Steam pot chicken
On May 13th, the "Elder Chinese Culinary Master Jiang Biao Master Diansheng Qi Harvesting Ceremony" was held at the "DianshengQi" Yunnan Steam Pot Banquet Theme Restaurant at Saigon Wharf on Dianchi Road in Kunming.
Master Jiang Biao, a veteran Chinese cooking master, a master of Dian cuisine, and one of the top ten famous chefs in Yunnan, was officially born in Yiliang, the hometown of Zhaotong Tianma, who is keen on Zhaotong Tianma food culture, who has loved cooking since childhood, and who has integrated the art of song and dance into catering fashion, Ms. Wu Nengfei, founder of the brand "Dian Shengqi", and Wang Fei, the head chef of "Dianshengqi" from the Zhaotong chef family who is good at cooking Zhaotong Xiaocaoba Tianma Steam Pot Chicken and Yunnan Dian Cuisine, led the "Dianshengqi" chef team to launch exclusively" Yunnan Steam Pot Banquet", which makes many Yunnan catering tycoons, food experts, cooking masters, Yunnan cuisine celebrity chefs, and guests from all walks of life feast their eyes and mouths! Cheers likes. Yang Aijun, joint founding president of the Yunnan Catering and Gastronomy Industry Association, Zhang Xianrong, the current president, and guests from all walks of life unveiled the "Yunnan Steam Pot Banquet", and also awarded the "Yunnan Famous Dish" medal for the "Yunnan Famous Dish" awarded by Master Jiang Biao's true biography of "Yunnan Sound Gas Zhu Ti Tianma Steam Pot Chicken" (Zhaotong ancient name Zhu Ti). This is the first time that the Yunnan catering industry has held a cooking master reception and the leaders of the catering association to attend the unveiling ceremony in the same restaurant. Marking the "Diansheng Qi Double Happiness Linmen" singing "Zhaotong Tianma Steam Pot Chicken · Mountain Treasure Soil Vegetable Steam Pot Dish • Yunnan Steam Pot Feast • Zhengqi Pot"! Launch the brand of "Let the green Dian cuisine make a sound, fight for the yunnan dian flavor and dian sheng qi"!
Jianshui steam pot chicken Kunming cultivates righteous qi
Yunnan people pay attention to eating "soil" chicken, emphasizing that "chicken has a chicken road, duck has a duck road, and eating chicken talks about the road." Wherever you go, you like to chase and eat local "famous chickens". Yunnan's "famous native chickens" have their own characteristics according to their origin, variety and cooking methods, such as Jianshui purple pottery steam pot chicken, Wuding Zhuang chicken, castrated hen, Xishuangbanna main Menghai roast chicken, Dehong Jingpo ghost chicken, Yuxi soy sauce chicken, Qujing Zhanyi spicy chicken, Malong Shengou spicy chicken, Lincang hand-torn chicken, Yunxian ham papaya chicken, Zhaotong Tianma stewed chicken, Nujiang fire-roasted chicken and so on. If you get to that place and don't eat the "famous" chicken from that place? That's really not "famous"! Of course, Yunnan is most famous for its steam pot chicken! Although Yunnan steam pot chicken originated in Jianshui County, it has become the signature dish of Dian cuisine and the "representative" chicken of Yunnan famous chicken because of its long history, unique cooking utensils, cooking nutrition, distilled water raw chicken soup, mellow taste, the earliest "fame", "fame" Kunming, Yunnan Province and even at home and abroad! So that the "old experts" in the domestic culinary circles believe that "Yunnan has no cuisine", many foreigners "recognize (know)" Yunnan famous dishes, only know "Yunnan steam pot chicken", do not know that Yunnan cuisine has ethnic cuisine, wild mushroom cuisine, Tuodong soy sauce cuisine and other Yunnan cuisine.
There are friends from afar, what kind of banquet will Kunming people and even people who enter Yunnan take to entertain vips?
Of course it is Yunnan steam pot chicken!
Since the Jianshui people went to Kunming in the 1940s to open the first steam pot chicken "cultivation of righteous gas hall", the old Kunming people have taken the steam pot chicken of cultivating healthy gas as their most proud home signature dish, and constantly show it off and entertain guests. In 1972, the state banquet when US President Nixon visited China, followed by the state banquet of Queen Elizabeth's visit to Yunnan, the state banquet of Kunming '99 World Horticultural Exposition to entertain heads of state, the state banquet of the 2005 GMS conference, etc., all of which used the cultivation of healthy steam pot chicken as the main dish, making people "drink dishes". Form the eating habit that guests who come to Yunnan must eat Yunnan steam pot chicken.
