Chicken on Wrappers

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Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cheong Liew: Inside My Food

By David Sly and Cheong Liew

Published 2025

  • About

Based on a Southern Cantonese dish, this irresistible chicken snack is a favourite at fairgrounds and festivals.

Method

Cheong started helping his mother prepare this dish when he was about 10 years old, in readiness for his family’s Sunrise Poultry stall at the annual Malaysia Agricultural Exhibition at the Showground in Kuala Lumpur.

I can remember that Mum used Seppelt’s sherry instead of rice wine, and Worcestershire sauce to marinate this dark chicken overnight – so maybe this is th