Eight bowls are actually eight dishes, eight bowls and sixteen dishes mainly made of pork. Because Confucianism and Taoism prevailed at that time, people worshipped the number "eight". At that time, the restaurant focused on serving the Eight Immortals table, with eight people at each table and eight dishes in the same big bowl. It is mainly composed of four kinds of meat and four elements. Four kinds of meat: square meat, crispy meat, elbow buttons, meatballs, etc. Take elbow meat and rear buttock meat as raw materials; Four elements: tofu (fried tofu or white tofu), kelp, vermicelli and seasonal vegetables (such as radish, cabbage and eggplant). ). Its meat dishes are cooked first, and then steamed with a unique process, according to strict procedures and working procedures. Its skills mainly focus on the selection of materials, the mastery of knife and heat, and the selection of ingredients.

Braised chicken kuai steamed bowl

trait

Chicken nuggets are crisp and tender, with fresh juice and Huang Liang color.

raw material

350g tender chicken. 75 grams of bamboo shoots, 75 grams of water-borne fungus. Onion 10g, white soup 250g, monosodium glutamate 15g, wet starch 25g, Shaoxing wine and cooked lard 35g, soy sauce 30g and sugar 10g.

manufacturing process

Soak the chicken in boiling water for 2 minutes, take it out, cool it and cut it into small pieces 5 cm long and 2 cm wide. Heat a wok with high fire, stir-fry 25g lard with onion until fragrant, then add chicken pieces, Shaoxing wine, soy sauce, white sugar and white soup, bring to a boil and turn to low heat. When the soup is sticky, take out the chicken pieces and put them face down in a steamer. Cut the fresh bamboo shoots into rolling pieces, and put them into a chicken juice pot with fungus to cook slightly. Take it out and spread it in a bowl of chicken nuggets, then pour the remaining soup into the pot, cover the chicken nuggets in the pot, add monosodium glutamate to the soup, thicken it with wet starch, pour in 10g cooked lard, and pour it evenly on the chicken nuggets.