A must-have dish when you visit Hong Kong: Crispy chicken
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Crispy chicken is one of the most essential dishes for banquets and gatherings in Hong Kong, as the dish symbolises prosperity and luck. Mastering this dish is one of the fundamentals for a Cantonese cuisine chef. The Post’s Lisa Cam visited three of the city’s top Chinese restaurants to discover the secret behind this beloved dish, which will be a highlight of many Lunar New Year banquets.
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I remember a well known British celebrity chef named Heston who went on fannying about and explaining all that scientific bovine feces how to make the "best" crispiest chicken ever and it came out none as close as this. This is perfection!
How I've missed the Cantonese-style crispy duck, too! Cantonese dishes are just one of the finest in the world. 👏👍👌👊💪😉
Taiwanese as well
Lies again? MLS Education Chinese Food
@@BCTaxation doesn't even come close
Every culinary culture has their own distinctive style but Chinese people know what they are doing
True to cantonese influence, it's a usual dish served in Malaysian Chinese wedding banquets, alot of work to prepare if done right (to make the skin thin & crispy, meat not hard but flavorful). These Hong Kong chefs are awesome!
The guy who starts speaking at 2:14 has such a perfect English accent - it baffled me
Hongkong had Brits influence and Taiwan had US influence
The side effects from a century of colonialisation
Perhaps he gained that accent from studying abroad?
@@not888f9 partially correct. Most HK people possess a Cantonese accent but people who went to British international schools or international schools in general could have a strong accent (American or British) given that the international schools are very diverse.
For instance, my geography and English teacher are from Britain while my science teacher is from Canada and so on. I get a hands on experience in an English speaking environment at a very young age, and the accent develops naturally.
@@not888f9 this phenomenon is also common in overseas returners or people who went to uni or high school in the UK. Btw British or American accent 😂 Vote!
first chef speaking cantonese, second english, and third mandarin. gotta love HK
HK is heaven for food.
LOL lady talks with mouthful and cant use chopsticks on a food show - love it
I was not expecting that dude to have such a working class English accent!
I can seriously eat a whole one of any of those three crispy chickens.😋
🤣
I watch this in the mid of night. So dangerous!
I did this crispy chicken once, and never again. I would rather just go out and buy it 🤣
Disclaimer: No chickens were hurt during the making of this video.
Yummy 😋. I love Hong Kong foods 👍
Fry then put it out, then fry again then put it out again. Then fry it again then take it out again. Then fry it yet one more time untiI it's fried !
i hope you also feature fried pigeons. Its one of the dish that is always serve here in the philippines during weddings, or birthdays or any occasion.
Saang region? Never heard of Fried Pigeons being served in Mindanao.
@@nassifguiling4922 same in Visayas or metro manila... no fried pigeon for any party occasion I've been to ..
Chicharron is way way better
@@czakhareinaOnly for Chinese lauriat/wedding receptions celebrating weddings usually serve it.
Usually served after the appetizers, like a mini taster to prepare the guests for the soup and main dishes.
It's tasty but not much meat. Surrounded by kropeck crackers.
Many dishes are served one at a time. The eaten dishes are removed before the next one is served.
Maybe 8 or so dishes? People help themselves.
You sit at round tables with people you often do not know.
During the reception, the newly Weds go around the tables and the guests have a toast with them.
If you haven't tried a Chinese lauriat, try it! Sarap!
Nah don't generalize it, it's only on chinese weddings
It’s divine
I eat this chiken from my chinese indonesian best friend birthday last december,with salt n pepper,,so yummy
There's a new chinese restaurant that opened near me the owners are from Hong Kong. The peking chicken is so yummy. They also have alot of Chinese sauces on display that they sell has well. I feel like going there now after watching this video.
what is "Peking chicken from HK" ?🤣😂
You clearly don't know your chinese food. Sweet and sour pork, lemon chicken and peking chicken is NOT chinese food.
@@MultiCklee the glance
@@JamesBond-jy8ti How are they not Chinese food- especially the Pekin roasts... They are Chinese food, lol.
@@JamesBond-jy8ti They are American Chinese food!!
Had crispy chicken some 30yrs ago...and pigeon too...
watching this at 2 in the morning was a mistake
Very yummy!
It looks incredible
I would be VERY interested to taste one using a French chicken from Bresse (poulet or poularde de Bresse) as just normally cooked in a traditional rotisserie they are already amazing . Maybe I will learn to make it myself as it is not a dish on my repertoire ....yet ! 😋
saw an episode of "The French Cooking Academy" on TH-cam that featured one of these chickens that you speak of. the chef, a Frenchman, was not impressed with that expensive bird
Wow! This makes me want to visit China. Looks delicious. I'd also love to try Chinese street food.
Hong Kong*
@@Bboi3294 Yes, but Hong Kong SAR is now a intergal & inseparably part of the People Republic of China.
@@Bboi3294 Through the best Hong Kong Crispy chicken is in Hong Kong SAR China not in Canton or Guangdong province.
