Editor:Pot roast chicken is a traditional and well-known Lu dish with a unique flavor. This dish is soft and tender, with good color and flavor, such as shredded green onions, radish strips, and sweet noodle sauce, which is particularly flavorful. Published Mr. Liang Shiqiu's article "Roast Chicken in a Pot" for the benefit of readers.
Liang Shiqiu
The restaurants in Beiping belonged almost entirely to the Yantai Gang; the Jinan Gang arose later. Yantai Gang Zhi Mei Zhai is quite old in history. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Wei Yuankuang's "Dumen Trivia" said of Zhimeizhai ( Zhimeizhai ) , with four fish names , one fish and four , the sub-name 'Ten Thousand Fishes' and the head and tail are braised, the sauce is scorched in the middle, and the remaining or fried, or vinegar slip." "The fish for Mei Zhai is doing well, but what I admire most is something else." Pot roast chicken is one of them.
Six Nations Hotel in Beiping
Let's start with this place. The shop is located on Coal Market Street, sitting on the east side of the west, and the upper floor is quite spacious, full of scattered seats. Because of the prosperity of business, a beautiful building has been opened up at a very narrow end opposite, and the upper and lower floors are full of elegant seats. But the kitchen is still the old kitchen of ZhimeiZhai in the east of the road, and the dishes are delivered to the street by little Liba carrying a box. So this seat is very quiet.
Old kitchen
Left and right two stairs, from the left ladder to the front of the first room is my attendant often occupied one, outside the window there is an unknown tree to cover, the leaves are very large, the wind is also Xiao Xiao, no wind is also Xiao Xiao, very emotional. The first time I got drunk was in this room. After a few glasses of flower carving, I also asked for wine to eat, xianjun did not allow it, I stood on the stool and scooped up a large spoonful of soup and splashed it on the two pieces of xianjun's shirt, and then I fainted and woke up to find that I was at home. I remember this very vividly, when I was six years old.
The pot roast chicken should be roasted with small tender chicken, which is called "bucket chicken" in Beiping colloquialism, and it is suspected that it is a "boy chicken". Yan Chen recalled that there is a poem in Kyoto:
Reminiscence kyoto bucket chicken out cheap
The cheapest toothless,
Imitation jinling suddenly passed.
It's not as hot as cooking here,
Kansai Han can chew.
Zhu Yun: "Kyoto cheap bucket chicken, white color and tender taste, chew it without dregs." "He calls cheap bucket chicken, referring to raw chicken, and may also refer to smoked chicken. In the early years, you could buy four for a round of money. Nanjing's oil chicken is famous, and Guangdong's white cut chicken is also very good, and its tenderness is not under Beiping. Yan Chen seems to have a preference for Beiping bucket chicken.
Pot roast chicken
My so-called bucket chicken refers to the chicken that is half the size of the chicken, that is, the size of the chicken used to make "fried eight pieces". Soak the whole one in soy sauce and fry it in the pan until the skin is yellow and crispy. At the same time, a small bowl of brine is made of chicken offal (i.e., chicken liver chicken gizzard chicken heart) and sent out with the chicken. As a rule, this chicken is not cut with a knife, but is torn by the hand of the guy standing outside the door, torn into strips, and if there is not enough chicken to be torn out, some cucumber shreds can be placed on the plate. Bring the chicken to the table with the brine, pour the brine on it, and it becomes a refreshing appetizer.
Texas Grilled Chicken
Why it is called a pot of roast chicken, I don't quite understand. When passing through Texas on the Pingpu train, you can hear many old and young women and children shouting in their throats, "Roast chicken roast chicken!" "Travelers can buy it by reaching out the window. Earlier about a round can buy three, burned butter bright, split open to eat, salty, very delicious this kind of roast chicken is used to burn, maybe the roast chicken in the restaurant plus a pot word to show the difference.