"Smoked tea duck" is a Sichuan banquet dishes. South Road, Chengdu, duck dish is the choice to sugar, wine, onions, ginger, cinnamon, tea, star anise and other spices prepared a dozen, with camphor wood and tea smoked from debris, hence the name "smoked tea duck." The tender crisp skin, the color red, delicious, smoked tea has a special flavor. Many Chinese and foreign customers taste, endless praise, it can be comparable with Beijing roast duck. Sichuan chefs visit to Hong Kong, many customers, after eating this dish great credit, it is "a melting color, smell, taste and shape in one of four must Sichuan dishes," caused a great sensation all walks of life, gradually spread its fame overseas, and now many of the overseas tourism in Sichuan and the international friendly people, should enjoy "smoked tea duck."
Chengdu has a professional shop called rat hole pickled Luya Zhang duck, it''s fame that a small point, forty years ago rang half Sichuan. Production of smoked tea duck store delicate Ap election, with the camphor tree leaves and jasmine tea powder produced by burning camphor tea smoked cigarette smoke, and after pickled, steamed, fried, stewed, etc. made of a variety of processes. Finished color Hongliang, skin crisp tender, delicious long, so a reputation at home and abroad. Sichuan cooks more dishes headed on this one. In 1954, Premier Zhou Sichuan chef Fan Junkang to Geneva with, once banquet dish. Chaplin, after eating, the delicious rare termed the world, but also a Premier Zhou let him go home with your family. Kongdao Sheng, Zhang Deshan, Chen Zhigang, etc. Sichuan chefs, fifties and sixties went to the Czech Republic, North Korea teaching cooking techniques, have taught smoked tea duck. After eating a lot of foreign guests, endless praise, and some point to try this dish again and again that the Sichuan Smoked Duck duck even better than in Beijing.
Smoked duck rat hole of the Business Department has been in the "Golden Tripod", "Tianfu Food Fair Gold Medal" and "成都名小吃" in the title. Duck shop owner surnamed Zhang rat hole, known as Zhang duck. But the most common surname Zhang, the huge one in Chengdu, selling hundreds of pickled Luya son, signs are numerous, difficult to distinguish between true and false. In order to show the difference between the old and the buyer before the sale locations will be added Zhang duck in front of the call as a "rat hole Zhang duck." Qing Dynasty, Chengdu has two places called rat hole. Law is a sub-Street outside the east gate of a lane, for a very narrow alley, there are feathers shop was called rat hole. The other is the Viceroy Street and the intersection of the Department of socks, one lane street, alley due to narrow and deep, there are tea houses, inn, hotel and was dubbed the rat hole. Ducks owner, rat hole called Zhang Guoliang Zhang, with his father in 1928 Admiral Street rat hole burning in front of ducks to sell. 1931 was moved across the "Koto bathroom" door open, named "Flow Xuan." The second year of his father last year, he took down the two brothers will sustain the business. In business, adherence to "not afraid of people do not buy, I''m afraid goods are not true; not afraid of no one, please, I''m afraid not fine arts," parent training, gradually worked out a set of summed up the experience, keep still.
Processing should be fine. To clean blood, tick the net hair. Under the open hole from the wing, remove the internal organs. Legs with bamboo sticks inserted eye yards taste, into the boiling pot after Cook for a billet. Into the ovens to camphor leaves and jasmine tea powder smoke smoked. Long Zheng came out into the bar, then under the frying pan to make brownish red, remove the slaughter into small pieces, transfer to a plate into a duck-shaped O''clock plate, brush with sesame oil.
Eat to pay attention. Smoked tea duck served should normally be with onion sauce dish, with lotus leaf cake with the food. Lotus leaf steamed cake is baking cookies, taste soft, light taste, color white, while the smoked tea duck taste Suxiang, gorgeous, color reddish brown, and the lotus leaf cake formation on the visual contrast sensitivity and taste, and then Zhan Shi sauce with onions, it is fried can not be made. In addition, the smoked tea duck also pay attention to hot to eat, is fried is to eat, so its flavor is more intense Zhang, if the wine cup of discretion, slowly eat it, then duck and unparalleled taste indeed had.