BEGGAR CHICKEN

Hangzhou beggar is one of the leading specialty of school food , Zhejiang (China), is famous throughout the world by a unique process as well as its taste.

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Beggar is created in a very special situation. A homeless beggar who Hangzhou, in hunger, but to desperately poaching chicken in a roadside garden to soothe gurgly noises emanating from the empty stomach has many days.He is a fire and prepare chicken when suddenly, the Emperor and the courtiers of who are coming increasingly close.In a panic, he took mud chicken wrap and throw it back into the fire. The aroma of chicken thrown into the fire attracted the Emperor stopped and ate with the other beggars. Surprisingly, the delicious food to the Emperor insisted want to know how to cook them. The result is a grilled chicken dish was put on the menu in the provision of the king and became a very popular dish today.

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Whole chickens, remove the whole womb are essential ingredients for this dish. To bring the aroma, sweet taste to the dish, chicken must be washed with a mixture of rice wine and then stuffed with scallions, ginger, soy powder, five tastes, and some Chinese herbs into the cavity of the chicken, making More nutty chicken and remove all smell bad.Before you bring your mud wrap and bake in the fire, people get the lotus or palm leaves to wrap the chicken.

Foil wrapped chicken will not be muddy, but the aromatic nature of the leaves. Mud wrap chicken must be meticulously molded with water and 1 kg of salt. Salt do not completely change the flavor of the chicken, otherwise it will drive the mud and not long out during baking.

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After hours baking in a fire, flavors of the ingredients stuffed inside is not lost. Furthermore, the chicken becomes greasy, soft, sweet, not dry and very attractive aroma. In particular, all the chicken bones out of meat block negotiations and just use a small pair of chopsticks can be gently separated bones and meat.

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Because the processing is very unique dish and the price is quite expensive, so far, not many restaurants serve this dish in their menu without customers booking.

At first look, the dish does not seem to be very eye catching, if not a bit bizarre. But it really is a dish flavored China that anyone should not miss.