Cultivating Zhengqi steam pot chicken, originated from Jianshui steam pot chicken, was originally created by Yang Li, a Jianshui person during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and has a history of more than 200 years. It is named for its cooking utensils with a shape like a flat drum, a bamboo shoot column mouth in the middle, and a steam pot steaming chicken that can be steamed like a steamer overlapping steaming chicken. In 1947, Jianshui people Bao Hongwei and his wife first opened the "Cultivation of Healthy Qi" specializing in steam pot chicken in Fuzhao Street (now Wuyi Road) in Kunming, and introduced Jianshui steam pot chicken to Kunming. This dish creatively stacks the fresh chicken pieces evenly around the hole in the steam pot, puts ginger slices and salt, like a pagoda layer by layer on the clay pot added to the mountain spring water, the top steam pot lid is tightly covered, and the clay pot and the steam pot and the steam pot lid are sealed with cotton paper balls at the junction, so that the steam does not leak out. Use the bottom of the clay pot on high heat for 6 to 8 hours, so that the water vapor rushes from the steam pot spout into the steam pot to steam chicken, and then flows back into the steam pot to become steam sweat (distilled water) original chicken soup; To achieve chicken steaming thoroughly, golden color, grilled but not rotten, with chopsticks on the "separation of bone and flesh", the entrance is melted, tender and fragrant; chicken soup is clear and transparent, original taste, can be called "Yunnan first dish" of the "food effect". Outsiders named it Yunnan steam pot chicken, which was listed as a state banquet dish and became famous all over the world.
Cultivate righteousness into a brand
Pioneered medicinal steam pot chicken
In 1947, Jianshui people Bao Hongwei and his wife came to Kunming, in Fuzhao Street (now Wuyi Road) opened Kunming's first "Jianshui Steam Pot Chicken Restaurant", specializing in the operation of Jianshui Steam Pot Chicken became popular, Bao Hongwei and his wife experimented with Wuding Zhuang chicken to make steam pot chicken, the result of the meat soup is so good that the husband and wife changed the business idea of the previous house near and far, chicken raw materials are purchased from Jianshui, directly use Wuding chicken to steam pot chicken, so that the "Jianshui Steam Pot Chicken House" Bao couple made the steam pot chicken taste better and more famous. More and more sought after by people from all walks of life in Kunming, officials and gentry, there is a hot scene of diners coming late without table seats, setting up banquets to be booked, and eating to wait for the overturning of the table.
One evening, the business of "Jianshui Steam Pot Chicken Restaurant" was as lively as usual, so that people waited for the table to wait for seats. A guest at the Eight Immortals table ordered two pots of steam pot chicken, and there was a small half pot that was not finished, and when he saw a young man wearing an old school uniform next to him holding an earthen pot and staring at the steam pot chicken on the table, he was embarrassed to eat it again, so he had to get up and leave.
A small boss waiting for the table just saw the guests at this table get up, so he shouted, "Shop little two, come and clean up, uncle I will sit at this table."
The shopkeeper shouted, "Here it comes!" Before the shop's little two came to the table, the young man wearing old school clothes suddenly ran to the table and poured the small half pot of steam pot chicken into the earthen pot.
When the little boss saw this, he immediately cried out, "How do you let Hanako come to the table to pour the leftover soup?!" How can you eat Lao Tzu?! ”
The young student who had poured chicken soup and turned around to leave suddenly stopped when he heard this, turned his face to the little boss and asked, "Which is called Hanako?" I didn't ask you for dinner? Don't think that a few stinky money think you are great! ”
The little boss immediately jumped up: "Little name Hanako, dare to talk back to Lao Tzu?!" "Raise your hand and hit the young students."
Bao Hongwei heard the quarrel and rushed to come in time, reached out and grabbed the wrist of the small boss and said: "What is there to say, you can't beat people with your hands."
