Babaoya

It is a special dish of the owner's shop in Shanghai Chenghuang Temple. This shop was founded in the second year of Guangxu (1876) and is famous for its good cooking of Shanghai cuisine. "Babel Duck" existed as early as the Qing Dynasty. In 1887, it was re-published "Miscellaneous Notes on Shanghai Tour". Tavern records that the dish "Babao Duck" was a famous dish in Shanghai Subang Restaurant at that time. It was made of meat duck, with its skeleton removed and stuffed into stuffing and steamed. In the mid-1930s, according to a customer's suggestion, the boss shop went to Dahongyun Restaurant and bought the "Babao Duck" for research and imitation. The operation was slightly different from that of Su Gang, and it was cooked with fire power. They use light ducks without bone, and add eight kinds of auxiliary materials, such as chestnuts, gizzards and ham, and steam them in cages. After cooking, it is rich in flavor and delicious, which is very popular with customers and soon becomes famous in the city. For decades, it has been deeply loved by Chinese and foreign customers. Features: Steamed from fat duck with eight ingredients. The finished dish is ruddy in color and complete in shape, the duck meat is crisp and rotten, and the sauce is thick and delicious. Technology: Slaughter the fat and tender duck, clean it, split the back, cut off the duck's feet, take it out in a boiling water pot, wash it, drain it, and smear soy sauce on the duck. Put diced bamboo shoots, diced meat, diced ham, diced chestnuts, diced chicken gizzards, diced mushrooms, lotus seeds, dried shrimps and glutinous rice into a bowl, add Shaoxing wine, soy sauce, white sugar and monosodium glutamate, and mix into stuffing. Put it into the belly of the duck, put it back into the container, steam it in the cage for three or four hours, take it out when the duck is crisp and rotten, and turn it over and buckle it in the big plate. Heat a wok, add lard, take out the shrimps until they are smooth, leave a little oil in the wok, add bamboo shoots and mushrooms, add a little soy sauce, steam duck juice, add shrimps and cooked green beans after boiling, thicken a little wet starch, pour lard on them, and cook them on ducks.
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