Poultry
Beggar's Chicken
叫花鸡
China
A whole chicken wrapped in lotus leaves and clay, baked slowly until the meat is fall-off-the-bone tender, a legendary Hangzhou dish.
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What it is
A closer look at Beggar's Chicken.
A whole chicken wrapped in lotus leaves and clay, baked slowly until the meat is fall-off-the-bone tender, a legendary Hangzhou dish.
What to look for
Know it when you find it.
A chicken encased in a hard clay shell that is cracked open at the table, revealing fragrant, tender meat steamed in its own juices inside lotus leaves.
Where it belongs
Origins and
traditions.
Food rarely respects a border. These are the places the dataset connects most strongly to Beggar's Chicken.
China
Country-wide tradition
Names around the table
One food, more than one name.
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