How to say “Soy sauce chicken” in Cantonese
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si6 jau4 gai1 · Soy sauce chicken
Whole chicken poached in a sweetened soy sauce mix until glossy brown. Sold in roast meat shops beside char siu.
The colour of each syllable is its tone — Cantonese has six, and the same sound in another tone is another word.