Our countrymen especially love to eat chicken, there are many chicken practices, but no matter how tricky your taste can not resist the green car aroma, off the bone, fat skin tender meat roast chicken "temptation".
I remember when I was a kid, I had the honor of eating roast chicken on the train.
The crowded train, my mother and I looked at the luggage, my father bought back a tarpaulin wrapped roast chicken. My father tore off a large piece of chicken thighs into my hands, condensed into a jelly-like soup hanging on the top of the trembling, take a bite, crispy tender, mellow oil in the mouth lingers, the flavor, so far, can not forget.
The railroad a **** there are four kinds of roast chicken household name, respectively, Texas baked chicken, Daokou roast chicken, gou gangzi smoked chicken and Fuli set of roast chicken, known as China's "four famous chicken". （
They have a subtle **** vibration with the train and the railroad line. Passengers got an unprecedented "satisfaction" from the oily aroma of the chicken, and it followed the railroad's lead.
"China's four great chickens" and the railroad has an inseparable relationship.
Shandong Dezhou is connected to the Jinpu Railway (now the Beijing-Shanghai Railway) and Shide Railway (Shijiazhuang - Dezhou), Jinzhou, Liaoning Province, Gou Gangzi is located in the Shenshan Railway (Shenyang - Shanhaiguan), Gou Hai Railway (Gou Gangzi - Haicheng) at the intersection. Anhui Fu Li Ji is an important hub of the Beijing-Shanghai Railway, Henan Anyang Daokou connected to the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway and Daoqing Railway (Daokou - Qinghua), they are all on the railroad line of the traffic junction.
In the course of a 10-hour journey, there are few places to eat before or after the stations of Dezhou, Daokou, Gougangzi, and Fuliuji. Roast chicken is flavorful and easy to carry, and has become the most popular choice of railroad cuisine.
In Dezhou, for example, when the train into the Dezhou station, you can see many vendors with baskets and push a cart, running after the train. When the train stops, the vendors skillfully open the windows (in the earliest days, the windows of the green cars could be opened from the outside) and hold up baskets or roasted chickens for sale.
The windows were crowded with people reaching out with their tickets, afraid they wouldn't be able to grab a roast chicken.
In those days, it was a status symbol to have a roast chicken on a green car.
The same passenger will seemingly glance at you, watching you layer by layer to open the chicken oil soup wet oil paper bag. The strong smell of meat dominates the crowded car, and those who didn't buy the chicken shrugged their noses just to smell more of it.
The best way to eat roast chicken is to tear to eat, bare hands tear off a piece of chicken with oil flavor sent to the mouth to chew. At this time with a mouthful of white wine, spicy stimulation, drink a mouthful of "ha" sound. Listen carefully and you can hear the kids next door swallowing. (I can't, I'm greedy!)
01 丨Dezhou扒鸡
From the popularity of the Shandong Province, Dezhou扒鸡 is the first of the four famous chicken.
The first thing to do is to fry the chicken before brining it to the table, and the word "steak" is mainly used to describe the fire, a sophisticated Texas steak, to be simmered in a small fire for 6-8 hours to be able to do so.
The fire in place of the Texas Steak Chicken, the color of the charred yellow, gently touch the bone meat separation, even the bones are crispy, eat up not to mention how convenient. When Taitai took a picture of the chicken leg, the bone of the chicken leg was broken accidentally. (Frightened Taiwan rushed to catch with his hand, to the mouth)
Bite of steak chicken, skin fat and tender meat, oil moist full, with the tip of the tongue, the chicken was crushed, salty flavor through out, tasty to happy shake up.
The taste of pickled chicken is slightly salty, pour a mouthful of cold beer, to dilute the salty mouth, smacking his lips, the brain has not yet reacted to the hand has been toward the pickled chicken to reach out.
No wonder Mr. Lao She will "not far from a thousand miles to come" wrote "to Texas ...... Mr. Wang opened a bloody road, straight to the roasted chicken to go ...... do not eat roasted chicken, how to be a person? " （
02 丨符离集烧鸡
Anhui's Fu Li set of roast chicken is from the development of Texas steak chicken, taste and feel and Texas steak chicken is very similar.
In terms of size, the same roasted chicken, Fu Li Ji roasted chicken is a lot smaller than Daokou roasted chicken. There is no sense of roughness and minerality of the Daokou roast chicken, and there is more of a small and delicate temperament.
Fu Li Ji roasted chicken using the first fried and then brined production process. Unlike steak chicken, before frying, it is first poured with a layer of sugar, and then put into the 80 to 90 frying pan until yellowish red. Finally, it is simmered in the pot for 2-3 hours to finish.
