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Chicken Breast
- Broad and thick, tapering at one end
- Pale-pink solid lean muscle
- Boneless fillet has no leg joint
Meat
Chicken Breast
The broad lean breast muscle of a chicken, sold bone-in or as skinless boneless fillets.
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3 identity clues
- Broad and thick, tapering at one end
- Pale-pink solid lean muscle
- Boneless fillet has no leg joint
Names in other languages
- 繁體中文
- 雞胸
- English
- Chicken Breast
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Dada ayam (雞胸)
- Tagalog
- Pitso ng manok (雞胸)
Name in Cantonese (Jyutping): gai1 hung1 No Cantonese voice on this device
What is it?
Chicken breast is usually leaner and shaped differently from a leg; specify skin-on, skinless, bone-in or boneless.
How to identify it
A boneless breast is a broad thick pale-pink lobe tapering at one end, without a knee joint or long leg bone; bone-in pieces show breastbone.
Common confusion
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Chicken Leg
- Thigh and drumstick remain joined
- Visible knee joint
- Usually skin-on with unequal ends
- narrow boneless chicken strips
- may be whole tenders or cut breast strips
- requires a 雞柳 label or counter confirmation
How to identify it
Chicken breast is broad flat lean meat without a knee joint; a whole leg has thigh, drumstick and a clear joint. Retail chicken fillet or tender is a narrow trimmed strip; its exact anatomical source must be confirmed by the label, not shape alone.
Common Hong Kong household uses
Confirm the dish, quantity and cut with the employer before preparation, then cook thoroughly.
Choosing & preparing
Keep raw meat separate from cooked food, use separate boards and knives, wash hands and contact surfaces, and cook the centre to at least 75°C for 30 seconds.
Storage
Keep covered on the lowest refrigerator shelf at 4°C or below and thaw frozen meat only in the refrigerator or microwave. Contain a leaking package and clean contaminated surfaces; leakage alone is not used here as a spoilage test.
Helper tip
Confirm whole fillet, slices or cubes and whether it must be skinless and boneless.
What Ma’am or Sir may say
買兩件去皮去骨雞胸，切片。The employer wants two skinless boneless chicken breasts sliced.
Useful market phrase
唔該要兩件去皮去骨雞胸。Meaning: Two pieces of skinless, boneless chicken breast, please.
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Sources (6)
- Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department / Centre for Food Safety — FEHD CHICKEN
- Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department / Centre for Food Safety — FEHD CHICKEN JYUTPING
- Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department — Public Market Items Multilingual Booklet
- Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety — Prevention of Cross-contamination
- Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety — Store - Five Keys to Food Safety
- Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department / Centre for Food Safety — CFS COOK REHEAT