Chicken with no way out - a traditional Vietnamese dish

On chilly days or cool evenings, the chicken with no escape dish is extremely suitable for you to enjoy with friends or relatives.

In Hanoi, the dish "chicken without escape" not only excites diners with its unique and strange name, but it has also become a super attractive dish in recent years. Let's find out about this special dish "chicken without escape" with iguide.ai!

Chicken with no way out, also known as chicken with sticky rice (originally called Kim Ke An Ngoc), is one of the traditional Vietnamese dishes combining chicken and sticky rice.

The crispy and delicious chicken with no way out conquers diners with its crispy sticky rice skin embracing the sweet, soft, flavorful chicken inside. The unique variation in the combination of ingredients as well as the processing method makes the dish have a new, attractive culinary flavor while still imbued with the traditional Vietnamese flavor.

Legend has it that at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, a beggar wandering the streets of Jiangsu Province risked his life to steal a chicken from a local because he was so hungry. While he was busy lighting a fire to cook the chicken, the emperor and his courtiers suddenly approached. Panicked, he quickly wrapped the chicken in lotus leaves and covered it with clay. Then, he threw the chicken into the fire. Unexpectedly, this accident created a very unique way of preparing chicken. Beggar's chicken was once included in the royal menu and became a famous dish to this day. The dish has become a culinary attraction of Hangzhou people, captivating even foreign tourists when they first taste it.

Many people mistakenly think that the chicken with no way out and the Chinese beggar's chicken are the same, however, they are different when our chicken is wrapped in sticky rice while the beggar's chicken is wrapped in mud. The chicken with no way out is better than the beggar's chicken in that it has the soft, sweet taste of the "forbidden chicken", and the crispy taste of grilled sticky rice. If you are addicted to this dish, it is not the chicken but the diner who has no way out.

This dish is named so because, as its name suggests, the chicken has no way out. After being processed and cooked, the whole chicken will be wrapped in a moderate layer of sticky rice (not too thick or too thin). Then, the chicken wrapped in sticky rice will be put into a pan of oil and fried until golden brown. The chicken dish is more elaborate than before, but still ensures the same delicious flavor as before. After cleaning, the chicken is marinated with soy sauce, star anise, clove oil, pepper, cinnamon, salt, and sugar.

After the clay bag breaks open, the fragrant aroma of chicken mixed with other ingredients spreads. Most visitors are captivated by the tender meat and delicious flavor of this dish. To enjoy this dish, you need to use scissors, knife and fork to separate the sticky rice layer from the chicken.

Traditional culinary culture is a natural cultural feature in daily life. For Vietnamese people, cuisine is not only a material culture but also a traditional spiritual culture. In the cool, slightly chilly weather of Hanoi, eating this chicken dish is extremely suitable.

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