food

Princess Chicken

If you can’t read Chinese, don’t despair! Click here for English.
And please excuse any of my linguistic shortcomings.

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So… which makes more sense: Expensive Airplane or Senior Concubine Chicken? My misinterpretation was a logical error, wasn’t it? Either way, little Chinese restaurant menus, you can’t fool me with your euphemistic English translation “Princess Chicken.” But whenever I hear someone say “贵妃鸡,” this is what pops into my head:

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And then this… the actual dish:
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Highly recommended, by the way. It’s yummy.

yogurt method

yogurt instructions

This is how I made yogurt in China.

Immediately after fermentation

it looks something like this:

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I strain it for 2-4 hours

to make something Greek yogurt-y. To me, the flavor of the yogurt is better with less whey. Since whey makes tasty bread and rice, straining yogurt is an obvious step, in my opinion.

Strain it for much longer and you get malleable balls of deliciousness similar to cream cheese (known as labneh).

labneh

If you feed some to the chickens

you will get yogurt chicken:

yogurt chicken