ShiLiuyun/Xinjiang Daily reporter Ren Jiang Yao Gang
Hired to help, Wang Zhenghai, a villager in Huangquxia Village, Jiujian Lou Township, Wusu City, and his wife Ma Jinhua are still busy every day. They opened a farm in their own yard, and the signature dish is their own "Wang's Eight Pieces of Chicken". Slaughtering chicken, plucking chicken feathers, boiling chicken, sautéing chicken... A whole set of jobs, mainly done by the couple. Someone said: "This dish must have a secret recipe, and it cannot be easily let people know." Otherwise, why do they have to do everything to be assured? ”
By July this year, Wang Zhenghai's farm has been open for 4 years, the business is booming, Urumqi City, Karamay City, Kuitun City and other places have come to taste, can sell 2,000 chickens a year. The "Wang's Eight Pieces Chicken" is an improvement on the traditional "big chicken" and doesn't look complicated: the chicken is cooked to 7 minutes, cut into large pieces, and stir-fried with various spices. However, the "Wang's Eight Pieces chicken" brought to the table has a bright color and a strong flavor to eat, and the chicken is not at all woody, the more chewed the more fragrant, and the chicken that is usually eaten is indeed different.
Cooked "Wang's Eight Pieces chicken". Photo by Jia Rongxia
If there is a secret recipe for "Wang's Eight Chickens", it is: intentions.
Ma Jinhua is the "chef" of "Wang's Eight Pieces of Chicken", and his cooking skills are very famous among neighbors and relatives and friends, and the sign of opening a farm is farmhouse taste and family cuisine. "The trick is nothing, it's real material, it's reassuring." Ma Jinhua said.
Wang Zhenghai and his wife are very picky about chickens, and they want native chickens raised by farmers, and they must be fed for half a year and grow to more than 4 kilograms. Most of his domestic chickens are home-fed, eat corn, etc., and have good meat quality. Now, they also buy some chickens from nearby villagers' homes and feed them themselves, and they can't count the days without feeding them. Even if the adult chickens purchased directly from the farmhouse, the requirements are not relaxed at all. The corn used to feed the chickens alone will cost dozens of tons a year, and Wang Zhenghai will go to a nearby village to buy corn, which is one or two tons at a time, and he will have to pay tens of thousands of yuan.
The cooking process of "eight pieces of chicken" is also one board and one eye, slaughtering chicken, plucking hair, etc., are Wang Zhenghai himself; the seasoning is the best, and the cooking is more unambiguous. "I know how many books I have written." Wang Zhenghai said.
People watch the farm's business is good, but they rarely know the hardships the couple suffers. Because everything must be done by themselves, everything can not be vague, the couple began to be busy from the morning, sending away the noon guests, sitting down to take a little breath, it is time to be busy for the evening.
Wang Zhenghai cooking "Wang's Eight Pieces of Chicken". Photo by Jia Rongxia
Opened the farm, saw more people, and thought more. Every winter, when the farmers are idle, the town and the village hold various skills training classes, and the couple is a regular customer and the most serious "primary school students". There are them in cooking training classes, there are also them in breeding training classes, learning to cook all kinds of dishes, pasta, learning to raise chickens, sheep, cattle... All in order to do a good job of "Wang's eight chickens" and open a good farm.
Many foreign tourists are full of praise for the "Wang's Eight Chickens", not only eating, but also packing and taking away, and before leaving, they will also suggest that the couple go to other places to open chain stores. "I also moved the idea of opening a chain store, and then think about it, or wait." Wang Zhenghai said that what the couple is most worried about is that the amount of free-range chickens raised by the farmer cannot keep up, and lowering the standard and shoddy will only smash the brand they have worked so hard to create. Now, Wang Zhenghai and his wife still get up early and greedy, earnestly do a good job of "Wang's eight chickens", and carefully guard the local delicacies.