When it comes to eating chicken, There are many ways to eat on the beach. Sichuan's spit chicken, northeast china's pot chicken, Xinjiang's big plate chicken and even foreign roast chicken, fried chicken... There are many dazzling and numerous, but Shanghainese prefer white chopped chicken and are obsessed with its taste after dipping in soy sauce.
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As long as Shanghainese see white chopped chicken, even one person will order a plate, add a bowl of chicken porridge or blood soup, and share a table with strangers to eat quietly for a while. Xiao Shaoxing White Chopped Chicken has been recognized by Shanghainese with its crisp skin, tender meat, fresh taste and beautiful shape.
Speaking of the history of Xiao Shaoxing can be traced back to the 1940s, Shaoxing zhang run cattle with his father at the intersection of Ninghai East Road and Yunnan Road, using benches and paving boards to build a stall to sell chicken porridge, chicken feet and white chopped chicken, and over time diners used to call Zhang Run niu Xiao Shaoxing. At that time, "Xiao Shaoxing" once attracted a number of famous characters such as Zhou Xinfang and Yang Huasheng with live-killed and freshly roasted, cooled and sold-out, and delicious white chopped chicken, and became its regular customers.
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High-quality chicken breeds Are tender in meat
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Diners who have eaten Xiao Shaoxing white chopped chicken, the first reaction is "tender", how can more than 3 pounds of chicken be able to achieve such a tender taste? This has a lot to do with the breed of chickens.
With the daily dealing with chickens, xiao Shaoxing's chefs have tried repeatedly, found the most suitable breed for white chopped chicken, and commissioned the suburban farm breeding, the breeding period must be about 90 days, this chicken skin color is good, delicious, chicken flavor is particularly strong, after chewing the chicken flavor is not scattered.
Every morning in the morning, the masters catch the chickens and slaughter them on time, and after all the cleaning, they leave for the store at 4 a.m. For the chickens entering the store, there are strict audits, the skin cannot be broken, there can be no bruises under the skin, the chicken feet cannot be injured, and the pores cannot be too large, otherwise it will affect the appearance of the chicken.
Three ups and three drops The skin is crisp and tender
Most of the ups and downs of life are not perfect. The "chicken body" with great ups and downs gave birth to the highlight of The Little Shaoxing White Chopper Chicken.
After the "beauty pageant" of the chicken repeatedly washed the blood water, several half-human high pots in the water has been boiled, the teacher Fu carried the chicken neck to immerse the chicken in boiling water, so that three ups and three falls, can remove all the blood and water in the chicken, to ensure that the white chopped chicken does not have any fishy smell, the chicken has also completed the shape, the chicken skin is yellow and bright.
Then put the chicken in the pot and cook for 25 to 30 minutes, pinch the moment when the chicken is just cooked, immerse the cooked chicken in ice water, and after quenching with ice and fire, it has achieved the crisp skin and tender taste of Xiao Shaoxing white chopped chicken, and the entrance is like eating jelly.
In Xiao Shaoxing, there was a group of female Hercules responsible for chopping chickens. They each have a knife, this knife can be exquisite, each one pound eight two, the average person is tired to lift, they use it but they use it, the front piece of flesh and the back of the bone.
Grinding brightly before the opening of the file every day, cutting the chicken is clean and neat, a knife does not fall apart, all by a pound of eight or two weights to press the town.
The cut chicken is as thick as a finger, plated in a bridge shape with a slight curve, dotted with a few pieces of coriander, the chicken meat is snow white, the chicken skin is yellowish, the coriander is emerald green, and the "shape beauty" is also derived.
Brewed soy sauce is freshly added
Come to Xiao Shaoxing to eat chicken, everyone wants to have more soy sauce dipped in chicken, the soy sauce dipping sauce here is fresh, sweet mixed with the aroma of green onions and ginger, and the white chopped chicken dipped in spices is more prominent and more layered in the mouth.
"Allah uses all of it to brew soy sauce, a bit like the kind that goes to the soy sauce shop early to get zero copies. Dip the chicken seasoning on the table and smell the bean smell. Chef Wang Zhaofeng introduced with a smile, and nothing else was mentioned. Every day when cooking soy sauce, the kitchen should empty everyone, it is the brewed soy sauce used, if you can not eat it on the same day, it will deteriorate after placing, Xiao Shaoxing in order to ensure the health of diners, strictly control the distribution of soy sauce.
Go to Xiao Shaoxing, if you only eat white chopped chicken, you are a layman, Xiao Shaoxing has developed many related dishes on the basis of white chopped chicken, and the chefs here are proficient in the cooking of various dishes, you may wish to try it.
