蚵仔煎 (ézǐjiān) · oyster omelette

Meanings

1 oyster omelette

Made with

About the dish

Small oysters fried with egg and leafy greens in a sweet potato starch batter that sets chewy and a little sticky, with a sauce, often sweet and reddish, on top or on the side. A Taiwanese and southern Fujian snack.

Usually contains shellfish and egg

Characters

蚵

é

oyster (Hokkien/Taiwanese)

仔

zǐ

small-thing suffix (Hokkien -á)

煎

jiān

to pan-fry

Examples

HSK 6

士林夜市的蚵仔煎很出名。

Shì lín yèshì de ézǐjiān hěn chūmíng.

Shilin Night Market's oyster omelette is very famous.

HSK 7-9

这盘蚵仔煎的蚵仔又大又新鲜。

Zhè pán ézǐjiān de é zǐ yòu dà yòu xīnxiān.

The oysters in this oyster omelette are big and fresh.

Tips

culture

蚵仔煎 is a classic Taiwanese night-market dish: oysters, egg, and leafy greens bound with sweet potato starch and pan-fried, then topped with a sweet-savory pink sauce. In Taiwanese Hokkien it is pronounced 'ô-á-tsian'; the Mandarin reading ézǐjiān is used on the mainland and in formal contexts.