After traveling to Fengjie, I found that not only is it extremely rich in tourism, but also the White Emperor City, Chumen, Qutang Gorge, the top of the Three Gorges, the Xiaozhai Sinkhole, and the Longqiao River are all world-class attractions, and there are also many special foods, such as hanging pot slag, noodles, chicken and so on are very good.
Especially this chicken, local friends specially recommended that we must try, but also said that it is Chongqing municipal intangible cultural heritage, when we came to a restaurant found that there is a master studio, there are intangible cultural inheritors.
Although Yu Fan is a Chongqing native, he also has a certain understanding of Sichuan cuisine, but before he came to Fengjie, he really did not know the famous dish of chicken, which is really ashamed to say, and if it is not introduced by friends who are traveling with him, he does not even know how to pronounce the first word, I don't know if everyone will recognize it? Can i recognize friends who can type pinyin in the comment area?
According to local friends in the same industry, the chicken, also known as the Ziyang chicken, has a history of thousands of years, and the birthplace is Fengjie. Its strict selection of ingredients and exquisite workmanship make it a traditional delicacy that has been loved by people for generations. It is made from old bacon smoked from alpine pine wood and farmhouse chicken, supplemented by aged "kohlrabi" steamed with special sycophants.
The chicken is a kind of pottery, cylindrical shape, some convex in the middle, called the cup, the characteristics of the chicken is "condensation distillation, gas into soup, the meat is tender, the soup is mellow and delicious, seven points into the taste, three points aftertaste". A local celebrity chef also wrote a poem for it: "Chicken does not open and call bacon fragrant, large head radish with ginger, no raw water has its own water, wenwu fire with small fire." Flesh and bone separation is the most suitable taste, yin and yang are the most aphrodisiac".
The chicken on the table has soup and water, and it is very fresh to drink, but the ingredients are not added to the soup, where does the soup of the chicken come from? It turns out that when the steam in the cup rises, it condenses into distilled water, then drops into the ingredients, and finally turns the steam into soup, combined with the freshness of the native chicken and the aroma of bacon, so it forms a unique chicken, which is quite similar to the steam pot chicken in Yunnan.
Chicken is a folk food handed down by the people of Fengjie for thousands of years, perhaps more than 1200 years ago, when Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi and other great poets passed by Fengjie, they may have eaten the same food, but at that time it was not called Chicken, right? If you travel to Fengjie, it is recommended not to miss it.