Grilled crucian carp with green onions
Compared with the rich and noble appearance of mandarin fish and fat head fish, small crucian carp is much more ordinary, plus there are more thorns, and only the thorn master dares to enter. The chefs use a dish of scallion grilled crucian carp to complete the transformation of the crucian carp. Grilled crucian carp with green onions is a special dish, ordinary crucian carp after soy sauce and sugar modification, the rosy color will jump in front of you, just in time to make the fish bones become exceptionally crispy.
Xiao Shaoxing uses more than 8 pairs of extra-large crucian carp, which is fried and added to the special seasoning of Xiao Shaoxing. Frying allows the fish to open up and become more brittle and saturate the broth. Eating in the mouth first of all, the fish gravy is full of water, the fish bones are permeated with a strong sauce aroma, and the salty and sweet taste with the strong umami taste of crucian carp makes people who have eaten it unforgettable.
Another protagonist of scallion grilled crucian carp is a large number of shallots, which are constantly forced into the fish, and the shallots themselves retain the thick oil and red sauce while becoming particularly crispy during cooking. A bite of fish and a bite of green onion is the recommended way to eat scallion grilled crucian carp.
Shrimp popcorn
In Xiao Shaoxing, the click rate of a shrimp pop eel has always been high, shrimp pop eel is a famous dish in Hangzhou, cooking quite a test of the chef's skill. It is cooked with fresh, fat yellow eel and shrimp. After removing the large bones in the middle, the yellow eel is removed, the head and tail are cut into sections, then marinated and sizing, and then the shrimp are smoothly fried, drizzled with the fried sweet and sour sauce and served.
After the table shrimp fried eel, yellow eel fried quite structured, support each other, even if drizzled with sauce did not become soft, pick up a slice into the mouth, the outer layer of sweet and sour crisp, the moisture of the yellow eel meat inside is completely retained, the taste is still tender, after chewing through the river fresh and light umami taste, shrimp eat in the mouth full of elasticity, can feel the fiber a little bit of broken feeling, of course, sweet and sour sauce, so that the appetite can not help but rub another piece.
Flower carved chicken
Xiao Shaoxing has a new dish, flower carved chicken. Xiao Shaoxing uses hens that are more than 60 days old and weigh 2 to 2.5 pounds to make flower carved chickens. These chickens are all breeds cultivated by Xiao Shaoxing himself, and the taste is more tender. To make this dish, marinate for four hours and then steam the whole chicken for more than an hour and a half.
Chef Wang said that the difficulty of this dish is pickling, and once pickled, this dish will be very delicious. The wine used for pickling is also very exquisite, Master Wang said that they only use semi-sweet and half-dried six-year-old Chen Xiao Shaoxing flower carving wine, which can add a faint wine aroma to the chicken and make the chicken's aroma more rich and rich.
One of the characteristics of the carved chicken is its aroma. The carved chicken finally came to the table, slowly opened the lid, and a unique aroma came to the nose, which was an aroma I had never smelled before. This aroma is a mixture of wine and chicken aromas, which makes me salivate. Finally, I couldn't wait to pick up the chopsticks, pick up a piece of chicken, and carefully put it in my mouth. Its taste did not disappoint me, and the tender feeling filled every taste bud of mine...
Master Wang also told me a new way to eat: chicken soup with noodles. It is precisely because of this way of eating that there must be soup in the carved chicken, and it must be salty. In this way, you can eat two chickens in one! I was impressed by this carved chicken, it was full of color and fragrance.
TIPS
The flower carved chicken is limited to 10 per day.
If you want to taste this delicious food, you can book by phone in advance!
Wang Zhaofeng
Executive Chef of Xiao Shaoxing
After graduating from school in the 1970s, it has been more than 40 years since I arrived in Xiao shaoxing. In the face of xiao Shaoxing's booming business now, he sighed: This is inseparable from the chefs' intentions, hard work, and seriousness. Back to the apprenticeship era, he and his colleagues set off to Nanhui at two o'clock in the afternoon every day, when the traffic was far less convenient than now, all the way to the "spring ass" in the past it took several hours, after the chicken was selected and then followed the car to deliver the chicken back to the store. At that time, there were far fewer employees than there are now, and many jobs were done from start to finish by one person, from killing chicken to cooking.
As a senior Small Shaoxing diner, his favorite way to eat is still Small Shaoxing White Chopped Chicken with Chicken Porridge, "Ala Xiao Shaoxing, the most important thing is chicken soup, chicken soup boiling porridge is really fragrant, a piece of white chopped chicken dipped in soy sauce, eat in the mouth taste heavy, drink a bite of chicken porridge clear mouth, and then a piece of chicken, really enjoy!" ”
Night Shanghai Studio
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