Soy sauce chicken is a traditional
Cantonese cuisine
Cantonese or Guangdong cuisine, also known as Yue cuisine ( zh, t=廣東菜 or zh, labels=no, t=粵菜), is the cuisine of Cantonese people, associated with the Guangdong, Guangdong province of China, particularly the provincial capital Guan ...
dish made of chicken cooked with
soy sauce
Soy sauce (sometimes called soya sauce in British English) is a liquid condiment of China, Chinese origin, traditionally made from a fermentation (food), fermented paste of soybeans, roasted cereal, grain, brine, and ''Aspergillus oryzae'' or ''A ...
. It is considered a ''
siu mei
''Siu mei'' () is the generic Cantonese name of meats roasted on spits over an open fire or a large wood-burning rotisserie oven. It creates a unique, deep barbecue flavor and the roast is usually coated with a flavorful sauce (a different sauc ...
'' dish in
Hong Kong
Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...
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Another Cantonese dish,
white cut chicken
White cut chicken or white sliced chicken () is a type of '' siu mei''. Unlike most other meats in the ''siu mei'' category, this particular dish is not roasted, but poached. The dish is common to the cultures of Southern China, including Gu ...
, often served with a salty ginger-onion paste, is more savoured for the taste of the meat, where the freshness of the chicken is noticeable.
Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...
's
Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice and Noodle, formerly the cheapest
Michelin-starred restaurant in the world (having lost its star in 2021), specializes in this dish and offers it for the equivalent of US$2.
See also
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Ayam kecap
Ayam kecap () or ayam masak kicap () is an Indonesian Javanese chicken dish poached or simmered in sweet soy sauce (''kecap manis'') commonly found in Indonesia and Malaysia.
History and origin
Fried chicken in sweet soy sauce is a typical ...
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Crispy fried chicken
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Swiss wing
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Teriyaki
''Teriyaki'' is a cooking technique in which foods are grilling#Overhead grilling, broiled or Grilling, grilled with a Glaze (cooking technique), glaze of soy sauce, mirin, and sugar. Although commonly associated with Japanese cuisine,
Fish ...
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List of chicken dishes
This is a list of chicken dishes. Chicken
The chicken (''Gallus gallus domesticus'') is a domesticated subspecies of the red junglefowl (''Gallus gallus''), originally native to Southeast Asia. It was first domesticated around 8,000 year ...
References
External links
Soy sauce chicken page(Chinese)
Cantonese cuisine
Chinese chicken dishes
Hong Kong cuisine
Soy-based foods
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