Wine-Flavoured Chicken in a Clay Pot

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4 to 6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Fragrant Harbour Taste: The New Chinese Cooking of Hong Kong

By Ken Hom

Published 1989

  • About

I suspect the origins of this dish are probably in northern China. However, like many things in Hong Kong, new dishes are readily adapted, and origins and distinctions are blurred. Hong Kong chefs, have no qualms about changing any dish to suit their own taste or their patrons’ wishes. This cold chicken is extremely delicate and tasty and, as a bonus, much of it can be made in advance. It would make a great picnic dish. The rose wine, found in Chinese shops, adds a particularly attractive f