chicken mami

Questions

What does chicken mami mean?

a mami soup dish of noodles and chicken meat

Where does chicken mami come from?

From chicken + mami, from a partial calque of Hokkien 雞肉麵 /鸡肉面 (koe-mah-mī, “chicken noodles”). See also Hokkien 雞肉 /鸡肉 (koe-mah).

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