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Chapter 118 There is a problem with Mingyueju Steam Pot Chicken
As early as the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, steam pot chicken was popular in southern Yunnan.

According to legend, it was invented by Yang Li, a chef at Fudeju in Lin'an Prefecture (now Jianshui County).

That year the emperor inspected Jian'an, and the magistrate, in order to please the emperor, issued a notice to solicit delicacies, and the selected ones were rewarded with 50 taels of silver.Yang Li’s family is poor, and his mother is seriously ill. In order to get a big reward, he combined the local methods of eating hot pot and steamed buns to create a steam pot. Regardless of the danger to his life, he climbed to the top of the swallow’s cave to collect bird’s nest and wanted to make a steamed bun. Pot chicken enlisted.Unexpectedly, the steam boiler was stolen, and Yang Li was accused of deceiving the emperor and wanted to beheaded.

Fortunately, the emperor asked the truth and saved Yang Li from death, and changed the name of Fudeju to "Yang Li Steam Pot Chicken".

Since then, steam pot chicken has become famous and has become a famous dish in central Yunnan.

At that time, the recipe of steam pot chicken was very simple, but the taste was very mellow.The predecessor of steam pot is pottery hot pot.The predecessor of Steam Pot Chicken is Yanglin Chicken.

In the early years, Yunnan poplar forest.In Jianshui and other places, the precious medicinal material Cordyceps sinensis is used to nestle chickens, which is called "Yanglin chicken", and the pottery hot pot for stewing chicken is called "Yanglin pot".

Yanglin pot is produced in Jianshui, and Jianshui pottery has a history of more than one thousand years.

In the Qing Dynasty, Pan Jinhuai, a master potter, sintered red, yellow, purple, blue and white clay into colored pottery.In [-], a potter named Xiang Fengchun inherited his ancestral craftsmanship and created a steam pot for cooking.

In this way, "Steam Pot Chicken" replaced "Yanglin Chicken".

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The practice of steam pot chicken is to use the tender hen that is just about to lay eggs or the young rooster that has just started to crow, wash it and chop it into small pieces, and put it in the steam pot together with ginger, salt, green onion, grass fruit, and bird's nest. Cover it.The steam pot is placed on a soup pot filled with water, and the gaps are blocked with gauze to avoid steam leakage, and then put on the fire to cook.After the water in the soup pot is boiled, the steam will gradually steam the chicken through the steam nozzle in the middle of the steam pot (it usually takes 3 to 4 hours).Since the soup is condensed by steam, the umami taste of the chicken is less lost during the steaming process, so the original flavor of the chicken is basically maintained.

Due to the simple shape and unique structure of the boiler, the belly is flat and round, and there is a hollow tube in the center. The steam enters the boiler along this tube, and after being cooled by the boiler cover, it turns into water and drops into the pot, becoming chicken soup.After two or three hours, the meat cake is ready to be eaten, the chicken nuggets are tender and the soup is sweet.When eating, the onion and ginger should be removed, leaving only the fishy taste, which is fresh and palatable.

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Ever since Miss Song Jiasan (Ruoxian) ran away from home and couldn't find her everywhere, the elder of the Song family (Yao Guang) announced in public that she would assume that this daughter had never been born, and made everyone in the Song family stop talking about Miss Song Jiasan (Yao Guang) In order to stop her husband (Yaoguang) from worrying about his daughter (Ruoxian) about Ruoxian, his wife (Huiyi) suggested that her husband (Yaoguang) do more research on recipes, hoping to use a variety of recipes. The novel dishes attract the customers of "Mingyueju", so Shanghai "Mingyueju" first introduced the famous dish "Steam Pot Chicken".

However, this "steam pot chicken" has only been introduced to "Mingyueju" in Shanghai for less than half a month. One day, the master of the Song family (Yaoguang) left Shanghai and set off for "Mingyueju" in Guangzhou to discuss with Master Dai. When this "steam pot chicken" was promoted as a famous dish of "Mingyueju" in Guangzhou, something went wrong.

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Location: "Mingyueju" in Shanghai

"Wow, what kind of steam pot chicken is this?"

One of the guests who was eating "steam pot chicken" in the lobby on the second floor of "Mingyue Residence" in Shanghai shouted loudly.

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The shopkeeper (Uncle Yuan) of "Mingyueju" in Shanghai heard the sound and rushed to the guest in the lobby on the second floor and asked with concern——

"Sir, may I ask what happened?"

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One of the guests in the lobby on the second floor of Shanghai "Mingyueju" is eating "steam pot chicken". Facing the shopkeeper (Uncle Yuan) of "Mingyueju" in Shanghai, he replied with a feeling of discomfort——

"Uncle Yuan (treasurer), there seems to be something wrong with your Mingyueju's steam pot chicken today."

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The shopkeeper (Uncle Yuan) of "Mingyueju" in Shanghai, with a smile on his face, asked patiently, politely and concernedly to customer A who was complaining in front of him——

"Sir, I don't know what's wrong with our "steam pot chicken"?"

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One of the guests in the lobby on the second floor of Shanghai "Mingyueju" is eating "steam pot chicken". , and replied to the shopkeeper (Uncle Yuan) of "Mingyueju" in Shanghai feeling uncomfortable physically——

"After I just finished eating, now I feel hot and itchy all over my body."

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At the same time, guest B sitting at the table next to guest A in the hall on the second floor of Shanghai "Mingyue Residence" suddenly felt equally uncomfortable, and roared——

"My God, why is my face itchy and hot?"

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"Why did this happen all of a sudden?"

Just when the shopkeeper (Uncle Yuan) of Shanghai "Mingyue Residence" felt confused and at a loss for what happened in front of him, suddenly a clerk ran down from the third floor and confronted the shopkeeper (Uncle Yuan) of "Mingyue Residence" in Shanghai. ) called out in a panic——

"Uncle Yuan (treasurer), it's terrible."

"Some customers in the box on the third floor complained that our "steam pot chicken" has a problem"

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When the shopkeeper (Uncle Yuan) of Shanghai "Mingyueju" heard the report of a clerk who ran down from the third floor, he signaled to the clerks around him to calm down the customer who had just complained, and he hurriedly accompanied the clerk who ran down from the third floor. Dude, run up to the box on the third floor in a hurry.

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Finally, after spending a long time, the shopkeeper (Uncle Yuan) of Shanghai "Mingyueju" finally comforted several customers who complained about "steam pot chicken" and solved the complaint problem. ) originally wanted to report this matter to the eldest brother of the Song family (Yaoguang), but the second master of the Song family (Yaochang) thought it was just an isolated incident, a trivial matter, and there was no need to inform the elder brother (Yaoguang), so he stopped I received a report from the shopkeeper (Uncle Yuan) of "Mingyueju" in Shanghai.

The shopkeeper (Uncle Yuan) of Shanghai's "Mingyue House" originally thought that this "turmoil" would end in this way, but the shopkeeper (Uncle Yuan) of Shanghai's "Mingyue House" never expected that the second master of the Song family (Yaochang) When the young master of the Song family (Wei Ren) went out to negotiate the bills, something happened again in "Mingyueju" in Shanghai.

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Due to a problem with the "steam pot chicken" at "Mingyueju" in Shanghai, the diners all had sensitive skin after eating it, and their faces were full of grains, and itching. Some customers had diarrhea after eating it, and some were poisoned sign.

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A week later, Shanghai's major newspapers suddenly reported the poisonous steam pot chicken incident in Shanghai's "Mingyueju", which immediately caused a storm in the city.

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