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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