜 Hot dish

Chopped chicken on the bone cooked with plenty of dried chili and Sichuan pepper or dressed in chili oil, so it is hot and numbing at once. Oily and salty, with small bones in most pieces.

Examples

HSK 6
Wǒ bú tài néng chī là, suǒyǐ diǎn málàjī de shíhou ràng chúshī shǎo fàng làjiāo.
I can't take much spice, so when I ordered the mala chicken I asked the cook to go easy on the chilies.
HSK 7-9
Málàjī lǐ fàng le hěnduō gān làjiāo hé huājiāo.
Mala chicken has lots of dried chilies and Sichuan peppercorns in it.

Stroke Order

麻 má
辣 là
鸡 jī