Hanzhong Ningqiang spicy chicken
In Ningqiang, Shaanxi, there is a unique flavor of the cold plate, high-end banquet is indispensable to it; the people often see it on the table; friends must eat it when they come; give gifts and often choose it. It is the famous and well-known Ningqiang local snack WangJia spicy chicken. Wang Jia Spicy Chicken, also known as Wang Po Spicy Chicken, was registered as a trademark in 2002 under the name of the current head of the case, Wang Suyun, and the full name is "Wang Suyun Spicy Chicken", with her head on it. Wang Po is the founder of the Wang family spicy chicken. Wang Bao's real name was Li Xuanzhen, and she was a native of Gaozhai county. Because her husband's family name is Wang, she has lived in the city for a long time, the age has gradually grown, the generations are higher, some people in the family call her mother-in-law, and the children in the neighborhood of the street house begin to follow suit, and the adults are used to calling the child's name, and then crown the husband's surname in front, so they all call her the queen mother, and the spicy chicken she makes is called the queen mother spicy chicken. People who knew and people who didn't know were called like this, and over time, "The Queen Mother" became a resounding business card.
Born in 1910, Wang Po died in 1992 at the age of 82. Judging from the only remaining photo, the princess looks very rich, has good facial features, and her face is full of blessings. Her husband, Wang Rongjin, was born around 1907 and died in 1981 at the age of 74. The Wang family is a merchant family, and it is said that the ancestors also paid tribute. But the Royal family has an unwritten rule, that is, the children and grandchildren of the younger generations are only allowed to do business, not to be officials. Interestingly, Ningqiang's two famous local foods "WangJia Walnut Bun" and "WangJia Spicy Chicken" are from the same Wang family. After the marriage of the queen mother, the Wang family road has been lost, in order to make a living, the queen mother began to do her own small business to make a living, such as selling pork in bacon sauce, cold mix beef and so on, and later added chicken. When it came to the public-private partnership, the queen mother entered the public-private partnership store. In 1958, Wang Rongjin was injured in an accident in the large-scale steel smelting, resulting in half-death, and the joint venture shop advised Wang's wife to go home and make a living for herself. Therefore, the wang po and his wife seriously started their own snack business.
Ning Qiang is adjacent to Sichuan and likes spicy food in taste. The queen mother thought about making some spicy chicken to sell. At the beginning, the taste was not very good, and the queen mother was in the process of doing business, always seeking customer opinions and constantly improving. In terms of heat and seasoning, repeated practice, research and summary have finally formed a set of relatively mature spicy chicken production processes. By the 1960s, the reputation of Wang Po's spicy chicken began to spread throughout the prefecture. According to Wang Baishou (1946-), the son of the princess, when he was a child, his family was selling spicy chicken. Mother does, father sells. When night fell, my father would carry a bamboo basket with a large plate of freshly mixed spicy chicken. Carrying a horse lantern in one hand and a bamboo basket in the other, my father walked the streets and alleys, selling along the way. Also go to some taverns to sell, such as the tavern at the intersection of Ningyi Middle Road, the tavern of Shuiguanlou, and drinkers like to use spicy chicken to drink. Two chicken feet, a few pieces of chicken intestines, can be the next meal of wine. Whenever my father went out to sell spicy chicken, I would follow my father, carrying a horse lamp, listening to my father shout as he walked, watching the adults and children running out of the house to buy our spicy chicken. Some take it and eat it, and some take it home to enjoy. Especially children, who are so anxious that they grab it in their hands and eat it, so that the area around the mouth and even the cheeks are covered with red oil, the hemp lips "suddenly" jump straight up, the spicy mouth "sighs", saliva is long, still shouting "also, but also!" "When I was in middle school, I liked to do carpentry work, so I designed and made a trolley with a small drawer for money. At the top is a rectangular flat surface for placing plates, and in the upper left corner there is a place for a horse lamp (also known as a hood lamp). Mother likes it, with this small cart, you can save a lot of effort, customers do not have to bend, it looks more beautiful. With the continuous expansion of the reputation of Wang Po's spicy chicken, more and more people like it. Seven or eight families in the county also learned from the queen mother to start a spicy chicken business, which solved the problem of food and clothing for a group of people. However, The Princess has a group of old patrons, who have identified the special flavor of the Princess's spicy chicken, and no one else wants it. I heard that there was a driver who let others help buy some wang po spicy chicken, ready to take it home, after getting it, he was always uneasy, and ran back to the Wang family in the middle of the road to inquire, confirming that he bought it here before he left with confidence. There is a child who is a thief who is accustomed to eating the royal family and will never eat other people's houses again. Once, when the queen's spicy chicken was sold out, the adult bought him a little bit of another family, and coaxed him to say that it was the Wang family. But the child only took a bite, and he threw up with a "yawn" sound, saying that the adult lied to him, crying and making trouble for the queen's spicy chicken. Some people buy spicy chicken without looking at things but at people, as long as the queen mother sits there, they do not hesitate to buy it, if the queen mother's family sits there, they have doubts, inquire whether this is the royal family? After receiving a positive answer, it was decided to buy.