The little boss threw his arm away: "What is there to say about Hanako, when I see him pouring leftover soup, I am disgusted and disgusted!" ”
Bao Hongwei turned to the young student and asked, "You are so young, why did you come to pour steam pot chicken?" ”
The young student replied: "My father just died of illness, there was no income at home, I took a leave of absence from school, my mother was sick, and I did not eat for several days." The doctor told me: Your mother is weak, you can drink more steam pot chicken soup in the Jianshui Steam Pot Chicken Restaurant. This afternoon I came here to wait, and when I saw that this table of guests still had half a pot of steam pot chicken left, it was a pity that it was wasted, so I poured it into the clay pot. But what does it have to do with him when I pour someone else's leftover steam pot chicken? Why did he insult people?! ”
The little boss who had just sat on the stool slapped the Eight Immortals table and jumped up: "You poured the leftovers of soup on my table, which affected my appetite, you little flower!" What about I scolded you?! ”
Bao Hongwei said to the little boss: "Sir, you haven't ordered yet, just say that this young man poured the leftovers on your table and affected your appetite. It's really you who loses. Don't yell anymore, order food! If you really don't have an appetite here, go to another restaurant to change your appetite! ”
The diners at the neighboring table who were watching also condemned the small boss: "The boss of the bag is right, you either order food or go to another restaurant to change your appetite, what is the meaning of yelling at a poor student?" ”
Bao Hongwei's wife also rushed over to the little boss and said, "I am not a rare guest like you, you go elsewhere to eat! ”
The little boss glanced at Bao Hongwei and his wife, the young students and the diners around them: "Hmm, if you have money, you can't eat good things?" walk! Let's go to another restaurant! After saying that, the people angrily whisked their sleeves away.
Immediately, another wave of guests at the waiting table made up for the lack of this table.
The young student was busy holding the clay pot and bowed to Bao Hongwei and said, "Boss Bao, I'm sorry to spoil your business!" ”
Bao Hongwei said to the young students: "The two of us came to Kunming from Jianshui, and we only knew that to do business, we must talk about credibility, and we must cultivate righteousness in life. If the evil qi in my restaurant overwhelms the righteous qi, what kind of business will I do! Boy, I see that you are a filial piety, from today onwards, within a month, you do not have to spend a copper plate, you can come every day to serve a pot of steam pot chicken I made, let your mother have a good nourishment, your mother is not easy to raise you so big."
The young student shook his head in a hurry: "No, no, our family can't eat your steam pot chicken for free!" ”
Bao Hongwei smiled: "Your parents have cultivated your filial piety, and my steam pot chicken is also to cultivate people's righteousness!" Helping others, not talking about charity, filial piety, no face. ”
The young student nodded and bowed and said, "Thank you Boss Bao." ”
The mother of the young student ate the steam pot chicken for a month, the body fully recovered, the young students also returned to school, the students listened to the "Jianshui steam pot chicken house" to cultivate righteousness, everyone donated money to engrave a plaque of "cultivating righteousness", and asked the mother of the classmate to come to the door together to give the "Jianshui steam pot chicken house" Bao Hongwei and his wife. Since then, Bao Hongwei and his wife have changed the name of "Jianshui Steam Pot Chicken Restaurant" to "Cultivating Healthy Qi Pavilion", and Kunming people have called Jianshui Steam Pot Chicken "Cultivating Healthy Gas Pot Chicken", and "Cultivating Healthy Qi" has greatly enhanced its reputation and become a famous brand of old Kunming catering.
From this chicken donation incident, Bao Hongwei also realized the principle of using steam pot chicken to nourish the body and strengthen the body with food therapy. He specifically went to consult many old Chinese medicine practitioners, listened to the advice of many diners, referred to the ancient dietary therapy classics, medicinal diet recipes, "food test" developed a "tianma steam pot chicken" that steamed tianma and chicken in one pot, "cordyceps steam pot chicken" that steamed cordyceps and chicken in one pot, steamed three seven and chicken in one pot, or used steam pot chicken soup to send three seven powder into the belly of the "three seven steam pot chicken" and other tonic medicinal food steam pot chicken, so that the steam pot chicken not only increased in variety, but also nourished the mouth, played a greater nourishing nutrition, physical fitness, The medicinal dietary therapeutic effect of preventing and treating a variety of diseases has truly achieved the purpose of "cultivating righteous qi" in medicinal steam pot chicken. To make the "cultivation of righteous qi" more famous, Kunming people invite guests, or there are infirm people, or women have dolls, all of which are the first choice to eat "cultivating righteous qi" medicinal food steam pot chicken. It is the so-called "Kunming no one does not eat to cultivate the healthy gas steam pot chicken".
