Salt Pepper Chicken appears as a signature dish in 1 Taiwan cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Salt and pepper chicken · Taipei
Yan su ji is the night-market deep-fried chicken snack: marinated boneless chicken pieces fried with basil leaves, dusted with house pepper and chilli salt.
Salt and pepper chicken is a Taipei night-market staple, the boneless cousin to Hot Star's larger fried-chicken cutlet. The dish came from 1980s Taipei street culture as cheap fried protein dusted with five-spice salt. Almost every night market in Taipei has multiple yan su ji counters; the Bib Gourmand-listed ones rotate through Tonghua and Shilin night markets.
Where to eat in Taipei:
- Shilin Night Market
- Tonghua Linjiang Night Market