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Salt and pepper chicken is a signature dish of Taiwan; we have verified places to eat it in 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. Start with where to eat Salt and pepper chicken in 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.
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