Red-roast chicken salad with a chilli-oil vinaigrette

This dish was discovered and recommended by my mother I presented it on Mondays at Neddy’s in the 1980s, our Chinese banquet night. For $14.80you could have a seven course Chinese style dinner. It was a lucky dip—no choices. If you decided to be in it, your first experience would be a series of cold dishes. These were especially interesting— vegetables, fresh and in season, smooth ‘drunken’ chicken, slightly crunchy strips of jellyfish, duck-liver sausage, roast duck, village style boiled p