Name: Anise Chicken (Hongshao Bajiao Ji)
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: soy sauce; cooking sherry wine; dried red peppers; water; whole star anise; dried black mushrooms; tree ears; fresh ginger; soaking water; sesame oil; chicken; chinese rice wine; mushrooms; scallions; chicken; scallions; granulated sugar; boiling water; salt; breasts; dried tree ears; ginger; scallions; peanut oil

Dinner: Menu — Flavor: Anise — Meal: Easy, Made in Advance

“When I was young our house was always full of people,” remembers Mrs. Chiang. “Our friends would come to play and stay for supper, and all the cousins who lived in my father’s parents’ big house across the fields treated our house as their second home. When older relatives showed up for dinner, it would be a formal occasion. We kept the family scrolls and our wooden tablets inscribed with the names of ances