The county grandpa made the grandpa chicken

"Taiye chicken" is a famous dish in Guangzhou, known for its red color, smooth and oily, tender skin and tender flesh, after eating this chicken, there is an afterglow in the mouth, which is endlessly evocative, and its origin is really related to a county grandfather.

In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, Zhou Guisheng, the commander of Xinhui County, Guangdong, lost his official position due to the Xinhai Revolution and his life was embarrassing, so he had no choice but to run a business of brine smoked chicken. At that time, most of the chickens eaten in Guangzhou were mainly "white cut chicken", and Zhou Guisheng, with the experience of tasting all the world's cuisine when he was an official, skillfully combined the smoke method of Jiangsu and the length of the brine method of Guangdong, and made a chicken dish with both Jiangsu characteristics and Cantonese flavor, which was called "Guangdong Yi Chicken" at that time.

Because his smoked chicken was ruddy and translucent, smoked but not burnt, crispy and fresh, fragrant into the bone marrow, for a time the fame, people rushed to buy. Later, people knew that the chicken maker was actually a county order, so it was called "Taiye Chicken", and then "Taiye Chicken" slowly became famous at home and abroad. Nowadays, while eating the "taiye chicken", we must also understand that the so-called east side is not bright and the west side is bright, no matter where we are, only unremitting efforts can do meaningful things.

(Guangdong Guangzhou reader Qu Jingsen)