Yang Li "cooking pot blind date" creative steam pot chicken
The potters Chen family brothers and sisters made Lin'an purple pottery steam pot
So, which one was the earliest invention of steam pot chicken?
Jianshui County in Yunnan Province was called Lin'an in ancient times, Lin'an Road was set up in the Yuan Dynasty, and Lin'an Province was placed in the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty.
According to historical records, pottery was produced in the Song Dynasty of Lin'an Province, and the Qing Dynasty was quite famous. Together with Jiangsu Yixing pottery, Guangdong stone pottery, sichuan pottery, it ranks among the four famous potteries in China.
During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a poor talent in Lin'an named Yang Li, who was full of economy, known for filial piety, and made a good dish. However, in order to serve the elderly and sickly old mother, he has always been reluctant to leave home to take the exam to get a meritorious name, and he does not dare to talk about marriage in the year of establishment. His mother was suffering from a chronic disease of weakness, headache and dizziness, and many local langzhong prescribed a lot of medicines to eat but did not work. One day, a "traveling doctor" took the initiative to come to the door to see Yang Li's mother, and prescribed a dietary treatment recipe of "eating steamed original chicken without sticking to iron", which "harmed" Yang Li and thought about it without a clue.
On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve in the thirty-fourth year of Qianlong, Chen Taonan, Yang Li's good friend and a famous potter in Lin'an, dragged Yang Li's mother and son to their home to eat mixed cooking pots Chinese New Year's Eve rice.
During the banquet, Chen Taonan had a sister named Zi Juan, who had long had a crush on Yang Li and was not easy to say, and he vigorously picked vegetables for Yang Li's mother, and from time to time threw an autumn wave to Yang Li to express his love. Yang Li was poor because of his mother's illness, and did not dare to look at the purple crane, and his two eyes were tightly staring at the assorted copper cooking pot covered with fresh meat and tofu balls, meat slices, ham slices, crispy meat, and cabbage.
Chen Taonan has long wanted to promote the "good things" of friends and sisters. Who knows that Chinese New Year's Eve hurt and bothered to engage in a "cooking pot blind date", but Yang Li only looked at the cooking pot and did not look at his sister, did not understand Qiu Bo, did not eat or drink, and did not speak. Chen Taonan was so angry that he lifted his wine glass and drank three cups in a row, and he roared at Yang Li with a violent roar: "I see that you read and read as a dumb melon, you should become a family and not a family, and you will hurt my family's female dolls, so why don't you want to boil my little sister into an old mother?" Poor Xiucai still has a face and is reluctant to come to my house (into excess). You hurt my sister, you can't get a good wife, what kind of good life will there be in the future?! ”
Yang Li suddenly came to inspiration, pointed at the cooking pot with chopsticks and suddenly shouted: "There is!" pregnant! ”
Yang Mu and Chen Taonan shouted in unison, "What's a good idea?" Speak up quickly, do a good thing."
Yang Li said, "Look at the cooking pot!"!
Everyone was dumbfounded: "What is the good look of the cooking pot?" ”
Yang Liyi changed his book and became angry, and his eyebrows fluttered and he said: "If we make a copper cooking pot into a clay pot, and steam steam in the middle of the pot without burning, won't we be able to steam out the steam pot chicken that does not stick to the iron and cure my mother's illness?" Don't we have a good life"?
Zi Juan excitedly poured wine, touched the cup with Yang Li and said, "I toast you!" I didn't look at the wrong person, these years have not waited in vain, with you, there will be a good day"! Bumped a glass of wine with Yang Li.
Zi Juan poured another glass of wine and touched a glass with Chen Taonan and said, "Brother! We dried this glass of wine and made a purple clay steam pot together"!
Yang Li's idea was repeatedly experimented by the Chen brothers and sisters, and finally created a Lin'an purple pottery steam pot cooker with a shape like a flat drum and a bamboo shoot column in the middle, which can be like a steamer basket overlapping steaming chicken steaming various ingredients.
