Chinese-style Roast Chicken

In China, roasting foods is a technique that has traditionally been reserved for commercial bakers and grocers. Large ovens are expensive to build and to use, and are thus a rarity in the average private home, where space is in any case quite limited.

However, in the West it is a different story. Even fifty years ago, an urban home or apartment with a hob almost always had an oven. So, with their legendary flexibility and adaptability, Chinese-Americans quickly invented recipes that