Cut the chicken into pieces and remove water (about 5 minutes in boiling water), then wash it with cold water.
Add lard, sesame oil (soybean oil can be used instead of lard, and a small amount of sesame oil can be used), Gan Song, star anise, fennel and fragrant leaves. (You can buy spiced spices for hot pot at any time in the spice shop, and some of them are sold, but in fact, there are more than these ...) Pixian douban, douchi, dried pepper, pepper, ginger and garlic (all), (small).
Guide the cleaned chicken pieces into the pot, add cooking wine, salt, crystal sugar, monosodium glutamate and chicken essence pepper (stir-fry for two or three minutes) and add water, and put them on the pot.
Do whatever you want at the bottom of the pot. Commonly used: lettuce, kelp (bean skin), etc. 1000 pieces ... put the stewed chicken in the bottom of the pot and sprinkle with chopped green onion or garlic sprouts.