Cold Drunken Chicken

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

This is an example of the creativity of Hong Kong chefs. They have taken the blandly receptive meat of the chicken and transformed it into something with rich and exotic flavours. Classically, the dish was made with rice wine but in this recipe the chefs have innovatively infused the bird with the more assertive Chinese rose wine; but orange or other flavoured liqueurs can be substituted as well. Like the Hong Kong chefs, experiment!

This dish can be made well in advance. It may be