where can i find raw chicken breast so i can use to grill and eat…i know wellcome and carrfor have some but its really small and expensive, anywhere else i may find it?
where can i find raw chicken breast so i can use to grill and eat…i know wellcome and carrfor have some but its really small and expensive, anyone know anywhere else i can perhaps find it?
Have you tried Costco? They have big packs and as far as I remember, it’s the cheapest cut of chicken they sell…
traditional market. fresh killed, as much as you can carry away
Any supermarket or wet market will have it. Dunno what you mean by small – chicken breasts are pretty much the same size, give or take a few grammes. They’re also among the cheapest bits of meat you can get, at around a buck and a half for two or three.
Everywhere? Any supermarket, anyway: the sizes seem to vary by the day, sometimes with two equally-sized in a packet, sometimes with three of random sizes.
If you’re looking for large quantities of meat at a low price, Costco’s your best bet. I remember they have big packets with lots and lots of boneless skinless chicken breasts.
Dumb question re: “really small”: you’re not looking at the tenderloins, are you? I do have a vague impression that chickens here are somewhat more natural than the North American beasties, and therefore the breasts aren’t as oversized as what I can get in Canada. I haven’t noticed chicken breasts being particularly small here, however.
If you’re looking for bone-in and/ or skin-on chicken breasts, I haven’t seen those here, although you could always buy a whole chicken and butcher it.
Ah. You might be comparing them to American size chicken breast fillets.
Um, it’s the American ones that are the abnormal size, not the Taiwan ones. Way too big. No idea what they do to them over there.
[quote=“urodacus”]Ah. You might be comparing them to American size chicken breast fillets.
Um, it’s the American ones that are the abnormal size, not the Taiwan ones. Way too big. No idea what they do to them over there.[/quote]
Mix hormones into the chickens’ Mickey D’s prolly.
Chicken breast is cheap in Taiwan. Nobody wants it. Too much meat. No gristle, cartilage, bone, or chewy bits. Just plain meat: how boring.
You can get bone-in and skin-on in the wet markets 
RT Mart and AMart usually have big packages (over a kilo, deboned), and if not, you can always request whatever quantity you like from the butchers there. If you buy a lot, they’ll give you an extra discount. I’ve never found the chicken breasts particularly overpriced at any of the grocery stores here, except maybe Wellcome and Jasons. We get ours at Costco, because they’re sold in bulk but packaged smaller so we can freeze them easily.
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Without the rest of the chicken? Cool. (I stopped complaining about East Asian butchering after seeing the mess I made of a whole chicken carcass.) Slightly OT: what would the Chinese be for skin-on bone-in chicken breasts?
I’m guessing the slang Chinese terms for “breast” that I know are absolutely not the same terms I’d use when talking to a chicken vendor, plus 要皮，要骨, wouldn’t cut it at all.
I don’t know technical terms, but me in my Pidgin Chinese, I would say I want skin and bones. Wo yao pi, gutou ye yao. Bu yao tuo (remove??) sorry can’t write pinyin either. :aiyo:
I’ve found chicken breast to be cheaper here, since the Taiwanese prefer thighs, wings and other “dark meat”.
[quote=“Tempo Gain”][quote=“urodacus”]Ah. You might be comparing them to American size chicken breast fillets.
Um, it’s the American ones that are the abnormal size, not the Taiwan ones. Way too big. No idea what they do to them over there.[/quote]
Mix hormones into the chickens’ Mickey D’s prolly.[/quote]
The bigger size in the states is due to selective breeding of Broiler chickens (cornish crosses). Sometimes they grow so fast their legs can’t support them (due to the effects of selective breeding). i think the americans did use hormones at one stage but it was to increase egg production. Banned since the 60s or it wasn’t cost effective or something
I prefer the smaller bred ones. Home bred chickens taste the best of course. Not possible around here for most though.
[quote=“Askr”]
The bigger size in the states is due to selective breeding of Broiler chickens (cornish crosses). Sometimes they grow so fast their legs can’t support them (due to the effects of selective breeding). I think the Americans did use hormones at one stage but it was to increase egg production. Banned since the 60s or it wasn’t cost effective or something
I prefer the smaller bred ones. Home bred chickens taste the best of course. Not possible around here for most though.[/quote]
Yup. The American grown chicken is almost twice as large as the average natural chicken and is ready for slaughtering in as little as 35 days after hatching. The males never get bigger than your fist though. Shortly after hatching, they’re all tossed into the gas chamber or thrown live into a high speed grinder.
what is the wet markets? sorry but im really new to taipei…
also i want to goto costco to buy it but i dont have a membership so that is a problem…
by small i mean they just package two breast per package as im used to larger quantities back in toronto, as they used to sell it by the pound not by grams as they do here…also i find it much more expensive here then back in toronto…
Ask at school/work. Someone will guide you to the nearest one. Get there before 9am for the best selections. Watch out for the smell. Great stuff at great prices.
These days, Costco sells memberships to anyone. Just go to the customer service desk at the entrance.
Where are you doing your shopping?
I bought some chicken livers from a wet market and my dogs wouldn’t even eat them. They always eat the ones from the supermarket. Wonder if they were just sitting out too long or if the chicken was sick…