many years ago, I worked in a dim sum restaurent in Hong Kong... we used very big wok with hot oil.. after chicken feet cleaned, b cut the nails, the add dark soy source... then put them in hot oil fry ( by this way, bones seperated from skin.. chicken feet skin darken ) , then after fried a shoort time & took them out & clean... then steam in a pot with some water, ginger, green onion, 8 points, cooking wine etc etc ) steam about 20 minutes ? let them cool down... cut small pieces, put in other sources , like salt, peper, soy source, dark soy souce, black bean source, garlic, ginger, corn starch, sesame oil .. mix the put it on top of chicken feet about 10 minutes... ready to serve....de miami, fl