It's not street food, it must be very expensive dish.
I guess it will cost at least US$ 100/ chicken.
@@Bboi3294 Hong Kong is part of China lol.
Wanna try this
My best friend, I liked the video very much, thanks you for sharing, stay safe, stay blessed
Looks amazing! 😋🤩🤪
I would eat this chicken every day!
Chinese cooking is an art, not just a meal
Cooking as a whole is a art. That being said i dont think i have seen any people use food as a symbol for lots of things like wealth or long lives etc.
The way i grew up is each dish has an étiquette when and to whome certain dishes are made but never as symbols. Its special to learn about food in diff cultures.
Mouth-watering and appealing
Looks delicious
Even if I knew how to make this at home, I would probably just end up going to a restaurant with how much labor is put in🤣
V 8y q
Sooo cooool!!!
😋😋😋 流口水
Hong Kong is one of the food capitals of the world 😋😋😋😋
No more since they become communist. Singapore is the food capital of the world
@@wavincewavince394 Yes I live in Hong Kong and many would wish the city has become communist if that means free housing for ALL.
hundreds of thousands are forced to live in cage flats, a tiny flat the size of a car park is worth a few million HKD. Being Communist would mean all assets from bourgeoisie would be confiscated and shared to all. Even Mainland China isn't doing that, let alone Hong Kong.
@@wavincewavince394 stop being silly. Vietnam is communist too. U got a problem with them? Singapore is a boring red dot. Nothing more.
@@wavincewavince394 Food and ideology is not related. Please throw out your ide of mixing it with food. It's just disgusting
I actually prefer this chicken compared to the ones drowned in breading
I love it😋😋😋
I was wondering if they gonna deep fry it before i eat it
It's likely delicious
Does SCMP have any beef dish to recommend? I love beef.
In Singapore we culled all the local famed chickens during bird flu, leaving no local species behind.
Looks very healthy
Crispy chicken fuels Hong Kong.
It's just a commercial. The host doesn't even know how to hold the chopstick and also that is a high-end restaurant that shows.
Is it like Peking duck but made with chicken?
I have not come across this chicken, but I won't be having it as a dish on my menu because it is too much work. Sorry 😔
Fried Chicken for the Gods !!!
Why did she use the chopstick like that tho
Hi, do you deliver to Hyderabad India. I will pay extra 20rs. It looks delicious.
Where is this hongkong?? Never heard of it... Until.this video popped up ..... I heard only cuisines of Korea , India , middle East.. french.. no place else
She holds the chopsticks the same way i do crisscross instead of triangle
wah ngripikkkk nih bang ayamnya
How do you call yourself a Chinese restaurant offering only 5 Crispy chickens per day? Don't ask what is the price point now-a-days. Note to the wealthy, pre-order all 5 Crispy Chickens for your next outing there for your guests.
It takes literally hours to make one, it’s either make a few at a time of high quality or take it off the menu. Then no one can eat it.
😋
I used to not think much of chickens, due to a skewed perception influenced by the factory farming BS. When I got chickens, it changed my perspective and it’s since slowly
Evolved. I know highly respect farm animals and can see why they had almost godlike status in some cultures across the globe. If you get it you get
It. They’re Nobel beasts that have climbed out of the mud to be by our side and sustain our species from when we were in the mud right by them, all the way to the stars.
Looks delicious but more like roasted chicken, not crispy. Ima from south east asian btw.
3 and 5 a day 🤣 don't worry fellow viewers, this is only for these high-class restaurants I guess. Normal folk can still get plenty at the local hawkers take-out BBQ where they have at least 20 delicious crispy ducks and chicken every lunch rush :)
Yeah but the oil used will effect the taste of the fried ingredients.
High end restaurant use clean and high grade oil suitable for the purpose.
Cheap vendors use whatever and you pray they use new, clean oils so that it is edible. Unless it is rated 5 stars but 1k of local viewers. I don't suggest you try that particular vendors.
Crispy chicken is not so common unless you go to a proper restaurant, 9 out of 10 times is in a wedding banquet
That second chef has British accent how?
Shouldn't the name of the dish be crispy skin chicken?
Is it Halal?
I think making crispy chicken is much harder than crispy duck
👍👍👍😋😋😋👏👏👏
Most best Cantonese chef are origin in HKG. HongKees love anything to do wirh birds. When HKG stormed by pandemic with SARS bird flu, not a single chicks to be found.
Wishing they had this in US Chinese restaurants. We just seem to have some poorly done Peking duck places 😮
Probs mostly because decent or excellent ingredients for chinese dishes are harder to find in the states
This dish is one of the dishes you can’t can’t make at home, you don’t want to play with all that oil
what?
If I did this at home... I would have an oil fire for sure!! Maybe if I didn't have a gas stove.
I want go, I search restaurant, I look price. I can't go. Find rich friend.
Egg Tarts
Yum yum bone splinters...there goes my tonsils
💗💗💗
It's kind of amusing how they keep the heads on.