After Yang Li selected the local native chicken to slaughter, he removed the hair and removed the head to claw the food, ripped off the trachea and esophagus, dissected the abdomen and removed the internal organs and washed, chopped the chicken into pieces, evenly stacked the chicken pieces around the hole in the steam pot, put a few pieces of ginger and a little salt, added the matching firing clay pot to the mountain spring water as the bottom pot, put the steam pot with the yard chicken on the matching pottery bottom pot, covered the pot lid, and used cotton paper to seal the gas pot lid and the connection between each layer of the steam pot tightly sealed tightly, so that the steam would not leak out. Then use the high fire to match the pottery bottom pot, burn the water vapor in the clay pot from the steam pot spout into the layer of steam pot steam pot chicken, water vapor in the process of 6 hours of steam pot chicken to produce changes into steam sweat (distilled water) dripping into each steam pot, steam sweat (distilled water) will become the original chicken soup of the steam pot chicken; chicken is cooked thoroughly, soft and not rotten. Yang Li brought the steam pot to the table and invited his mother to enjoy the steam pot chicken.
Yang Mother saw that this chicken was golden in color, and the chicken meat was "separated from the bone and flesh" with a flick of chopsticks, sent to the mouth, melted in the mouth, and the chicken was tender and fragrant; the chicken soup was clear and transparent, the original taste, and the heartfelt praise.
Yang mother ate the steam pot chicken for a period of time, but also found that the steamed chicken with the purple pottery steam pot chicken overnight will not be satisfied, but also to preserve the nutrition and delicious, is very happy, the appetite is good, the mood is good, the body is good, it contributed to Yang Li's marriage to the purple crane, the family opened a "Lin'an steam pot chicken restaurant", Yang Mother has a steam pot chicken to eat every day, good health, the whole family has a beautiful life, the steam pot chicken aroma name thus drifted from yunnan to Yunnan.
Dare to compete with Qianlong for steam pot chicken
The prefect of Lin'an was built in Shuizhi County
According to the legend of Jianshui, in the thirty-fifth year of Qianlong (1770 AD), the Qianlong Emperor, after many private visits to Jiangnan, quietly paid a private visit to Yunnan, and on the day of the Lantern Festival, he came to Lin'an Province, walked up to The Stone Street of Lin'an City, smelled a strange aroma of chicken in the steam pot from afar, causing appetite to salivate, and then looked for incense and stepped into the "Lin'an Steam Pot Chicken Restaurant", and at a glance saw rows and stacks of strange shapes such as pagodas, and like copper flat drums vibrating incense mist, layers of incense burners emitting purple smoke, purple pottery steam pot aroma, steaming chicken flavor straight to the nose cavity It tempted Qianlong to be hungry and greedy, and he immediately wanted to eat.
Shop small two told: the steaming chicken time has not arrived, can not be cooked.
Qianlong had to be patient and his entourage to drink Pu'er tea and wait with hunger, and it was hard to wait until the diners entered the store to eat, only to see that the shopkeeper Xiao Er served a pot of steam pot chicken to other diners who had just entered the store, that is, it was not bad to the Qianlong Emperor.
The Qianlong Emperor was immediately angry: "I heard about the Eighteen Monsters of Yunnan earlier, but I didn't expect that the Lin'an Steam Pot Chicken House also had the strange thing of 'the first comers don't go to the chickens, and the latecomers chickens go first'!" Isn't it bullying foreigners who have just come to Yunnan? ”
Yang Li's wife, Zi Juan, greeted the Qianlong Emperor with a smile and said: "The guest officer does not know that these steam pot chickens are all booked by others, and the guest officer may wish to cook and eat other dishes on the spot."
