Samsui chicken
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Cantonese:
三水
jyutping:
saam1 seoi2
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English:
chicken
Detailed etymology
definitions
noun
- a dish of steamed chicken marinated in soya sauce, sesame oil, and generous amounts of ginger, and served with a ginger-based dip. Similar in flavour profile to the Hainanese steamed chicken used in chicken rice.
Apparently, the samsui chicken is real in that the chicken is prepared and cooked in the samsui way (i.e., ginger etc). But when I asked if it was true that samsui women only ate samsui chicken once a year like during Chinese New Year, Hoi Yin said no, not even once a year.
— 2015, Kelvin E. Y. Low. Remembering the Samsui Women Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China. NUS Press. ISBN: 9789971698584. p.73
usage notes
Sometimes also known as 'Samsui ginger chicken', after the main flavouring ingredient of the dish.