Chicken Feet, Dim Sum style - How to Make Authentic Restaurant-style Chicken Feet (紫金凤爪)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ธ.ค. 2017
- Dim Sum style chicken feet, a.k.a. Feng Zhua or Pheonix Claws - a dish that's definitely a bit on the complex side but more than tasty to make up for it.
We do the Dim Sum restaurant-style steaming method for these chicken feet instead of the braising method that's popular online - lengthy steaming ensures tender, fall-off-the-bone chicken while still preserving its puffy skin. There's three sauces that're most common with chicken feet - abalone sauce, black bean sauce, and zijin chili garlic sauce... while all three are popular, we felt the zijin chili garlic variety was perhaps the most 'classic' with that distinctive red-ish color, so that's the direction we went.
As always, here's the detailed written recipe over on /r/cooking:
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Outro Music: "Add And" by Broke For Free
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This channel is all about learning how to cook the same taste that you'd get in China. Our goal for each video is to give you a recipe that would at least get you close to what's made by some of our favorite restaurants here. Because of that, our recipes are no-holds-barred Chinese when it comes to style and ingredients - but feel free to ask for tips about adaptations and sourcing too! - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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Hey, so we seem to have gotten a large number of people from the Philippines watching this video :) For you Filipinos out there, any other Dim Sum (or otherwise Chinese) dishes you interested in?
Ox Tripe! :) But I am guessing almost the same procedure
Cool, thanks! Something like this, yeah? farm9.staticflickr.com/8088/8475139799_09786855c9.jpg
Salted egg chicken please
Beef noodles soup
Steamed spareribs pls
I made this for my wife today. She’s from China and was so happy to have this. She noted that it was incredibly authentic tasting, and loved it. Thank you for the great tutorial!
These two really do their research. It's pretty great.
Bro that's dedication. Walking Green Flag.
It really makes no sense why so many Americans think chicken feet are gross. We eat objectively grosser parts of other animals without question, and even if you ignore that, these just look so good!
I don't need to worry about what other cultures think about my food or culture.
I didn't know this dish require so much effort to make! It's a must-order every time I go for dim sum.
After minute 5, I was like “Y’ALL STILL COOKING THE CHICKEN FEET?!” 😂😂
My God, never imagined that dimsum chicken feet requires so many complex steps and a whole lot of ingredients. Got my highest respect
I have been a dimsum cook for almost 5 years in the ph.. one of my favorite dimsum..i cook cooked more than a million chicken feet...
So, we all suffer from quarantine and just missed dimsum chicken feet and I came across this video. Then few minutes after watching, I guess I just have to stick to just missing it. 😭
Pretty much :(
Same :(
Me too. This is more involved then I would like lol!
You said it! Jeez, i am now surprised dimsum places dont charge more for this!
I actually tried it..its alot of work and patience but its delicious..took about 2 hours lol..the worst part was getting nuked by the oil bomb in my pot..definitely cover with a lid..its scary though it sounds like the gods are going to war with the lid on
Them : " Get your boyfriend to do the .. "
Me : Yeah, where do I buy that?
Underdeveloped African countries and i think there are Philippino businessmen who will even ship it to the west
Sometimes people volunteer for that position.
At your local supermarket.
😂😂😂
Haha Lets call in the bomb squat 😅
I'm a trained chef and that's like 500 steps too many for me. They look good!
This is nothing. Chinese cuisine are finicky and complicated.... they come out good though.
@@foodparadise5792 "finicky and complicated" - No. Extremely *refined* because they've been cooking longer than most cultures on the planet. They know how to make ingredients not only taste good, but to have the best textures, the latter of which is equally as important in the cuisine as flavor it.
@@violetviolet888 'Extremely refined' LOL
@@violetviolet888 semantics.
@@violetviolet888 Refined I understand. Complicated due to the number of steps. (I take my chicken feet for stock, but I have enjoyed chicken feet at dim sum restaurants. Just not planning to go through this process myself!)
