Chicken feet

Chicken Feet

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Chicken feet

Chicken feet are a part of chicken

Chicken

The chicken is a Domestication fowl. Recent evidence suggests that domestication of the chicken was under way in Vietnam over 10,000 years ago....
that is eaten in Chinese

Chinese cuisine

Chinese cuisine originated from the various regions of China and has become widespread in many other parts of the world ? from Asia to the Americas, Australia, Western Europe and Southern Africa....
, Jamaican, South African and Philippine cuisine. The majority of the edible meat

Meat

In modern English usage, meat most often refers to animal biological tissue used as food, mostly skeletal muscle and associated fat, but it may also refer to offal, including livers, skin, brains, bone marrow, kidneys, in some countries lungs, and a variety of other internal organs as well as blood....
on the feet consist of skin

Skin

The skin is the outer covering of the body, also known as the epidermis. It is the largest organ of the integumentary system made up of multiple layers of epithelial biological tissue, and guards the underlying muscles, bones, ligaments and organ s....
and tendons, without much muscle

MUSCLE

MUSCLE is public domain, multiple sequence alignment software for protein and nucleotide sequences.MUSCLE is integrated into UGENE bioinformatics tool as a plugin....
. This gives the feet a distinct texture different from the rest of chicken's meat. There are many small bone

Bone

Bones are rigid organ that form part of the endoskeleton of vertebrates. They function to move, support, and protect the various organs of the body, produce red blood cell and white blood cells and store minerals....
s which may make it difficult to eat for some, and are often picked out before service. Being mostly cartilage

Cartilage

Cartilage is a type of dense connective tissue. It is composed of specialized cells called chondrocyte that produce a large amount of extracellular matrix composed of collagen fibers, abundant ground substance rich in proteoglycan, and elastin fibers....
, chicken feet are also very gelatin

Gelatin

Gelatin is a translucent, colorless, brittle, nearly tasteless solid, derived from the collagen inside animals' skin and mostly bones. It has been commonly used as a gelling agent in food, pharmaceutical, photography, and cosmetic manufacturing....
ous.

hinese cuisine, it is often an option at dim sum

Dim sum

Dim sum is the name for a Chinese cuisine which involves a wide range of light dishes served alongside Chinese tea. It is usually served in the mornings until noon time at Chinese restaurants and at specialty dim sum eateries where typical dishes are available throughout the day....
restaurants, served as "phoenix talons" .

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Chinese cuisine

In Chinese cuisine, it is often an option at dim sum

Dim sum

Deep frying

Deep frying is a cooking method in which food is submerged in hot oil or fat. This is normally performed with a deep fryer or chip pan; industrially, a pressure fryer or vacuum fryer may be used....
first in order to make them puffy before being stewed and simmered in a sauces flavoured with black fermented beans, bean paste and sugar. Sometimes duck feet are used in dim sum instead of chicken feet. Duck feet with mustard, which is often served with vinegar, fresh green pepper and crushed garlic, is a popular salad/appetizer.

South African cuisine

In South Africa, chicken feet are mainly eaten in Durban

Durban

Durban is the third most populous city in South Africa, forming part of the eThekwini metropolitan municipality . It is the largest city in KwaZulu-Natal and is famous as the busiest port in Africa....
and Soweto

Soweto

Soweto is an urban area in Regions of Johannesburg, in Gauteng, South Africa. Its name is an English language Abbreviation#Syllabic_abbreviation, short for South Western Township....
, where they are known as "walkie talkies" (together with the head) and "chicken dust" respectively. They are mostly prepared and eaten in the inner cities and townships. The feet are boiled to remove the hard skin and are then covered in seasonings and grilled. The name "chicken dust" derives from the dust that chickens create when scratching the ground with their feet.

Jamaican cuisine

In Jamaican cuisine, chicken feet are mainly used to make soup, known as chicken foot soup. The soup contains yams, potatoes, dumplings and special spices in addition to the chicken feet and is slow cooked for a minimum of 2 hours.

Philippine cuisine

In the Philippines, chicken feet are marinated in a mixture of calamansi, spices and brown sugar

Brown sugar

Brown sugar is a sucrose sugar product with a distinctive brown color due to the presence of molasses. It is either an unrefined or partially refined soft sugar consisting of sugar crystals with some residual molasses content or produced by the addition of molasses to refined white sugar....
before being grilled. A popular staple in Philippine street food, chicken feet are commonly known as "Adidas

Adidas

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" (named after the athletic shoe brand).