The Qianlong Emperor sank, pointed to the last two pots of steam pot chicken and said, "Is there any reason for this!" Don't you still have two pots of steam pot chicken in your shop? Why fool the foreigners who come to the country? ”
Yang Li hurriedly stepped forward and said, "These two pots of chicken and one pot were ordered by Lord Tang of lin'an prefect, and the other pot was left for my mother to eat." ”
The Qianlong Emperor rebuked: "The prefect of Lin'an is a magistrate, and he can come to this shop every day to eat chicken, but the foreigners who come to the temple are not, so let us eat the chicken ordered by the prefect!" ”
At this time, Tang Xing, the prefect of Lin'an, and his colleagues rushed into the store. As soon as he heard that Qianlong wanted to eat the chicken he had ordered, he immediately said, "Where is it sacred?" Dare to eat the steam pot chicken of the prefect? ”
The plainclothes inner guard jumped from behind Qianlong to the tang prefect with an arrow and said, "Speak politely, beware of not eating chicken life!" ”
Tang Prefect snorted in a nasal voice: "Hum! The toad yawns and gulps! Come on people, take down these rioters, and see who hasn't eaten chicken. ”
"Slow down!" Yang Li's mother turned to the Tang prefect and said, "Your Excellency, the prefect forgives!" Nowadays, the world of peace and prosperity should not be fought over food and drink. Then he turned to the Qianlong Emperor and said, "The guest officer does not know, the old man is weak and sick, my son is filial piety, every day to the old body steam pot chicken food therapy, now the old body has recovered health, a day does not eat steam pot chicken does not matter." Let my son's filial piety to my pot of steam pot chicken and you who come from abroad! The world's diners are one family, and they should not be hurt and angry. ”
Yang Li hurriedly said: "Everyone has chicken to eat, everyone is happy, please take a seat." Little two, get on the chicken! On the Lin'an steam pot chicken! ”
The Qianlong Emperor waved his hand: "Madame Tai is right, taiping and prosperous, don't fight for food and drink." Everyone sat down and tasted the Yunnan steam pot chicken."
None of the Qianlong Emperor's entourage dared to take a seat, and Bi respectfully stood behind him and said in unison, "Master please!" I'll wait to eat something else."
The Qianlong Emperor had long been attracted by the smell of steam pot chicken and was uncomfortable with the "kitten scratching his heart", no longer speaking, a person ate a pot of steam pot chicken, even the chicken soup also drank a bottom to the sky, and gladly shouted to Yang Li's mother and son: "It is so delicious!" Peace and prosperity, you can't eat the people's things in vain, chicken money is paid, and the inscription is given to you by the way."
The Qianlong Emperor's plainclothes entourage immediately spread pen and ink paper on the table.
The Qianlong Emperor wrote an oil poem with a wave: "When I first entered Yunnan Province, I first tasted the steam pot chicken, which was delicious and delicious, and the first chicken in the world." Qianlong wrote another scroll and handed it to the plainclothes guards to hand over to the Tang prefect, and went out on horseback to lead the crowd away.
Tang Xing opened the paper scroll disapprovingly, only to see that the paper was impressively written: "Scramble to eat and fight, the prefect becomes the county." The fifteenth day of the first month of the thirty-fifth year of the Qianlong Dynasty. ”
When Tang Xing saw the handwriting of the Qianlong Emperor that he was familiar with, he immediately collapsed to the ground in fright.
Sure enough, in this year, what was once Lin'an Road in the Yuan Dynasty, Lin'an Province in the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, was reduced to Jianshui County. Tang Xing also changed from the prefect of Lin'an to Jianshui Zhi County.
The story of the Qianlong Emperor and "the world's first chicken, Yunnan steam pot chicken" and Lin'an Province's descent into Jianshui County has since spread.
Master Li Qing, a master of Dian cuisine, narrates the history of dictation
Steam pot chicken from queuing to counterfeit smashing signs
Master Li Qing, a national special first-class chef, a veteran Chinese cooking master, a master of Dian cuisine, and the former general manager of the Beijing Hotel in Kunming, said in an interview with reporters: After the public-private partnership in 1956, the "cultivation of zhengqi hall" was changed to "the cultivation of zhengqi hotel". Bao Hongwei retired. At the beginning of 1960, the "Cultivating Righteous Qi Hotel" was merged into the "Near Western Restaurant", and in 1965 it was merged into the "Mass Canteen", and during the Cultural Revolution, it was changed to "Dongfeng Restaurant". "Cultivating Righteous Qi" Since the public-private partnership, old Dianwei chefs Qin Guoxiang, Wang Ji and other masters have come in to cook steam pot chicken. From "Cultivating Healthy Qi" to "Dongfeng Restaurant", the maximum number of employees is 39. In the 1970s and 1980s, it was also common to see Kunming people carrying large antimony pots to queue up to bring out steam pot chickens. From the 60s to the 1980s, dongfeng restaurant's cultivation of positive gas steam pot chicken is still very famous, although the owner of the training of zhengqi hall has worked from Dongfeng restaurant to Kunming Beijing Hotel, but the high-end reception of Kunming Beijing Hotel every time I encounter VIP guests who need steam pot chicken, I also personally ride a tricycle to Dongfeng restaurant to train positive gas steam pot chicken to feast on VIPs.
