Popular fried chicken is a metaphor for people who are becoming popular, and it is the most popular adjective in the entertainment industry today.
The popular fried chicken, although the media in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia use this metaphor, the source may be in Hong Kong.
"Popular" may be a Hong Kong Cantonese word, which means "being popular" and has richer connotations than "being popular". "Being popular" just means "having a good time" and "being popular", and lacks tense. "Dang" means "right and proper", indicating that "being popular" is in the present progressive tense.
"子" means "young, immature", so "子鸡" means "small and tender chicken"
The frequency of use of the metaphorical meaning of "popular fried chicken" Not low, but what is puzzling is that the newly published Hong Kong Cantonese dictionaries in recent years do not accept "popular fried chicken". "popular fried chicken" is the name of a dish in Hong Kong restaurants in the past.