There are ten kinds of best chickens to eat in China (in no particular order): steam pot chicken, salted chicken, saliva chicken, chicken coconut, Dezhou braised chicken, boiled chicken, beggar chicken, saute spicy chicken, Daokou roast chicken and Fuliji roast chicken.

1. Steamed chicken

Yunnan is not a traditional chicken-eating province. They prefer to eat mushrooms, but this steamed chicken in Yunnan is still remarkable. As one of the representative dishes in Yunnan, many foreigners will choose to try one pot when they travel to Yunnan.

2. Salted baked chicken

Salted baked chicken is a traditional food in the Hakka area of Guangdong Province, which belongs to Hakka cuisine and is also one of the signature dishes of local Hakka in Guangdong. Now it has become a famous classic dish at home and abroad. In 2115, the cooking skills of salted chicken were included in the sixth batch of municipal intangible cultural heritage list in Huizhou. Baked chicken with salt is the most distinctive cooking skill in China's major cuisines. This unique cooking technique makes it yellowish in color, rich in flavor, crispy in skin and tender in meat, and attractive in flavor.

3, saliva chicken

saliva chicken is a classic dish in Sichuan cuisine and enjoys a high reputation in the country. The saliva chicken first originated in Dazhou, Sichuan, because it makes people's appetite open and has an impulse to drool, so it is called saliva chicken (also known as pepper is heavy and easy to drool after eating). This dish of saliva chicken is rich in seasoning, which combines hemp, spicy, fresh, fragrant, tender and refreshing. It is known as "the famous Bashu is three thousand miles away, and the taste is better than the twelve States in the south of the Yangtze River".

4. chicken coconut

Coconut is Hainan's coconut, and chicken is Hainan's Wenchang chicken, but coconut chicken hot pot is not Hainan cuisine, but it was first cooked in Shenzhen, so theoretically chicken coconut should be regarded as a way to eat Cantonese cuisine. When you eat chicken coconut, what you eat is a kind of fragrant and sweet, coconut is sweet, Wenchang chicken is fragrant and soft, and two different tastes collide and merge with each other, forming a unique coconut chicken hotpot.

5. Texan braised chicken

Texan braised chicken has a long history, which began in the Ming Dynasty. By the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, it had become a famous name and even became a tribute from Shandong to the Manchu royal family. The production process of braised chicken in Dezhou is quite complicated, and the formula of spices used is also extremely complicated. At present, it is also a national intangible intangible heritage.

6, boiled chicken

The boiled chicken mentioned here is not the boiled chicken that can't play in the World Cup, but a classic dish in Cantonese cuisine. As we all know, Cantonese people have always loved to eat chickens. It is said that they eat more than 211 million chickens every year, and more than 8 million chickens every day. Although the statistics are scary, Cantonese people really love to eat chickens, and they go to the streets and alleys of any city in Guangdong to cook chicken.

7. beggar chicken

beggar chicken is a well-known chicken in China. Not many people eat it, but there are too many people until this dish. Through various costume TV dramas, this kind of chicken wrapped in mud and lotus leaves is well known to the public. The true origin of beggar chicken has not been verified, and more people tend to think that this dish originated in Jiangsu province.

8. saute spicy chicken

saute spicy chicken is the most popular chicken dish in China and one of the most representative delicacies in northwest China. The earliest origin of saute spicy chicken is said to be related to Zuo Zongtang, an important official in the late Qing Dynasty. However, it was only in the 1981s that saute spicy chicken really became popular. At that time, in Tacheng, Xinjiang, a kind of Jianghu dishes with chicken flavor was popular in restaurants on both sides of the road, which was welcomed by drivers and merchants. Since then, it has gradually stepped out of Xinjiang and spread all over the country.

9. Daokou Roast Chicken

Daokou Roast Chicken is a traditional specialty of Anyang, Henan Province, and it is also one of the traditional "four famous chickens" in China, and even has the reputation of "the first chicken in China". Daokou roast chicken was founded in Shunzhi period of Qing Dynasty, which was created by a roast chicken shop named "Yixingzhang" in Daokou Town.

11, Fuliji roast chicken

Fuliji roast chicken is also one of the "four famous chickens" in China, which is named after its origin in Fuli Town, Suzhou City, Anhui Province. Fuli Town is a world-famous chicken-eating town in ancient times. Because Fuli Town is located in Zeguo, a water town, pheasants are everywhere in this area. The local people are not polite to these pheasants, and they often bring them back to the frying pan. After a long time, many chicken-making techniques and methods have gradually formed. Of course, the most famous one is Fuli Chicken, which is now a household name.