What is chongqing chicken?
Chongqing chicken
Sichuan fried chicken bites buried in a heap of dried red chilies and Sichuan peppercorns; la zi ji in Chinese.
What it tastes like
Crispy, salty, spicy and numbing. The chilies are mostly there for aroma; you dig through them for the chicken.
Where you’ll see it
Sichuan restaurants, sometimes listed as chicken with dried chilies or chili chicken.