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Lemon Chicken on Woosung Street
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Fred Cherrygarden
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CC BY-SA 4.0
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Lemon Chicken in Hong Kong
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Christian Schmitt
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CC BY 2.0
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Tenglong Chinese Restaurant Lemon Chicken (37577556406)
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Willis Lam
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西柠鸡

西檸雞
xīníngjī
Also on menus as 柠檬鸡
noun Not spicy

Measure Word

一份西柠鸡 fèn

Meanings

  1. 1 lemon chicken

About the dish

粤菜 Cantonese · 热菜 Hot dish

Boneless pieces of chicken in a crisp batter, deep-fried and covered in a sweet and sour lemon sauce. Common in Cantonese restaurants in Guangdong and Hong Kong.

Usually contains wheat

Examples

HSK 5
这家茶餐厅的西柠鸡配米饭，三十八块一份。
Zhè jiā chácāntīng de xīníngjī pèi mǐfàn, sānshíbā kuài yí fèn.
At this Hong Kong-style diner, lemon chicken with rice is thirty-eight yuan a serving.
HSK 7-9
西柠鸡外面很脆，上面浇着酸酸甜甜的柠檬汁。
Xīníngjī wàimian hěn cuì, shàngmian jiāo zhe suānsuāntiántián de níngméngzhī.
Lemon chicken is crisp on the outside, with a sweet and sour lemon sauce poured over it.

Tips

usage
西柠, "Western lemon", is a Cantonese menu word for lemon, so the same dish is also written 柠檬鸡.

Stroke Order

西 xī
柠 níng
鸡 jī