Pieces of jade buckle paper as thin as cicada wings, three yellow chickens mixed with marinade... Under the skillful hands of the teacher, they were folded into the shape of envelopes, staggered on the plate, and the oil was clear. This is the famous signature dish of the new Yue West Building - "paper wrapped chicken".
"Our approach is to use the oil temperature to soak the chicken, so the oil temperature should be controlled, and the temperature should be adjusted by constantly turning off the heat." Zhou Xiulan, the representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage paper-wrapped chicken making technology project and the chairman of Guangxi Xinyue Xilou Food Co., Ltd., introduced to us that this practice is called the paper-wrapped dipping cooking method, and it is also the traditional practice of paper-wrapped chicken. The aroma of the cooked paper-wrapped chicken is overflowing, and the golden chicken nuggets can be seen by gently poking them open with chopsticks, so that the unique cooking technique makes the juice of the chicken firmly locked by the jade buckle paper, retaining the freshness and sweetness of the chicken.
The practice of paper-wrapped chicken originated in the Lingnan region and has been used as a court tribute and daily main dish for at least 2,200 years, while the history of paper-wrapped chicken in Xinyue Xilou dates back to 1916. It is reported that the Yuexi Building was originally founded in Wuzhou, hired a cantonese famous chef Liang to sit in town, with paper-wrapped chicken as the signature dish of the restaurant, the restaurant has since been greatly famous, the guests are like clouds, Yuexi Building has become the premier "golden lacquer signboard" in the Lingnan catering industry, famous at home and abroad.
Before it was time for dinner, there were already many diners gathered in the store of Xinyue West Building. Ms. Xie, who came to Wuzhou from Shenzhen to play, told reporters: "Before coming, I read a lot of strategies on the Internet, and the paper-wrapped chicken in this shop is a must-eat list for netizens, and I came to punch the clock."
The inheritance of traditional craftsmanship is also accompanied by innovation. In the Yuexi Building store, there are paper-wrapped chickens and brine eggs in freshness preservation boxes and portable packs, and foreign diners can buy souvenirs after eating and take them home to give to relatives and friends. At present, taking advantage of the national strategy of building the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, The New Guangdong West Building has built a paper-wrapped chicken production base with a practical area of about 20,000 square meters in the Guangdong-Guangdong Cooperation Special Pilot Zone, featuring and based on the traditional non-heritage production technology of paper-wrapped chicken, using the internationally leading high-tech artificial intelligence production line to produce paper-wrapped chicken and paper-wrapped chicken flavored brine eggs, leading the industrialization process of paper-wrapped chicken and extending the paper-wrapped chicken industry chain.