Fengbao Wo is a traditional classic dish of Datong, but also the hotel's signature dish, using chicks running in the clouds, drawing on Lu cuisine and Hakka cuisine salt baking techniques, through dozens of processes such as ridge splitting, feeding, cooking, etc., to create a unique flavor of Fengbao Wo skin crispy meat tender, mellow and pleasant. Salt becomes the heat conductive material of cooking, so that the chicken can be sublimated in the continuous low temperature and slow cooking, and the unique delicacy of the phoenix nest is achieved. Fans build nests, eggs are at the bottom, and the whole chicken is golden, flapping its wings and flying, resembling a phoenix nodding, and the phoenix nest is named after it.
This dish and Empress Dowager Cixi also have an anecdote, saying that 1900 is also a year of Gengzi, Lafayette rushed to the crown, made a Guinness Record that has not been broken so far, declared war with the 11 powers in one breath, on August 14, the Eight-Nation Alliance attacked the Bali Bridge in Beijing, Cixi learned the news, immediately panicked, taking advantage of the fact that the sky was not yet light, took the Guangxu Emperor, sat on the carriage, all the way to the west. On the way to escape, Cixi can be described as the wind and the sun, hungry and full, suffering from old sins, Huailai County Order Wu Yong's bowl of rice porridge and two eggs, can be regarded by Cixi as a mountain treasure and sea taste. On this day, Cixi and her party came to Datong Mansion, were solemnly greeted by officials at all levels, walked to the Taiping Building on East Street, saw the prosperity of Datong City, social stability, and sighed that the soldiers were in chaos all the way, and finally they could breathe a sigh of relief, and could not help but express their heartfelt admiration for Datong: "It is really a blessed treasure city!" "This is the origin of Datong Blessed Land Treasure City.
During the same period, Cixi was warmly received by Qi Futian, the prefect of Datong, and hosted a banquet in the most famous "Phoenix Building" in Datong Province, and used the restaurant's specialty, Fengbao Wo, to entertain Cixi. Cixi did not see the meat for many days, so hungry that she put a piece of chicken in her mouth, it was delicious and delicious, and it was very chewy, after eating, she obviously felt that the vitality was rising, and the limbs and skeletons were full of strength, so she let Li Lianying go out and ask the name of this dish. When Li Lianying heard Qi Futian report the three words "Feng Bao Wo", her face suddenly changed, "Qi Futai, you want to lose your head." Cixi is a phoenix, phoenix nest: the phoenix lying in the nest, is the irony of "Cixi does not move the nest, do not act" meaning, Qi Futian heard Li Lianying's reminder, immediately frightened out of a cold sweat, hurriedly changed the name of the dish "Golden Phoenix Lying Snow". Cixi was very happy to hear this, rewarded the chef of the restaurant, and praised the quality of Datong's meals. It is said that since then, the restaurant changed the Phoenix Nest to "Golden Phoenix Lying Snow", and as a result, no one ate it, and later changed back to the Phoenix Nest, and now this dish is also known as a must-order dish for foreign tourists to come with.