What's delicious in Siyang?

Fat chicken, one of the famous specialties in Siyang, is often used as the "first scene" for farmers' weddings, funerals and celebrations. The guest's evaluation of the chef's skill is also based on the production of fat chicken.

Fat chicken is very particular about making. It is made of lean pork paste, egg yolk, steamed bread crumbs, starch, salt, onion, ginger, pepper, monosodium glutamate and other condiments, and then spread it on a blind with a thickness of about one inch, and then spread fat pork paste, peeled sweet potato paste, egg white, scallion and starch on it with a thickness of about half an inch. When it's done, put it in a steamer. After steaming, the upper layer is as white as jade and the lower layer is as red as agate. Generally, the knife is changed into pieces first, and served with condiments such as spinach, ginger and onion. The green, red and white colors set each other off, which is very beautiful. When the fat chicken is served, the meat is delicious, neither fat nor greasy, delicate and refreshing.

According to legend, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing soldiers went south, and Shi Kefa, then the minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty, sent his troops to the north. With the Yellow River as a barrier, he built a hundred-mile defense line in Taoyuan (now Siyang), Suqian and Huaiyin, and the headquarters of Shi Kefa was located in Cui Town, Taoyuan County. One cold morning, the chef was busy killing chickens and geese. Shi Kefa wondered, "What is the chef doing in winter?" I didn't know it was for my birthday until I asked, so I couldn't help getting angry. "The enemy is just around the corner, and I don't want to go to war. What's your birthday? " Let the guards send the chickens, geese and pigs to the front to work. When he left, Shi Kefa told the chef, "Only one dish is allowed at noon." The chef pondered it over and over again, and made a delicious fat chicken with a palm-sized fat and two eggs. After the chef's improvement, the taste of fat chicken is more exquisite, forming this unique Siyang famous dish.