With the deepening of reform and opening up, the "patent" of the state-owned Dongfeng restaurant specializing in steam pot chicken was cancelled. All kinds of restaurants in Kunming can operate Yunnan steam pot chicken. In the 1990s, almost some of the larger restaurants in Kunming sold Yunnan steam pot chicken. Some restaurants are driven by economic interests, and feel that the steam pot chicken process is troublesome, so they cook the big pot chicken in advance, and when they encounter guests ordering the steam pot chicken, they scoop the big pot chicken into the steam pot and pretend to be the steam pot chicken, causing diners inside and outside the province to exclaim: "Fooled"! Yunnan steam pot chicken becomes inferior to clear soup chicken! Counterfeit steam pot chicken was discredited almost overnight, and few people in Kunming ordered steam pot chicken again, and few restaurants sold steam pot chicken again. It's a pity! This pair of state-run Dongfeng restaurants that have not been renovated for 10 years and only have 118 square meters of business area, while the kitchen and production rooms have a strong impact on the 224 square meters of state-owned Dongfeng restaurants, and dongfeng restaurants have begun to go downhill in losses. In October 1992, Dong Yuqing, the owner of Kunming's individual restaurant "Shulin Restaurant", and Mr. and Mrs. Ling Ling contracted the Dongfeng Restaurant, renovated the old restaurant, expanded the business area, laid a red carpet on the corridor, opened a private seat room on the second floor, and added "Shen Leg" and other Sichuan-style specialties. Later, The Shulin Restaurant turned to the operation of the Shulin self-service hot pot and failed, five. All the way to the transformation of the old city, the Dongfeng Restaurant of the Cultivation of Zhengqi Hall has completely withdrawn from people's vision.
Chrysanthemum silver ear steam pot chicken won the national gold award
Yunnan steam pot chicken has become yunnan's signature dish
The late Yunnan cuisine master, national special first-class chef, vice president of the Yunnan Provincial Culinary Association, Chinese cooking master, senior instructor of new Oriental Cooking School, and technical director of Kunming Cai Ruochun Restaurant, said in an interview with reporters 10 years ago: In 1983, the national cooking competition was held in Beijing, and my father Wu Zide went to Beijing on behalf of Yunnan to compete, and brought out a pot of innovative dishes that the national judges and contestants had never seen before - Yunnan chrysanthemum silver ear steam pot chicken, which won the gold medal in one fell swoop. It has been praised by central leaders such as Vice Premier Tian Jiyun of the State Council and judges of the competition, and has become a hot topic in many media. The fame of steam pot chicken spread throughout Europe and the United States, and the global culinary community is hotly discussed yunnan steam pot chicken. I was working as a chef at the British Embassy at the time, and I was very proud to see the news that my father had won the gold medal for cooking Yunnan steam pot chicken in the British Chinese newspaper and magazine.
Nowadays, Jianshui purple pottery steam pot has driven the Jianshui purple pottery industry, and the Jianshui purple pottery steam pot has long been sold to Yunnan cuisine restaurants and hotels around the world, and has become the logo of Yunnan cuisine restaurants and the symbol of Yunnan cuisine food culture. Almost all Yunnan chefs who have learned to cook will make original Yunnan steam pot chicken. Chefs from all over Yunnan have also learned to "cook chicken according to their materials", using local special ingredients, wild mushrooms, and food and medicine dual-use medicinal materials stipulated in the national food and medicine codes to cook steam pot chicken. Cooking up tianma steam pot chicken, sanqi steam pot chicken, cloud ginseng steam pot chicken, kudzu steam pot chicken and other medicinal food steam pot chicken, matsutake steam pot chicken, block mushroom steam pot chicken, chicken fir steam pot chicken, cold mushroom steam pot chicken and other wild mushroom mountain zhen steam pot chicken, as well as a variety of ingredients, various flavors of Yunnan steam pot chicken. Let the "foodies" who love to eat and drink meet the delicious Yunnan steam pot chicken, and really can eat all the chicken meat of the yunnan steam pot chicken and drink the chicken soup alone. Promote yunnan's most famous dish Yunnan steam pot chicken to become popular, not only out of Yunnan, to China's first-tier cities, but also out of the country, into Singapore, into the United States, Australia, into more developed countries, become the signature dish of "Yunnan cuisine" restaurants at home and abroad, global popularity, the world's fragrant. When eating Yunnan steam pot chicken becomes a common meal and commonplace, it will inevitably give birth to the Yunnan steam pot feast "taking advantage of the chicken" to appear
