Madame So’s Wok-Roasted Chicken

Even though my mother, So Lam Mo-yin, is more interested in fundamentalist Christianity than food, she nevertheless produces a superb chicken dish that all her children unanimously vote to be superior to any other of its kind they have tasted anywhere. Whenever we go home to Hong Kong to visit her, she will cook this dish for us to satisfy our deprived taste buds. Recently, upon my request, she wrote down the procedures for me in meticulous detail, which I have rendered fro