I am going to give this a try! I have tried making these before on my own by boiling until tender. You’re technique seems to infuse so much more flavor and I am excited to give it a try. It may be time consuming but it will be well worth the wait. I will do it in stages for instance make the sauce the day before. Thank you so much for sharing this technique!!!
I can safely say that I will never prepare this dish, but hopefully I might eat it in a restaurant some day
Haha yeah we figured the only people'd that end up making this dish would be a handful of people that were a bit obsessed and on a dimsum-making kick. Great dish though, give it an order if you're ever at dim sum!
Patrick Carroll are you kidding me you don't know what you are missing it's yummy I am half Chinese
IKR, Pat, That is a lot of steps. I was just on line to look up dim sum and it is lucky that I live half way between Chicago and Madison. HOWEVER, I know a small grocery store near by that sells chicken feet...do I take the challenge and make my own !?!
One of my favourites but so glad I can just have this when we go out for dim sum. I now have a profound appreciation for this dish.
@Romeo... reading compro buddy.... try again!
After 48hrs, I finally finished this recipe and damn is it good. I omitted the dried scallop and msg cuz I couldn’t find it but still amazing. Even when I was boiling the peanuts, I couldn’t wait to eat the finished product. Every step smelled so damn good. Ty for this recipe! (Also I airfried the chicken feet as I’m too tired and lazy to get shot by flying hot oil)
If they carry Accent in your stores, that's msg. Most stores have it in the aisle with the salt and spices.
First when saw the title... well i could learn to cook myself a chicken feet dimsum...
after watch the video, i think i better buy that ready to eat on nearest chinese restaurant..
Same here 😁
So delicious
@@feliciabosch5138 count me in too..there is just too many sauces to prepare..better buy it for to go ..
I love them! I eat them at my local dimsum restaurant...never knew it was this hard to cook!
Jesus 🤯 its okie ill just drive 15mins to the dim sum spot n order em instead 🤦♂️
Makes you appreciate it more once you know how troublesome the process is! I'm ordering as well haha
Got it .
ha ha it's not like anyone wants to eat chicken feet everyday, once in a while you get a craving.
Where as I myself LOVE this dish, my sister looked at me after turning a greenish tint shaking her head saying no way is she eating that. Then I reminded her she eats chicken gizzards. So she tried one, and now likes them!
It's amazing how we automatically follow our "child mind" when it comes to eating "taboo" foods others find delicious. Glad to see your sister isn't losing out to this delicacy. Next, have her try tongue, snails (even escargot style), sweetbreads, durian, tripe, bone marrow and . . . ;) Good luck. It's a BIG world out there!
@@lesliesylvan When I was around 4 or 5 years old, they sold cow tongue in the supermarket in my town - I always asked my mum to buy me a bun with some tongue in it and I LOOOOOOVED it! Havent really eaten it since... They dont sell it anymore because the demand just isnt there... Such a shame!
Also blood sausage!!! Its sooooo good!!
@@interessiertkeinen7227 Get to know a few local farmers and see if they'll save a cow or sheep tongue for you. Some don't like offal and give it to their dogs. Enjoy!
i tried it.. took me a week to complete the recipe. it was really a hassle to work on it but it was worth it!!!!!
This recipe wins the all-time internet award for absolutely zero people trying it - ever.
Thanks for all the work you guys put into these videos! I absolutely love your channel.
AWESOME I Just love Actor Richard Dreyfus and his unique great voice1
OMG you didn't know how much I was waiting for this recipe
Oliver Paguican i
there's just something about hearing the name "BIG AMERICAN CHICKEN FEET" THAT'S JUST SO HILARIOUS! XD
I've loved Chinese Chicken Feet for 40+ years, but had no idea they were so labor-intensive to make. I appreciate them so much more now.
Thanks for creating this video and sharing the recipe. Chances of me actually making this at home will be next to nil but great to learn how his incredibly tasty dish is made.
Happy holidays and I love your videos!
Haha yeah something tells me this one won't be a project most would undertake... but I think it definitely gives you a bit more respect for the dish when you're munching on it at Dim Sum :)
So you don't need to take the hard outer skin off the feet??
It's amazing the amount of work it takes to make these dishes. Thanks for showing me how my favorite foods are made.