"Steam pot chicken" was raised to a new level of "steam pot banquet"
Launched the brand of "Yunnan Steam Pot Banquet"
In the spring of 2021, Wang Yitian and Wu Nengfei, the founders of the "Dianshengqi" restaurant who have always wanted to improve the cooking skills of the "Dianshengqi" chef team, finally found the 79-year-old Chinese cooking master, The Master of Dian Cuisine, and the "DianShengqi Model" of Yunnan's top ten famous chefs, Master Jiang Biao, and implored Master Jiang Biao to enter the "Dianshengqi" to receive apprentices. Master Jiang Biao, who contributed to Yunnan catering, agreed to the request of Wang Yitian and Wu Nengfei, and introduced the catering experts, cooking masters and celebrity chef apprentices around him to Wang Yitian and Wu Nengfei. Yunnan gourmand Li Jialin proposed to build a "Dianshengqi" steam pot banquet theme restaurant, to elevate the famous dish of "Yunnan steam pot chicken" to a new level of "Yunnan steam pot banquet", and to start the creativity of the "Yunnan steam pot banquet" brand. Master Wang Yitian, Wu Nengfei, and Jiang Biao all agreed very much. Master Jiang Biao immediately went deep into the "Dianshengqi" kitchen in advance, led the "prospective apprentices" Wu Nengfei, Wang Fei and the Dianshengqi chef team, using Master Jiang Biao's 60 years of Yunnan steam pot chicken cooking techniques, traditional recipes, unique Dian cuisine cooking skills, selecting Zhaotong Xiaocaoba fresh tianma, Zhaotong farmhouse mountain range stock chicken ingredients, research and development and innovation to cook successfully delicious and nutritious, delicious and delicious Zhaotong tianma steam pot chicken, the selection of Yunnan wild mushroom mountain rare specialties, Yunnan Zhaotong and other cities and counties and townships local livestock and poultry, Yunnan plateau lakes aquatic products, green ecological ingredients, Yunnan local specialty ingredients, successfully cooked first-class, delicious nutrition, good-looking and delicious steam pot blue head fungus, steam pot old goose, steam pot beef, steam pot ribs, steam pot truffle meat cake, steam pot potato powder steamed meat, steam pot wild mushroom steamed egg, steam pot fresh meat tofu rounds, steam pot seasonal vegetables, steam pot milk pigeon, steam pot Zhaotong Wanhe vinegar fish, steam pot Zhaotong sauerkraut red beans, Tuodong soy sauce porcini mushroom steam pot stewed rice, steam pot Zhaotong thin bean powder, steam pot Zhaotong sour and spicy dumplings, steam pot gold and silver ear desserts and dozens of unique Zhaotong flavor feast dishes " Yunnan steam pot feast". Wang Yitian, Wu Nengfei, Jiang Biao, Li Jialin, and other Dian cuisine experts also specially drove to the hometown of Jianshui steam pot to select and customize the "Diansheng gas Yunnan steam pot banquet" to build a water steam pot, so that the "Yunnan steam pot banquet" has a good color, aroma, taste, shape, quality, and utensils, and has reached a higher level. In Kunming, the exclusive launch of the "Diansheng gas Yunnan steam pot banquet" is favored by consumers, diners have used their mobile phones to shoot the "Yunnan steam pot banquet" gourmet dish map on the spot, send the circle of friends to post the beautiful picture, and then taste. The Yunnan people's proverb "make a dragon to show its claws, make a dish before offering a feast" evolved into "make a picture before eating a banquet, attracting friends to salivate" New "food shang". The truth caused friends to brush the screen to praise and salivate, have asked for addresses, scrambled to taste, and ate all applauded! Coupled with the all-media "Yunnan Steam Pot Banquet" report and consumer word-of-mouth publicity, more and more Yunnan diners have become repeat customers, and distant guests have competed to become "Yunnan Steam Pot Banquet" early adopters.
Yunnan network correspondent Li Jialin photo report