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No. 12 in the world · November 2026
Hot-Star Large Fried Chicken
No. 12The one piece to order
The giant crisp cutlet, with salt, pepper and chilli powder
The plate-sized chicken cutlet that began at Shilin Night Market and went around the world. Still the classic order at the market.
Make it at home
Taiwanese salt-and-pepper popcorn chicken with fried basil
1 hr marinate, 25 min · 4. The night-market fried chicken (yan su ji): five-spice marinated thigh in a coarse sweet-potato-starch crust that fries up spiky, tossed with fried basil and a peppery salt. Cut a whole thigh flat instead and you have the giant Hot-Star cutlet.
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