I want to try and make them all some day.
Have you tried?
My goodness that's complicated! Thank you so much for going into detail.
Yeah it's not too bad if you're on a Dim Sum making kick and already have the chashaobao sauce on hand (and split up the frying/steaming duties with someone else), but it sorta dawned on us that it was pretty intricate when we were filming it lol
I started watching this video with squeemish curiousity and by the end all I wanted was to eat those feet! That sauce looks incredible.
Can't wait to try this, most likely after my retirement.
So I just made this today and this recipe is amazing! I would suggest leaving it for your day off because it takes a couple hours to get this done right.
Awesome, you're the first to make it! And yeah, this is totally one of those weekend project sorta recipes :)
That was such an intense cooking process, wow. I respect that Chinese cooking not only has so much time and effort in it but also that you make use of so many different parts of the animal.
Chinese cuisine is one of the oldest cuisines on the planet. When you didn't have grocery stores you made use of every part of every animal because they were your resources for food, fiber, clothing, weapons, tools, etc. They've had thousands of years to *refine* not only flavor but also techniques for the ultimate textures-which are equally as important as flavor.
This looks very authentic. Scallion oil and Mother sauce can be prepared way ahead of time and can be used for other dishes, so it's handy to have anyway. The put off for me here is the time it takes to steam, steam steam! During steaming have to keep an eye on the water as well. Arghh! Think I will give the boiled peanuts a miss. I will use mushrooms instead if I ever make this dish :-)
My kids LOVE this dish . Wowzers! I made it once before with another recipe. Thought it was crazy complex and said I would not make it again. Here I am reconsidering because it’s so yummy. But this recipe is even more complex than the last one I used!😱
Yeah haha the Dim Sum ones are intense. The basic non-negotiable aspects of this dish are deep frying and steaming for a long time. Certainly wouldn't blame anyone for going out to Dim Sum instead - just be sure to appreciate it! :)
I never knew that the preparation of this dish is so complex and time consuming, thank you for this I will give this a try.
Shoot us a picture if you do!
I love to eat this at Dim Sum restaurants 🤤 and always wondered how it is prepared. Now I know 😉... A lot of work and quite a few ingredients I can't get in Switzerland.... Plus, no-one else like it in my family, so I have to wait and eat it when I visit London 😂 🤣 .. Thanks again 🙏 🙏 🙏
wow.... really makes you appreciate how much labor goes into your $3 dimsum dish 🤔 thanks for the great video as always
There is no more complicated recipe on Earth than this!
I just made it yesterday so delicious, thank you for sharing your recipe 😋
I would totally try this. I'm adventurous when it comes to food.
Holy crap. I’ll order this in the future, so much work!!
I tried this coz my husband waned to eat it so much..i even burned my hand god, the oil jumps like hell when frying.. the funny part was that i told him to bring american style chicken feet but he brought duck feets..😂😂 anyway loved this receipe thank you guys.
Awesome! You're the first person reporting back for this recipe :) Definitely not an easy one, good job!
And yeah, the frying's quite intense. Covering's like non-negotiable.
Another commenter said that at his father's restaurant they'd leave them in a hot, dry place (e.g. next to an oven) for like a half day to dry out, which makes a lot of sense to us.
And... how could chicken feet be confused with duck feet? lol
@@ChineseCookingDemystified lol this is funny about the duck feet. Duck feet with this recipe would look like bat wings.
I've always been kinda weirded out by chicken feet, but now I really want to try it, it really changes my view on it, watching it be made is really fascinating!
I never knew you have to be a hard core Chinese chef if you really wanna make this. I just threw away the chicken feet I bought and planned a trip to China town. I’ll just buy the dish and enjoy 😁
It's kinda sad that a lot of people don't wanna try doing this simply because it appears like there's a lot if processes involved. This can be done in segments and a large batch can be prepared in advance. Just make the chashaobao sauce in advance (this has lots of uses, so it's okay to have plenty on hand). Then whenever you're feeling it, prepare and blanch some chicken feet the night before then refrigerate. The next morning, fry the feet, place in ice water and steam them. Meanwhile, make the ZiJin sauce. Once the initial steam is done, combine the feet with the sauce, then steam again. Doing all the processes at once makes it look challenging, but I don't think it's that much more difficult than making demi-glace.
