? My friend gave me a box of Changshu specialty: beggar chicken in Wang Si restaurant. This Wang Si restaurant is a century-old shop in Changshu, which opened in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty. Beggar chicken is the specialty of this century-old shop and is listed as one of the top ten famous dishes in Changshu. Today, when people visit Changshu, mushroom oil-sprinkled noodles and beggar chicken are still the must-eat Changshu delicacies. Like mushroom oil packed in glass bottles, beggar chicken has long been packed in vacuum and sold all over the country. However, folks like us who live next door to Changshu finally get the moon first because they are close to the water, and a basket can take away a roasted beggar chicken. Just go home and heat it yourself.

? The famous beggar chicken is said to have been invented by beggars in the past. The beggar stole the chicken without a cooker, so he wrapped it in a layer of yellow mud and cooked it in the fire, but it tasted different. So the restaurant also learned the beggar's style, of course, the process is more complicated. First of all, the fat chicken should be mixed and pickled. Apply a layer of pig oil to the chicken, cover it with lotus leaves, coat it with a thick layer of yellow mud, and then slowly roast it on the fire. After roasting the beggar chicken, the yellow mud turned into a crispy shell. Open the lotus leaf bag after breaking, and the fat chicken inside is crispy and delicious.

This is the beggar chicken that was eaten in the dining hall. The beggar chicken brought home must go through the necessary heating procedure. I had this operation in the city, and it was really a big fight. I have to spread the newspaper in the corridor, knock the mud loose, peel off the layers of packaging, take out the chicken inside and heat it in the microwave oven. How does it taste? I described it as if it were in Kenchai blank, and the wood residue had no fresh smell of chicken.

Today is in Babai's hometown. I said, let's roast it on the stove now. It should taste better than the microwave oven. ?

Mr. Wang specially built a coal stove and put the big clay ball on the fire for more than half an hour. Anyway, the chicken inside is cooked, just heat it, and half an hour is enough. The mud ball was placed on the ground and slowly peeled off after being hit with the back of a knife.

The mud was peeled off and covered with layers of lotus leaves.

The lotus leaf is peeled off and there is a layer of oil paper inside.

Lotus leaf, oiled paper, and then lotus leaf, step by step, finally revealed the body of the beggar chicken.

The beggar chicken roasted on the fire is more delicious than the beggar chicken heated by microwave oven, but it is still not as crispy and fat as expected. Bite it in your mouth and feel chicken or wood residue. Tell the truth, no matter where you go, eating those so-called famous dishes seems to be just a myth circulating in the rivers and lakes. Every time you eat it, you will be disappointed. Is it really that there are too many delicious things now, or that people nowadays have no craftsman spirit and the things they make are far worse than before?