Steamboat Chicken is Chinese food.

Yunnan Steamboat is famous for a Yunnan dish, Steamboat Chicken. Steamboat chicken was once named "Yunnan's first famous dish" by Southeast Asian countries.

Yunnan Steamboat Chicken is made of Jianshui purple pottery, one of China's "Four Famous Pottery", which was listed in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage in 2008.

Cooking Steamboat Chicken, chicken species to choose the local chicken, can not be big or small, chicken thin meat faggot, fat is tasteless, it is best to use just to lay eggs tender hen or and just open the call of the small rooster. Only Wuding castrated hen, extremely fat and flavorful, is the first choice for cooking steamer chicken material. From the end of the Ming and early Qing dynasties, Wuding castrated hen has been a tribute to the kings, according to the "new compilation of Yunnan Tongzhi": "Wuding chicken for the province's outstanding, the end of the Ming Dynasty that is well known throughout Yunnan".

Legend

Legend has it that the steamer chicken is the Qing dynasty Qianlong years Lin'an province (now Jianshui County, Ming Dynasty, called Lin'an Province, the Qing dynasty Qianlong years, renamed Jianshui) Fuderju chef Yang lee created. When Emperor Qianlong visited Lin'an, the governor sent out a notice asking for delicacies, and the selected one was rewarded with 50 taels of silver.

Yang Lek because of his mother's serious illness in order to get the reward, a combination of the local method of eating hot pot and steamed buns to Jianshui purple pottery to create a steamer, do bird's nest steamer chicken in response to the draft. Unexpectedly, the steamboat was stolen, Yang Lek was asked the crime of deceiving the king, but fortunately, the emperor asked the truth, exempted Yang Lek a death, and renamed the Fodeju "Yang Lek Steamboat Chicken", since then the steamboat chicken fame, into Dianzhong famous dishes.