Love how the Chinese name sounds like an ingredient from a fantasy novel, Feng zhua aka Phoenix claw~ Sounds much better than "Big fat American chicken feets"
I looove chicken feet. One of the most underrated dishes ever!
Man, I found myself craving dim sum chicken or duck feet and BOOM! the almighty algorithm delivers!
man... i didn't know this was a ton of work to prep. I'll make sure to take a lot of this on our next chinese buffet (after quarantine😔) to make my visit a little worthy
Wow my request, thanks for chicken feet recipe 😄😄😄 will try later and can't wait another recipe
Cheers, thanks for the request! Luckily we had a bunch of that Chashabao sauce lying around from our Chashaobao experiments, so it was pretty convenient to test :)
How delicious is that so I ate this dish while listening chopped up green chilli with soya sauce its absolutely a delicious dish
The process of making this dish reminds me of the most complex production chains in the Anno series of city-building games.
thank you for making high quality videos like this! I always try to cook my mom's recipe but I always forget the steps. If you guys can make a video on these couple of recipes, i'll appreciate it! Fuzhou style wonton soup and noodles with peanut sauce (bian rou ban mian). Eggs with tomatoes. golden brick tofu (jing zhuang dou fu) and tofu soup! Thanks!
Cheers, thanks for the requests! We wanna do some more tofu dishes, so we could totally look at the Jingzhuang Doufu... what sort of tofu soup are you thinking specifically? As for Tomato and Eggs, neither Steph nor myself (Chris) are the biggest fans of the dish so we're on the lookout for a guest cook... I know that one's super popular :)
You never responded?
love the casual msg!
It's a byproduct of fermentation, don't worry about it.
Love them I'm cooking them tomorrow and looking forward to it
Oh, my gosh! I love it. Thank you.
"Big Fat American Chicken Feet"
Y'know...I've never taken the plunge to try this dish before, but as a Chinese American from SF I feel weirdly compelled to now.
😯 😪 😫 ok i'm going to Dim Sum place. Cause, this is so complicated dish ever
Easy to follow. Just that, lots of step and time consuming.
Dim Sum is easily one of the most hardest styles of cooking. In most restaurants, they hire a specialized Dim Sum master. You need extensive knowledge and hours put into mastering these dishes similar to Sushi masters.
Just finished frying the chicken feet and made the sauce. Next step steaming and so looking forward to it! 😁
LOL "Get your bf to do the gruntwork." I actually deep fry my own chicken but cool. :D
Tracy S *Nobody cares about you and your chicken, Tracy. Don't make this about you.*
I care 😢
@@tombombadilofficial was your ego hurt or something?
Damn, imagine making this for a party of 30 guests or so....
LOL love your added humor!
Love eating dim sum chicken feet. Love the video.
we have here in manila similar recipe its easy put altogether the ingredients with the chix feet and boiled it for 30mins done!!!
its called chicken feet adobo super yummy...yours is too much work to make...but i know its yummy bec i tried that before in hongkong😊
windang zutto marasap din pag adobo.. but na try ko to while in sg 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼 sareeepp
Awesome video as always! If possible, I would really appreciate a video on how to make a proper bone soup! I know in Chinese culture, usually every meal goes with some kind of soup! I love chicken feet though! Thanks again!
Haha yeah, specifically in Guangdong that's totally true, there's a whole culture around soups. So we're planning a 'Chinese Stocks 101' video where we introduce three basic stocks that you can use, but that's not totally the same thing.
One of the issues I'm having conceptualizing a video on a soup is that it doesn't quite feel like enough content for one video. Maybe we can periodically make some soup whenever we do an easier dish, and release them at the same time?
Chinese Cooking Demystified Awesome! I appreciate you even considering it! I have very good friends, practically family from Fujian, that always cook a nice soup to go with their meal. I believe there belief is that it aids in digestion, not taking in any cold liquids with their meal; balance if you will. I feel you on the content thing, maybe put together pairings of soup with a meal? :] thanks again!