The queen mother had 3 children, two women and one male. The eldest daughter is married to Xi'an, and the younger daughter works in this county. After his son attended the Railway Transport School, he was assigned to work in the railway department until his retirement. As a result, both of the queen's children learned the craft of making spicy chicken. Especially the youngest daughter, Wang Jiying, after her brother went out to school, she once became her mother's right-hand man. In 1969, the Wang family welcomed a new daughter-in-law. This was the wife of Wang Baishou, the son of the princess. Coincidentally, she is also surnamed Wang, named Suyun, born in 1949, the first Chinese, and her mother's family is also Gaozhaizi. After Wang Suyun married into the Wang family, she learned to make spicy chicken with her mother-in-law. At that time, the mother-in-law was already very famous. Although the stall is placed in front of the house, Wang Suyun rarely appears in front of the stall, one is that she is shy and embarrassed to do business, and the other is that customers only recognize the living sign of the queen mother. Wang Suyun worked hard in the kitchen for many years as an adult, received oral instructions from her mother-in-law, and slowly mastered the full set of techniques for making spicy chicken. From the selection of raw materials to the killing, washing, boiling, cutting, as well as the sauce, mixing and a series of processes, all of them are exquisite. Later, because the mother-in-law was old, she had an senile cataract, and it was not very convenient to work, so Wang Suyun was alone, and then she had to go from behind the scenes to the front desk. With the development of the times and the progress of society, people's living standards are also constantly improving, and the demand for spicy chicken is gradually increasing. From buying two plots of land for one piece, to buying for half a chicken and one chicken for one. Some customers also have to watch them operate on the spot. Therefore, Wang Suyun purchased some modern equipment such as freezers, electric fans, vacuum packaging machines, etc., according to the needs of customers, selected chickens of the right size for them, and then in front of customers, hand knife down, two or three minutes to chop a chicken, and very quickly mixed the sauce, mixed, packed, handed to customers. She makes everyone who buys spicy chicken come and go satisfied. On May 11, 2007, on a Friday, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, I went to the Wangjia Spicy Chicken Shop on Qiangzhou Road in Ningqiang County for a "secret visit". In the distance, you can see the golden signboard of "Wang Family Spicy Chicken". Entering the store, the windows are clear and clean, and the men and women who buy chickens are endless. In the operation room, a tall, clean, neat middle-aged woman with sharp hands and feet is busy. Every time a chicken buyer came, she enthusiastically asked how old they were. Is it black meat skin or white meat skin? Do you eat it now or take it with you? When she took the cooked whole chicken from the freezer, put it on a vegetable mound, first cut it into two, then went to the head, went to the wings, removed the legs, and chopped a chicken three or five times, the knife technique was so skilled that it was like performing a knife show. She put the chopped chicken nuggets in a special basin, poured the sauce on it, mixed and mixed, and it was done. At this time, the customer who couldn't help it reached into the basin and grabbed a piece and put it in his mouth.
This capable hostess is Wang Suyun. When she turned around and smiled and asked me what kind of chicken I wanted, I said I wanted to "fish", not "fish". In this way, my "secret visit" became "clear inspection.".
Wang Suyun has a straightforward temperament and is not conservative about the production process of spicy chicken. Not only did he show me on the spot, but he also showed me their operation room. Which is the big pot for cooking the chicken, which is the home for drying the chicken, what seasonings are used when cooking, what sauce is poured when mixing, one by one, and let me taste and feel while talking. I "stole" this art not to do business, but to find out why the Wang family's spicy chicken is so attractive? What is the secret? Originally, the spicy chicken created by Wang Po, the selection of local roosters, cooking chicken is a pot of old soup for decades, the soup to change a seasoning package every day, the spices in the bag are cinnamon, grass fruit, sand kernels, white nuts, etc., more than ten kinds of selected high-quality medicinal materials are prepared according to proportional formulas. The chicken can only be cooked until it is seven years old, so that it is both fragrant and delicate and crispy. I deliberately ate a piece of "white meat" without juice, not only the meat is fragrant, even the bones are very flavorful, after eating the meat is reluctant to throw away the bones, always feel "abandoned pity". I think this peculiar fragrance is the reason why people are haunted by dreams, and it is the enduring charm of the Wang family's spicy chicken. The spicy taste of spicy chicken comes from the last process - mixing sauce. This juice is taken from the original soup of boiled chicken, and is made by adding pepper powder, chili oil, ginger juice and monosodium glutamate, so that the chicken is both spicy and fragrant, and it seems to wear a beautiful coat, which is shiny and golden, which is really rewarding and edible.
Wang Suyun is worthy of the new generation of case managers, she has adhered to the traditional craftsmanship, reformed the sales method, and learned to protect her own intellectual property rights. Today, her husband, eldest daughter-in-law, and youngest son are all at home to help her, and her grandchildren and granddaughters are always around her, and she has become a veritable second-generation "queen mother". People who buy spicy chicken now recognize her business card again, coupled with the increasing demand, in the past sold one or two a day, now sell dozens a day, every New Year's Holiday day to sell hundreds, the annual sales of more than 10,000. People in the prefecture buy it, and people in surrounding counties and cities drive to buy it. They don't advertise, but the people who eat it are live advertisements. Wang Suyun was happily busy. She said that her sister-in-law opened a shop in the old city and the business was booming; her youngest son loved the cause and was more skilled than she was... Between the words, pride and pride overflowed into words. It can be seen that there are people who will succeed the spicy chicken of the Wang family, and the spicy life interpreted by generation after generation of "Wang Po" will be more exciting!
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