The roasted chicken made in this way has an oily skin and tender meat, and the bones are separated with a gentle shake. Simmering time is shorter, the chicken has been soft and soft, flavorful meat rotten, rotten and even silk, do not have to worry about too heavy hand to break the bones. Fresh and mellow chicken than the steak chicken less savory, more a hint of sweetness, a bite after a bite is really can not stop.
03 丨the smoked chicken
The smoked chicken is located in Jinzhou, Liaoning province, where the history of the smoked chicken has been a hundred years since the Qing Dynasty (1899).
The biggest difference between smoked chicken and other "famous chicken" is that there is a step of "smoking" after cooking. As soon as you open the package, the rich smoky flavor comes out. Taittai smelled it carefully, in addition to the aroma of wood, there is also the odor of dead firewood. (The kind of firewood used to burn the earth stove)
Check the information to know, the ditch gang smoked chicken in the stew is completed to smoke while hot. Brush a layer of oil, put into a large pot with a grate, the bottom of the pot burns red into the sugar, cover tightly smoked, so repeated 2 times smoked chicken is completed.
After the smoked chicken, showing a beautiful date red color. Pick up a large chicken thigh, the entrance is slightly charred, the aftertaste of a light sweet flavor, the texture of the outside of the burnt inside tender, and even the meat has a smoked jujube red.
Steam on the pot for a few minutes and then tear open, the chicken skin becomes firm and elastic, the meat is delicate and slightly salty in the mouth, but through the fragrance, and the more you chew the more oil, the more you chew the more fragrant, every bite is enjoyable. （The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the best smoked chicken in the world.
04 丨DaoKou BBQ Chicken
DaoKou BBQ Chicken comes from the town of DaoKou in the county of NiYangXian, Henan Province, which is known as the hometown of the BBQ Chicken.
The Daokou Roast Chicken is still wrapped in greaseproof paper and knotted with straw rope. When you open the bag, you can smell a rich oil flavor, and the yellow skin of the chicken seems to say, "Come and eat me!" I can't help but eat it before I even take a picture of it. Authentic Daokou roast chicken to use clear oil to fry chicken, before frying the chicken to be coated with honey water, honey water ratio is also very careful, 60% water, honey 40%. The honey water will keep the chicken's skin crispy and tough, while still having a nice golden color.
The fried chicken is put into the aged broth, and 8 spices such as tangerine peel, cardamom, sand nuts, and dahurica are added, and the chicken is slowly brined on a low fire for 4 hours before it is finished.
The chicken is stewed to a beautiful reddish-yellow color, and each piece of meat absorbs the flavor of the spices to form an exotic aroma, a unique flavor that cannot be seen in other roasted chickens.
Tear off a piece of meat and take a bite, the chicken skin has no excess fat, translucent and tough, the chicken meat is firm and elastic, salty aroma mixed with the spice flavor blossomed in the mouth, Taiwan even ate a little bit of salt baked chicken flavor. （The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world.
05 丨Shangrao's Chicken Legs
Speaking of the train's Chicken Legs, I've been told by a friend of the train's that the Chicken Legs are a great way to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world, but I'm not sure if they're the best ones. Like the Four Famous Chickens, Jiangxi's Shangrao Chicken Legs is a railroad delicacy that can only be bought at Shangrao Station.
The production process of Shangrao chicken legs is extremely complex, including brining, baking, flavoring, screening and many other links, usually more than 36 hours to complete the production.
The editorial team said that every time they passed by Shangrao Station in college, they would see chicken legs on the platform, but they never dared to try. Once was really hungry, went to the platform to buy a eat, tear open a bite, instant eyes are bright. This chicken thighs are amazingly tasty (no exaggeration, is the original), fresh and flavorful chewy, salty and spicy appropriate, the more you eat the more addictive, the more you eat the more you want to eat.
After that, every time you take the train, you will pass by Shangrao, and you will set an alarm clock in advance, so that you will not accidentally fall asleep and not get the Shangrao chicken legs.
When I was a kid, every stop of the train was a chance to see a foreign country.
Nowadays, as the management of the station is more and more standardized, more and more types of convenience food, through the railroad and the famous local products, gradually disappeared in our field of vision, but those about the delicious memories will never die.
What do you like to eat on the train? What's your favorite railroad food? Tell us in the comments section!
Article | A Tuan
Photo | Zhong Heng
Part of the image source: Ying Gallery
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