Nice! Definitely on the ‘must make’ list!
Finally i found it... Thank youuuuu for the video and the recipe
That's a crazy amount of time to cook like 8 chicken feet. I think it's more than 4 hours. Any recommendations to make a similar recipe quicker?
make 50 rather than eight.
I think you could possibly play around with a pressure cooker. Outside that there's not too much you could do because this *is* a dish that needs low and slow. The dish's a bit intense I know... feel free to double or even triple this recipe and freeze.
but more seriously, I suppose you could use a pressure-cooker to cut the steaming time.
I think yes, prepare like 4 - 5 kg of it at ones and when prepared just put freezer and when need finnish it, also when deep fried do it in fryer and more than two together. I have a question if is ok to use air fryer?
+Peter Vlčko Agree wholehearted on the first point, but I'd stay away from an air-fryer... the frying is really to puff up the skin and IIRC air-fryers basically bake the ingredients. You can totally use a deep-fryer if you got one, but do be careful if trying a bigger batch... the amount of liquid contained in the chicken feet's no joke and I don't want anyone to start a grease fire :)
Can't you bake them instead of deep fry them? Bake at very high heat and turn several times?
Carloshache So the idea here is that we wanna puff up the skin - I don't think baking could deliver the same result. The feet aren't gunna get oily from the frying or anything - the one hour soak with running water'll remove that.
You guys should open a restaurant! Crazy amount of craftsmanship here!
Oh my.. Looks so delicious. But i will buy or eat in a restaurant for this chicken feet. Oh so hard to cook.. Thank you for sharing..
You are the master, let the slave do the hard work
so many steps, only ~ 3 dollar each in a restaurant. Such a good deal.
"....and get your boyfriend to do the grunt work" LOL.
I'm filipino i used to cook this chicken feet dish before when i used to worked in chinese restuarant here philippines its so delicious i miss it so much... Great work well done.. 😊
Ive made this recipe twice. Super tasty!! Used instant pot to steam them. 30min high pressure
White guy cooking authentic Chinese food ? Much respect & support !
Haha cheers, Steph was the cook for this one though! I (Chris) generally am behind the wok for about one out of every 3-4 videos. Takes me a bit longer to do the requisite research :)
Chinese Cooking Demystified thanks & God bless! Great cooking!
Good to know that, keep up your good work.
Wow... this is complicated. Easier to buy them at dim sum for $1.50 for dish of 4. Must be an easier way to make these.
Haha I'm sure you could play around with some shortcuts :) Figured it'd be better to just communicate the recipe and then you could have a bit of a solid starting point to jump off from!
:)
Yes you have hundreds of ways. Even what you regularly eat you have not discovered hundreds of ways of cooking it. I like to boil mines and add a pinch of salt, that simple. Just wash them very well and you good to go. Perhaps with the help of science we can BBQ chicken feet but not right now.
One of my favourite Dim Sum dishes. Now that I know how it's made, I will never, ever cook this at home. But I am so glad that I know how it is done thanks to your video.
Cheers, haha. Figured that it might not be a very popular dish, replication wise... but I home you can appreciate it more now when you go out to Dim Sum :)
Absolutely. My respect for this dish has quadrupled. I made your Char Siu from scratch (minus a few harder to find ingredients) despite it being readily available where I live. But this is the first recipe that I'd rather just eat out than make at home. :) Thanks for your videos & recipes on Reddit, they're always super detailed and informative.
oh this is crazy, ill just go to dimsum haha, but thanks though for sharing, now i have so much appreciation to the people at dimsum place we go.
I thought the narration sounded like a white guy’s voice! Lol and then when I saw the boyfriend on screen I felt weirdly validated 😂
That's a pretty racist comment.
Jennifer Li he is obviously white lol
The most complicated food dish I have ever seen.
Were they making atomic bombs?
