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23 Chinese chicken recipes you know and love

Kung pao, bang bang and white-cut. These are the chicken recipes you know and love.
Stir-fried chicken with Sichuan pepper and chilli

Stir-fried chicken with Sichuan pepper and chilli

Fast or slow, spicy or soupy, these Chinese chicken recipes are set to liven up the dinner table. We’re fans of “strange flavour” chicken, also known as bang bang chicken; or the soy and chilli-laced goodness of kung pao chicken. For a fast and easy option, just stir-fry chicken with Sichuan peppers or Chinese mushrooms, but if time is on your side, slow-poach your chook: just see Tony Tan’s recipe for Hainanese chicken rice, or Sunda’s masterstock chicken with ginger and spring onion relish. And don’t forget Kylie Kwong’s recipe for deep-fried chicken with finger-lime sauce. Unmissable.

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Roy Choi’s easy-peasy Chinese chicken wings

Photo: William Meppem

Kung pao chicken

Photo: Ben Hansen

Hakka salt-baked chicken

Photo: Chris Chen

Swiss chicken wings

Photo: Chris Chen

Tony Tan’s Cantonese fried rice with chicken, salted fish and bean sprouts

Chicken noodle soup
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Chinese-style chicken noodle soup

Photo: William Meppem

Sichuan chicken noodle salad

Steam pot chicken (Qi guo ji)
Photo: Chris Chen

Steam pot chicken (Qi guo ji)

Stir-fried chicken with Sichuan pepper and chilli
Photo: Chris Court

Stir-fried chicken with Sichuan pepper and chilli

Photo: Sharyn Cairns

Victor Liong’s white-cut chicken, aromatic chilli oil and peanuts

Chicken and egg noodle soup with ginger and chilli
Photo: William Meppem

Chicken and egg noodle soup with ginger and chilli

Sunda's masterstock-poached chicken with ginger and spring onion relish
Photo: Kristoffer Paulsen

Masterstock-poached chicken with ginger and spring onion relish

Photo: Mark Roper

Dainty Sichuan’s bang bang chicken (bang bang ji)

Kung Pao chicken
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Mr Wong’s Kung Pao chicken

Photo: John Paul Urizar

Drunken chicken with Shandong ramen noodles

Hainanese chicken rice
Photo: Rob Shaw

How to make Hainanese chicken rice

Masterstock chicken
Photo: William Meppem

Masterstock chicken

Chicken and ginger hotpot
Photo: William Meppem

Chicken and ginger hotpot

Stir-fried chicken and Chinese mushrooms
Photo: Jason Loucas

Stir-fried chicken and Chinese mushrooms

Bang bang chicken
Photo: Greg Elms

Bang bang chicken

Chinese chicken with soupy rice, ginger and spring onion dressing
Photo: William Meppem

Chinese white cut chicken with soupy rice, ginger and spring onion dressing

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Chinese-style roast chicken

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Kylie Kwong’s deep-fried chicken with finger-lime sauce

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