Wenming Road is one of the most cultural streets in Guangzhou, and it is known to consumers for sweets and sugary desserts. But many people don't know that in the civilized road famous for sugar water, there is a Zhou Sheng Ji TaiYe Chicken, which is really sold for a hundred years.
Taiye chicken is a well-known Guangdong and Hong Kong characteristics of the traditional dish, belongs to the Cantonese cuisine, also known as "tea fragrant chicken", color jujube red, smooth and oily, skin fragrant meat tender, fragrant tea flavor, after eating the mouth has afterglow, evocative.
Although Taiye Chicken is very "low-key" and does not rank among the "Top Ten Famous Chickens in Guangzhou", it has an unshakable position in the hearts of diners. The 106-year-old Taiye chicken combines the smoking techniques of Su cuisine with the brine of Cantonese cuisine, the red skin of dates and the snow-white meat, which is endlessly evocative.
Although the starting point of Taiye Chicken is not as good as that of large-scale large hotels and restaurants, they sell chickens that are much more expensive than other famous chickens in Guangzhou. According to the information reflected by netizens, Zhou Shengji's one-pound signature Taiye chicken chopping takeaway is 66.8 yuan!
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It is understood that the "Taiye Chicken" was created by Zhou Guisheng, who served as Zhi County of Xinhui County, Guangdong Province at the end of the Qing Dynasty. In 1911, the Xinhai Revolution overthrew the Qing Dynasty and ended his career as an official, he moved his family to settle in Bailing Road, Guangzhou, and then because of the difficulties of life, he set up a stall on the street and specialized in cooked meat products.
With the experience of eating wu yue famous dishes when he was an official, he cleverly combined the smoke method of Jiangsu and the length of the halogen method of Guangdong, and made a chicken dish with both Jiangsu characteristics and Guangdong flavor, which was called Guangdong Yi chicken at that time, and later people knew that the chicken maker was originally a county taiye, so it was called "taiye chicken" throughout Yangcheng.
However, during the Cultural Revolution, taiye chickens interrupted supply to avoid suspicion. In 1981, Gao Deliang, the great-grandson of Zhou Guishan, opened the "Zhou Sheng Ji" food stall to inherit the ancestral business, and the traditional famous dish "Taiye Chicken" was re-introduced.
Now Zhou Shengji, an average of 100 taiye chickens sold every day, all of which are sold immediately, sold out and then done, and sold out on the same day. From 1980 to the present, Zhou Shengji Taiye Chicken of Wenming Road has been open for 38 consecutive years, and has been deeply loved by neighbors, and many people have rushed from Hong Kong and Macao to taste Taiye Chicken.
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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