
Swiss wing () is a kind of sweet
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 ...
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chicken wings served in some
restaurants in Hong Kong
This is a list of notable restaurants in Hong Kong.
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. It is marinated in sauce made up of soy sauce,
sugar
Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. Simple sugars, also called monosaccharides, include glucose
Glucose is a sugar with the Chemical formula#Molecular formula, molecul ...
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Chinese wine, and
spice
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s. Despite the name "Swiss", it is unrelated to
Switzerland
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. Instead, it is believed to have originated in either
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 ...
or
Guangzhou
Guangzhou, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guangdong Provinces of China, province in South China, southern China. Located on the Pearl River about nor ...
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Naming
There are no concrete answers as to the source or the name of the dish. One story — likely to be a mere
urban legend
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These legends can be e ...
— goes that a Westerner came across the dish "sweetened soya sauce chicken wings" in a restaurant, and asked a Chinese waiter what that was. The waiter, who did not speak perfect English, introduced the dish as "sweet wing". The customer misheard "sweet" as "Swiss", and the name "Swiss wing" has been used ever since.
Origin
The story goes that a foreigner had dinner in Guangzhou
Tai Ping Koon Restaurant (太平館). He was amazed by the sweet chicken wings served to him and asked the waiter for the name of the dish. The waiter mispronounced “Sweet” as “Swiss”. The restaurant decided to leave the mistake uncorrected and made the best of it by changing the name of the dish to "Swiss Chicken Wings".
See also
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Buffalo wing
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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 ...
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Soy sauce chicken
Soy sauce chicken is a traditional Cantonese cuisine dish made of chicken cooked with soy sauce. It is considered a ''siu mei'' dish in Hong Kong.
Another Cantonese dish, white cut chicken, often served with a salty ginger-onion paste, is mo ...
References
External links
History of Tai Ping Koon Restaurantfrom their website.
Swiss Sauce Chicken Wings (Dark Soy Sauce Chicken Wings)Hong Kong style Swiss sauce chicken wings 瑞士雞翼(Cantonese) at YouTube
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