Thursday, February 3, 2011

Lunar New Year's Eve dinner: Chicken



Another fresh new year is hear, let's stuff our bellies with wonderful food and have a good sleep before living another year! The biggest event on Chinese New Year's Eve was the dinner with family. The meal was comprised of many delicious specialty food for the occasion. The dinner had soup, fish, vegetarian dish with 12+ ingredients, a chicken, and other tasty oily dishes. Chicken was one of the star dish (is expensive in HK). This chicken along with liver, gizzard and a fatty heart was steamed and was consider big and fat. It's served with ginger and spring onion sauce. Perhaps, in America we are used to seeing huge, boneless and skinless chicken breast, however those are nowhere to be seen in the wet market here in Hong Kong. The chicken was picked before the kill, then was feathered in the morning; we cooked it later the same evening. It's chicken with real chicken flavor, and tasty bones you can suck on.

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