Yunnan Province Steamboat Chicken is one of the famous dishes of Yunnan, as early as 2,000 years ago in the south of Yunnan folk circulation. Jianshui produces a kind of chic earthenware steamer, called "steamer", which is specially used for steaming food. Steamboat chicken practice is a flagon chicken after washing and then cut into small pieces, and ginger, salt, green onions, fruits together into the steamer to cover, the steamer is placed in a full of water on top of the saucepan, with gauze will be blocked on the gap, so as to avoid leakage of steam, and then put on the fire to cook. When the water in the saucepan boils, the steam will gradually steam the chicken through the nozzle in the middle of the saucepan (usually takes 3 to 4 hours). Because the soup is steam condensed, chicken flavor in the process of steaming less loss, so basically maintain the original flavor of the chicken.