Surprise dish!
Yahooo!!! As promised a post of my grandma's birthday celebration special dish. It came out later than I expected due to preparation of ICSS final, which was held yesterday and I will definitely write about it after my final exam. Okay, now to the special dish. It was a very special Chinese dish that is said to be originated from a legend story - Beggar's chicken! As per the name, the origin of this dish came from a story where a beggar. Somehow, he got his hand on a chicken and probably due to his poor circumstances, he had to be creative and decided to cook the chicken with the mud. As the chicken was cooked, a crust formed over it and thus a new way of cooking chicken appear. This is the story I heard from my grandma and aunt. The other versions of story can be found in Wikipedia. In modern days, we replicate this dish, not using mud, but mostly by wrapping the chicken with a layer of lotus leaf and...