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Q: Why does everyone laugh at me when I ask for a big chicken?
Okay, this is odd. It doesn't matter what province I'm in... it happens every time, and in every city. After getting laughed at enough times, I decided to just randomly test it out in every place I visit. Without fail, the girls double-over laughing at me every damn time.
I'm starting to feel like a Chinese person trying to speak English. Okay, I passed that point a long time ago.
The conversation usually goes like this:
Girls: What would you like?
Me: Big chicken chicken! *makes hand motions as if to describe the boundaries of a big chicken basket/bucket*
Girls *GAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHEHEHEHE*snort**
I just say "big chicken chicken," or "da ji ji" now, since I overheard this before at a KFC... some girls sitting behind me ordered a big bucket of chicken. Now every time I want a bucket of chicken, or a large chicken, I say this and point to the picture. After having so much trouble at one KFC, this fixed my problem, though I usually have to point to the picture once they're done laughing at me.
Hopefully someone with better Chinese than me, or a Chinese person, can explain why this is happening. I figure I'm really fugging up the tones like I always do. Are there other Ji meanings?
Dont know if it is the same way, but in southern China, "Checken" is slang for "prostitute".
Hulk:
That makes sense...lol, but wouldn't the girls be offended if that were the case? I mean, I'd basically be walking in and calling them hookers...
GuilinRaf:
They probably know what you mean, they are just having a laugh at your expense.
Kind of like the time that one of my students told me that he was going to blow me away. Except he said that he was going to "blow me"....
It may be because you're a big guy ordering the big chicken, mixed with being a foreigner, and possibly it's a cute way of saying it? I don't know.
"big" is sometimes used as " old" such as "big " uncle. so maybe you are asking for old chicken.
Hulk:
Hm, that makes sense. 大哥 (da ge), for example, means "oldest brother." Maybe I was asking for the oldest, nastiest chicken? lol
I think the word (ji) has an obscene meaning other than chicken, equivalent to the English word for " adult male chicken". You can say (yi zhi da ji), or (da pan ji), which mean a big chicken and a big plate of chicken respectively to avoid getting that big laughter.
Hulk:
What the? That has the same meaning as the English variant? LOL... going in and asking them for a big schlong... oh man. Please tell me you're joking...
wildcat77:
The Chinese word for d**k is （xiao ji) so you can figure out what could (da ji) mean?
I am not joking, but I am another foreigner, so I could be wrong. You should better discuss it with your wife, or a Chinese friend for a more accurate explanation.
wildcat77:
BTW, the word you overheard at the KFC is probably 大鸡翅 (da4 ji1 chi4), which means “big chicken wings”, but you mispronounced it. That should make you feel less guilty now.
Hulk, I know you are just messing around on this. You have to know the answer. Even me, with my horrible Chinese skill knows it. :)
Da Ji Ji = Really big... manhood, for lack of a more non-bannable term.
wildcat is right, Hulk.
There are some cool "coincidences " in Chinese and English language.
Hulk:
Wow, OK... Now I'm surprised I haven't been arrested for it yet...
Laughing out loud on my own on all the answers and comments. 
ji ji is what my wife call my sons penis bro 
so when you want big penis in chicken market, go for it :D
You can go into a toy shop and ask for a 'big airplane'( da feiji), you may get a funny look too depending on your tone.
Probably trying to be an attention getter, but you are what you eat. And what you just said meant to them that that's probably what you are!
I didn't know the answer, but the girlfriend provided this translation.
Girls: What would you like?
Me: Big MANHOOD NOODLE *makes hand motions as if to describe the boundaries of a big chicken basket/bucket*
Girls *GAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHEHEHEHE*snort**
Walk into a store back in your home country. Put on a thick Greek accent and tell the girl "I want a big chicken!"
Watch giggling ensue.
You went to the wrong place.
Come to burger king instead!
You went to the wrong place.
Go to Starbucks instead!
