What is Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken?
Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken is a street food around the globe. It originally appears in the night market and later become famous in different countries.
History and Facts of Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken:
- It was originated found in the night market around 1979.
- A couple of called Yeh Family was trying to created chicken nuggets like KFC style, yet they created a popcorn chicken.
- Popcorn chicken needs to use many layers to created and fried.
- Taiwanese popcorn chicken is small, like bite-sized boneless chicken.
To prepare the food:
Ingredients:
- 4 Pounds of Boneless chicken tights – need to cut very small.
- 2 Eggs.
- 16 oz of sweet potato flour.
- 6 oz of fresh basil.
- 1 Clove of garlic.
- 3 tbsp of ginger.
- 3 tbsp of Taiwanese rice wine.
- 9 tbsp of soy sauce.
- 6 tbsp of oil.
- 3 tbsp of sugar.
- 3 and a half tsp of sea salt.
- 1 tsp pepper salt for fried chicken.
- 2 tsp of white pepper powder.
- 2 tsp of five-spice powder.
Historical significant:
Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken originally appeared at the Taiwanese night market. It is very small and easy to carry on and most important you can add your own favors on it. Later become popular in Taiwan and became national food. Now, you can taste this dish around worldwide at a most Taiwanese restaurants.
"RECIPE: Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken - The News Lens International Edition". 2017. The News Lens International Edition. https://international.thenewslens.com/article/61547. "Taiwanese Fried Chicken". 2020. En.Wikipedia.Org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_fried_chicken.
Interesting stuff Aaron. You could also look at the importance of sweet potato flour in this recipe and think about how it got from the Americas to Taiwan!!