Three Cup Chicken appears as a signature dish in 1 Taiwan cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Three-cup chicken · Taipei
San bei ji is the iconic Hakka-Taiwanese braise: chicken pieces stir-fried with equal cups of rice wine, soy sauce and sesame oil, finished with handfuls of Thai basil.
Three-cup chicken is a Hakka dish brought to Taiwan by 17th-century settlers from Jiangxi province. The three cups (sometimes 'one cup' each of rice wine, soy sauce and sesame oil) give it its name and the explosive aroma. Shin Yeh, opened 1977 in Taipei, popularised the dish on Taipei tourist menus. The finishing handful of nine-layer Taiwan basil (jiu ceng ta) is what distinguishes it from mainland Chinese braises.
Where to eat in Taipei:
- Shin Yeh Shuanglian
- Mountain and Sea House