Meat

Chicken Wings

A chicken wing made of the drumette, flat and wing tip joined by two joints.

繁體中文: 雞翼
English: Chicken Wings
Bahasa Indonesia: Sayap ayam (雞翼)
Tagalog: Pakpak ng manok (雞翼)

What is it?

Chicken wings may be sold whole or separated into drumettes, flats and tips; follow the specified section.

How to identify it

A whole wing is narrow and bent with three sections and two joints; a thick single-bone drumstick is not a wing.

Drumette, flat and tip
Two bending joints
Narrow bent outline

Common confusion

Chicken wings have three small wing sections and two joints; chicken legs are thicker with two main leg segments.

Common Hong Kong household uses

Confirm the dish, quantity and cut with the employer before preparation, then cook thoroughly.

Preparation or handling

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 wings, flats or drumettes; do not buy generic chicken pieces.

What Ma’am or Sir may say

買一磅全雞翼，唔好淨係中翼。

The employer wants whole three-section wings, not flats only.

Useful market phrase

唔該要一磅全雞翼。

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Last reviewed

2026-08-24