That was like off the chart! Thanks
I’m adding this to my bucket list
Wow...that's a lot of work😅 I can make a full course Sunday dinner in HALF that time lol
It's your choice but you won't be getting this taste and more chicken feet for me to eat
Too much preparation I should buy to nearest Chinese restaurant.
Just found your video on Phoenix Claws - I love eating these and made them once using another recipe. But I will definitely try your recipe soon! I really like that you guys are so detailed in your recipes! Thank you 🙏
Wow it's very very delicious and unique recipe
Jesus, why is this so complicated?? :( It's like a 2 dollar dish in the restaurant
I know, right? The more Dim Sum dishes we make, the more respect I have for Dim Sum restaurants. It's honestly insane... these dishes are all basically the same intensity as you'd expect from festival food.
It's really incredible... what other cuisine does this? Tapas dishes are tasty but simple fare... perhaps the only other thing I could think of might be Nasi Padang in Indonesia? Even then, I think Dim Sum has an edge over Nasi Padang in terms of complexity.
I still love it. Will you guys make stinky tofu one day?
Totally. I dig it, though specifically the deep-fried sort. I feel like we might have to make it from scratch though lol...
Chinese Cooking Demystified making tofu sounds fun
24 inch rims and tires got to be mounted
too much work for just a CHICKEN FEET... 😅
thank you for showing the dish.
My mouth gets watery every time I see this delicious chicken feet
Some Chinese use MSG on cooking foods if they have restaurants to make it taste better. But for themselves, they eat or in real authentic Chinese restaurants they won't use MSG. It's not healthy and not an original ingredient.
Chinese don't use MSG for themselves?? That's completely false. Msg is the shit in south east asian countries plus east asian countries
@@jungshook1849 I'm talking about authentic Chinese food. The word "authentic" look it up. I may have been born in the USA (and still live here), but I have traveled around the world. And I may not live in China, nor am I full 100% Chinese, but I come from a Chinese family. I'm ½ Chinese and grew up with my Chinese side of the family. My mother (full Chinese) was born in China (1949), her parents (my grandparents) were from China. Grandpa born in 1909 and Grandma 1927. I have family still in China. My own grandmother had her own restaurant and used MSG to make food for the customers, but for the family we never ate it for the fact it is not good for you. There are restaurants that use list on the menu that they use it, however you can ask them to simply not use it in that dish if you want.
Family I have in mainland China (Beijing) and in Hong Kong both know many places where you can get real authentic food without MSG. Many southern places in Guangdong Provence and Hong Kong serve the Chinese meal Dim Sum. The vast amount of places that serve that traditional dish do not use MSG and stick to the authentic recipes.
I also have US friends who live overseas there that teach English as well that have 2nd me on that same info. Besides, again I said "real authentic Chinese restaurants" which means the real things. And I also said "themselves" which includes not just Chinese living only in China. You are simply listing "East Asia" and I doubt that since I have a large family there that tells me different along with friend who has lived there for over 5 years.
In reality it depends on the person, it is up to the individual. But I must agree MSG is the shit... the shit that increases the chance of cancer, that's why many smart people don't eat it. And why there are restaurants that tell you they use it and let you have the option of leaving it in or taking it out. Also the reason why my grandma did the same when she owned her restaurant. Sure makes food taste good, but the food she made technically wasn't authentic since MSG isn't a true natural ingredient.
Umm....no. Hell no.
Excellent video, thank you!
Awesome. I'll never make it at home. Living in Singapore, I always order this when it's available and it's available in every littile dim sum joint. But probably not as good as the ones in this recipe. Kudos.
I use to eat this
now I traded it in for quail meet easy to harvest
plus loads of boiled eggs.
I use the chicken and quail off cuts for fish food
boil and add veg scraps to a thick paste
cut, slice or put through a spaghetti machine etc..
fish love it good protein we all had to eat this so we know too.
p.s try it on small animals like cats etc .
good recipe must be good with all meats ✌
I live in China, can't beat a bowl of steaming chicken feet unless it's duck feet. Great recipe; i just add some nice spicy fermented black bean sauce.
wow so much work! i have such an appreciation for Chinese cooking.
Thank u for this recipe .. will definitely try this one..