Hainan Wenchang chicken is a specialty of Wenchang City, Hainan Province, and is also one of the high-quality local chicken breeds in China. The "Guangzhou Wenchang Chicken" we are talking about here is not a chicken breed, but a Cantonese traditional cuisine.
As the saying goes, "food is in Guangzhou, taste is in Xiguan", Xiguan was once the most prosperous food center in Guangzhou, where there are hundreds of kinds of cuisine, bringing together the most traditional and classic dishes in Cantonese cuisine.
The former name of Guangzhou Restaurant is The Southwest Grand Restaurant, which is located in the northeast corner of the intersection of Xiajiu Road, Tenth Fu, Wenchang Road and Eighteen Fu in Guangzhou, facing southwest and looking down on the four directions. This is the most prosperous place in Xiguan.
After the establishment of Guangzhou Restaurant in 1935, it prides itself on being the "first restaurant in Guangzhou" and takes "honesty and no deception" as the main purpose, and hires famous chefs with heavy money to create an image of a restaurant with "famous shops, famous chefs and famous dishes", and also inherits a lot of traditional Cantonese cuisine.
Among the recipes that guangzhou restaurants have preserved that bring together dozens of Cantonese classic dishes, there is a classic of Cantonese classics, that is, "Guangzhou Wenchang Chicken", which can be said to accompany Guangzhou restaurants to witness the development of Cantonese cuisine in the past 50 or 60 years.
Guangzhou Wenchang chicken is a traditional Han chinese dish in Guangdong Province, which belongs to the Cantonese cuisine family. It is made by boiling, steaming and stir-frying Wenchang chicken from Hainan Island, accompanied by ham, chicken liver and suburban vegetables.
This dish is beautiful in shape, bright in sauce, smooth and tender in meat, very fragrant, fat but not greasy. The three ingredients have different colors and different tastes, and are one of the eight famous chickens in Guangzhou. In 2009, Guangzhou Wenchang Chicken was selected as one of the "Top Ten Famous Dishes of Cantonese Cuisine" at the First Cantonese Cuisine Summit.
According to Master Kang Zhineng, executive chef of Guangzhou Restaurant, in the 1950s, Liang Rui, a famous chef of Guangzhou Restaurant, and others went to Wenchang County, Hainan Province, to investigate, and found that the fat and thick Wenchang chicken was inconvenient to eat because of the chicken bone, so after research and improvement, it was boneless and chopped, spelled with Jinhua ham, rare liver, vegetable soft, etc., and the skin was smooth and smooth. Because the chicken comes from Wenchang County, guangzhou restaurant is located in Wenchang South Road, so it got the name "Guangzhou Wenchang chicken".
The ingenuity of this dish is that after the chicken is soaked, it has to be boneless and returned to the chicken shape, and the test is the master's handiwork, for the skilled master, from the chicken soaking to the stage, twenty or thirty minutes can be, so its value lies in this.
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【Planning】New Pastoral Network New Poultry Situation
【Co-ordinator】Lin Liguang
[Reporter] Li Jialong
【Author】 Li Jialong
【Source】 National Chicken Culture South