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Look at the following food.

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What is the name of the food?

• Sweet chicken sauce

• Soy sauce chicken

• Brown sugar chicken

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When is the food usually served?

• on Japanese new year

• on new year

• on Chinese new year

This Is the Absolute Best Dish to Make for Lunar New Year

To celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year, which falls on January 28 this year, it's customary to serve dishes believed to bring good luck and fortune. But there is one dish in particular that Kei Lum Chan, co-author of China: The Cookbook, considers especially important for Lunar New Year's Eve: soy sauce chicken.

• It may seem contrary to begin your revelry by cooking the mate of the year's official mascot, but such is the rooster's wife's fate. According to Chan, "Having a chicken on the dinner table [is] a sign of prosperity. In the past, chicken was used as an offering to the gods to say thank you for all the good [fortune] of the past year." Rather than eating noodles, which ensure long life, or dumplings, which promise wealth for the coming year, serving chicken on New Year's Eve was a way to take pause at the year's end and show appreciation for the things you've been given.

  
  

  
  

That offering to the gods is still practiced by some Chinese people today, but Chan notes that a whole chicken boiled in water is typically the vehicle of sacrifice. Soy sauce chicken is a more modern, and infinitely more flavorful, interpretation of that dish. To make it, a whole chicken is first deep-fried until golden, and then poached in a sweetened soy sauce broth spiced with star anise and ginger, resulting in a richly flavorful bird with burnished skin and succulent meat. The broth is then reduced into a thick, sticky sauce.

Chan notes that the sauce turns otherwise bland boiled chicken into a mouth-watering dish—and in turn the chicken enriches the sauce, which can also be spooned over a bowl of rice or longevity-bestowing noodles at any point in the two weeks of celebration that follow the holiday's kick-off feast.

source: https://www.epicurious.com/holidays-events/soy-sauce-chicken-for-lunar-new-year-article

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What is the text about?

• It's about how to make soy sauce chicken.

• It's about soy sauce chicken.

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What does “noodle” means for Chinese?

• power

• long life

• wealth

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Why is the full body of the chicken put in the broth?

• to make some parts of it tasty

• to make it completely dipped

• it's a symbol of sacrifice

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How does “soy sauce chicken” taste?

• savory

• sweet

• tasty

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What is “Soy Sauce Chicken” in Indonesian?

• Ayam suir

• Ayam kecap

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When do Chinese usually eat it?

• on a wedding day

• on a funeral day

• on Chinese new year

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What does “soy sauce chicken” sign?

• healthy

• fortune

• power

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What are the spices you probably need to make the broth?

• bay leave

• brown sugar

• ginger

• garlic

• salt

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How is the broth of the chicken?

• thin

• thick