Explosive Chicken Taiwanese Cuisine Restaurant Introduction
This is a specialty store in Huatan Township that previously operated as a herbal shop. After the second generation took over, they creatively repurposed the traditional clay oven used for baking herbs to make clay oven chicken. The garden near the store is planted with many herbs, which are used in the clay oven chicken, including Perilla frutescens, Salvia miltiorrhiza, and Ganoderma lucidum. The clay oven chicken at Wulong Herbal Shop is referred to as "Exploding Chicken" because the anti-bacterial paper wrapped around the chicken bursts when heated in the oven. The Exploding Chicken features specially selected black-boned native chickens stuffed with Chinese herbs and rice wine, layered with 11 layers of materials such as heat-resistant plastic bags, aluminum foil, newspaper, red clay, and iron mesh. It is then placed in a cross-shaped clay oven, slow-cooked with Acacia wood and longan wood for 4 hours before completion. Unlike typical clay oven chicken, which usually has less broth, the Exploding Chicken is tender and flavorful, with the broth infused with the essence of various Chinese herbs, rice wine, and the inherent broth of the black-boned chicken, creating a rich and fragrant dish.