I L!KE H0NGK0NG CR!SPY CH!CKEN!!!
😛😛😛
It's not unique. In fact, USA also has a "crispy chicken". Just that they call it a different name.
You might have heard of it. I heard that Kentucky had a famous version. They call it Kentucky FRIED CHICKEN! KFC for short. Yeah. I know Popeye's also has one.
Oh right. Maybe the people who are mesmerized with "Crispy Chicken" are living under a rock.
Has this lady ever used chop sticks before?
Wow I can just imagine how it taste
I dropped my chicken head once I saw her holding chopsticks.
They didn't ask the vinegar type
It just cooked like Beijing duck, right?
Overall Cantonese dishes is the best in the world, number 1
@Sean Giang be like Egg, my friend
Egg is healthy, luphus !!
Cantonese dish got slogan original ingredients original taste ... like chicken must be chicken taste and texture..
@Calvin Kong yea for us Cantonese dish is #1. Whenever I went to GZ, me always had Yumcha at near bridge restaurant. Locals said that's the best
@@irritatedanglosaxon1705 even I'm cantonese but I'm living in Malaysia where multi diversity taste buds buddy... we got hokkien , teowchew , hainan , guangxi , malay , thai , indonesia , India, punjap whatever taste in the world can find in Malaysia...
Why can’t you just submerge it in oil?
Peking duck
Peking goose
Peking pork
Peking chicken
Anyone tried
Peking fish???
And
Peking lamb??
Or
Perking beef??
I'm definitely won't eat these too much oil eating roasted chicken or steam chicken more healthier then these
I only want to eat the worst hongkong fried chick 🤣
Not for everyone. Not at all...
japan will retake the kurils sakhalin and vladivostok south korea will taek north korea.
What an awkward interview
This is probably my least favorite preparation of chicken in Cantonese cooking…
It genuinely just taste like any other fried chicken though?
It depends on where else you've eaten fried chicken. This crispy skin chicken is seasoned with 5 spice powder. No other fried chicken I've had uses this ingredient.
If you are referring to the typical western style fried chicken, the answer is NO.
This is not a street food, it is a classic Cantonese dish typically served as part of a 8-10 course meal in a more formal Chinese dinner banquet. It is also served as a dinner dish in many authentic cantonese restaurants in HK and Vancouver, but preordering is usually required. Sadly, this dish is not even available in many UK cantonese restaurants.
The chicken is prepared with specific traditional techniques and it's own unique seasonings, in addition, there is no batter. The chicken is cooked whole and served whole or occasionally as halve on a platter with some prawn crackers; the chicken is chopped into smaller pieces, for example, a thigh or a drumstick into 3-4 pieces and a breast into 5-6 pieces.
Appalling! Never slaughter animals.
Everybody can do it? 🤔
兔年快樂！不如像回民食兔肉？Happy rabbit year ! Why not similar to Muslim people eat rabbit ?
Bruh, not with the head on and looking at you tho, lol.
It’s traditional for Chinese cuisine to leave the head on for chicken, duck, fish, etc. Y’all westerners love meat but can’t deal with the fact that meat comes from an actual animal 💀
Mmmm sewer oil
Actually it’s nothing special! It’s just LIKE another version of that Beijing crispy duck skin! 🤷🏻♂️
6:21 she need to wear a hair net - are hk restaurants given letter grades? do they have yelp there?
Hong Kong is not China
I found it very tasteless, bland and extremely oily. Even the skin is tasteless. Often not seasoned at all, seems you get crunchy at the expense of any flavour. This is because this cooking method doesn't produce any "fond". Fond is that dark brown sticky caramelised proteins at the bottom of the pan and on meat roasted in a conventional Western oven. This sticky, salty, umami deliciousness also makes excellent gravy. Along with spices and herbs on the roast makes it truly scrumptious. I do like HK or what is called Peking roast crispy duck, though, much tastier, that's because duck has a richer red meat and the skin has lots of flavour so can take this cooking method much better without herbs and spices. Goose which is more popular these days doesn't seam to be as flavourful this style either.
Piglet getting more expensive..
Kentucky fried chicken is only the best.
Kentucky fried chicken is basic and bland
I don’t like seeing the chicken with its head still attached 😢
It's a Chinese superstitious practice. The word for chicken sounds like luck or prosperity. And for it to be abundant, it must be served whole or intact including head and feet. The same goes for fish. Always served with the head still attached. However,this is only during gatherings or celebrations. Home-cooked chicken meals are chopped up parts - no head, feet or tail.
Head and feet are delicious, stop being wasteful and eat all of Chicken part. Damm westerner not being respectful to animal, always being wasteful tsk.
do westerners think chickens just grow on trees and come without the head?
Poor chicken..
China free hong kong 🤣
Free your head please
Why is the head still on? It makes no sense whatsoever. It's not appealing
It’s the traditional way of cooking poultry in Chinese culture. Westerners love eating meat but can’t deal with the fact that it comes from an actual animal 😂