Explosive Chicken Taiwanese Restaurant Introduction
It is a特色名店 located in Huatan Township, originally operating as a herbal store. After the second generation took over, they creatively used the traditional earthen oven, which was previously used for roasting herbs, to make their specialty dish, earthen oven chicken. The nearby garden is planted with various herbs, such as pearl grass, salty wind grass, and turkey tail mushroom, which are incorporated into the earthen oven chicken. The earthen oven chicken, known as "explosion chicken," gets its name because, during the cooking process, the heat causes the antibacterial paper wrapped around the chicken to explode. The explosion chicken is made using specially selected black-boned virgin chickens stuffed with traditional medicinal herbs and rice wine, all wrapped in 11 layers, including heat-resistant plastic bags, aluminum foil, newspapers, red clay, and iron mesh. It is then placed in a cross-shaped earthen oven and slow-cooked for 4 hours using acacia wood and longan wood. Unlike typical earthen oven chicken, which often has less soup, explosion chicken has tender and flavorful meat, with a broth that combines the essence of various herbal ingredients, rice wine, and the natural chicken broth from the black-boned chicken, resulting in a rich and aromatic flavor.
