🐓 How my dad cooks the JUICIEST Whole Chicken (豉油雞)

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Watch Daddy Lau teach us how to make soy sauce chicken. It's one of the easiest crowdpleasers to make for both large parties and intimate family-style meals!
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🍴 RECIPE + INGREDIENTS🍴
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🍳 COOKWARE WE USE/LOVE 🍳
- Electric Burner: geni.us/electricburner
- Non-Stick Wok: geni.us/nonstickwok
- Carbon Steel Wok: geni.us/carbonsteelwok
- Non-Stick Pan: shrsl.com/305jb
- Carbon Steel Pan: shrsl.com/305j9
- Stainless Steel Skillet: shrsl.com/305j8
- Cookware Set: shrsl.com/305j7
- 8 Quart Pot: shrsl.com/305j6
- Cookware Collections: shrsl.com/305j5
- Pan Protector: shrsl.com/305j0
- Carbon Steel Seasoning Wax: shrsl.com/305iz
🔪 KNIVES WE USE/LOVE 🔪
- Dad's 40 year old Chinese Chef Knife: geni.us/dadschefknife, geni.us/Vtjn
- Chef Knife: shrsl.com/305is
- Santoku Knife: shrsl.com/305iu
- Starter Knife Set: shrsl.com/305iw
- Sharpening Stone Set: shrsl.com/305iy
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- Magnetic Knife Strip (storage): shrsl.com/305j3
- Cutting Board: shrsl.com/305j2
- Instant Read Thermometer #1: geni.us/bluetooththermometer
- Instant Read Thermometer #2: geni.us/wirelessthermometer
- Food Scale: geni.us/ourfoodscale
🍜 DAD'S SPECIAL INGREDIENTS 🍜
If you don't live near an Asian market, you buy these online / on Amazon:
- Sesame Oil: geni.us/bPkD
- Handcrafted Soy Sauce: bit.ly/handcrafted-soysauce
- Light Soy Sauce: geni.us/h5GrZ
- Light Soy Sauce (Handcrafted): bit.ly/premiumlightsoysauce
- Dark Soy Sauce: geni.us/VIgg0
- Dark Soy Sauce (Handcrafted): bit.ly/premiumdarksoysauce
- Rice Cooking Wine: geni.us/ZHJK
- Premium Oyster Sauce: bit.ly/gfoystersauce, geni.us/BplS8
- Chili Oil: geni.us/DX1vm
- Hoisin Sauce: geni.us/lmBz0
- Chicken Bouillon: geni.us/2Eu7CU
- Shaoxing Cooking Wine: geni.us/M93Zer
Options for Vegetarian Oyster Sauce
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- geni.us/nf17
Options for Gluten Free Oyster Sauce
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🔗 LINKS MENTIONED 🔗
MICHELIN Guide Asia: • The MICHELIN Guide Ins...
Made With Lau (White Cut Chicken recipe): • 🐓 Dad's White Cut Chic...
Woks of Life (Soy Sauce Chicken recipe): thewoksoflife.com/soy-sauce-c...
FlavCity with Bobby Parrish: • Shopping At Costco For...
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⏲ CHAPTERS ⏲
00:00 - Wash chicken
01:10 - Blanch chicken
01:39 - Do you need to cook this dish with a whole chicken?
02:29 - On soy sauce chicken
03:07 - Prepare aromatics
04:06 - Stir-fry aromatics
05:05 - Add soy sauce
06:15 - More dark soy sauce for darker skin
07:01 - On soy sauce
07:43 - Ladle sauce onto chicken
08:22 - Simmer chicken in sauce
09:02 - Large chicken vs small chicken
10:37 - How to get the flavor deeper into chicken?
11:18 - Chicken cooking summary
12:08 - Transfer chicken to ice
12:39 - Boil the sauce
13:22 - Cut chicken
15:01 - Create sauce for chicken
15:26 - Add slurry
15:48 - Ladle sauce onto chicken
16:06 - Did parents eat this in China?
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🎵 OTHER CREDITS 🎵
Produced by Randy Lau, Grace Phan
Edited by Willard Chan, Nicole Cheng
Translation by Arlene Chiu, David Loh
Intro Flute Music - Performed by Daddy Lau
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