Source: China News Network
China News Service Maoming October 10 Title: Guangdong Overseas Chinese Gaozhou Salt Baked Chicken: Hometown Flavor is the most unforgettable
Author Liang Sheng Liang Jingjing
Salt baked chicken is a traditional Cantonese dish with unique local characteristics in Gaozhou City, Maoming, a hometown of overseas Chinese in Guangdong Province, with its crisp yellow skin, fresh and fragrant flesh, and attractive flavor, which has long been famous in western Guangdong. The local people's love for salt-baked chicken is not only reflected in the enthusiasm for eating salt-baked chicken, but also in the way every household has a set of cooking salt-baked chicken.
Liang Yisheng, the person in charge of gaozhou Yisheng Hotel, which is famous for cooking salt-baked chicken, told reporters in a recent interview that the hotel sells more than 100 salt-baked chickens every day, and it will double on holidays. In addition to local diners, there are also out-of-town tourists who come to visit. Gaozhou villagers who travel to and from Hong Kong, Macao and Maoming all year round, in addition to feasting, also pack a few salt baked chickens to take away. To this end, the hotel has specially opened an online vacuum mailing service, customers only need to use the microwave oven to heat up after receiving the salt baked chicken, which does not affect the taste of the salt baked chicken at all. The sales volume of online salt-baked chickens ranges from hundreds to more than 1,000 per month, and orders come from home and abroad.
Officials of the Gaozhou Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said that Gaozhou has a long history of construction, so far for more than 1400 years, was once the political, economic, cultural and military center of western Guangdong, and is also a world-famous lychee and longan production base, and a large area of lychee forest longan forest is distributed throughout the city. Local people have always liked to herd chickens in these lychee longan forests, let them run freely, eating rice, insects and grasses and lychee meat longan meat that falls from trees, so that the chickens raised are not only strong and fragrant, but also the best ingredients for salt-baked chicken. Before making the salt baked chicken, drain the slaughtered chicken, marinate it with salt baked chicken ingredients, then wrap the whole chicken in sandpaper, put it into a clay pot, and then cover the chicken with blanched coarse salt, cover the chicken with a lid and bake for about 45 minutes. The salt-baked chicken skin is yellowish in color and has a strong aroma, which is endlessly evocative to eat.
The earliest famous Gaozhou salt baked chicken is said to have been founded by a young man named "Prince". At that time, the young man rented several tile houses and opened a restaurant on the side of Hongli Road in Gaozhou, mainly to serve freight drivers who came and went and ran long distances. Later, the careful "prince" found that the drivers were relatively fast to eat, and the nature of the long-distance work made them need nutrition to replenish their physical strength, so they used raw drying coarse salt to wrap the nutritious castrated chicken and bake it, in case these hurried diners could eat as they went. Over time, the drivers spread the young man's attentive hospitality everywhere, and Gaozhou's "Prince Salt Baked Chicken" has been famous ever since.
The reporter saw in the simple façade of the "Prince Salt Baked Chicken" restaurant that although decades have passed, the business of the store is hot, it is still a simple dish and the fastest serving speed. Guests enter the restaurant to order a delicious signature salt-baked chicken, a side dish made with chicken blood or chicken offal, one or two other dishes for many people, and finally a bowl of fragrant chicken fat rice, which is both a nutritious and home-cooked meal. The store serves fast, the customers eat fast, and after a while, they have to change the tablecloth, and the next round of diners is already waiting at the table. (End)