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Thursday, December 12, 2013

Hong Kong Style Swiss Chicken Wings 瑞士汁雞翼


Hong Kong Style Swiss chicken wings 瑞士汁雞翼 is a popular dish in Hong Kong but I missed to try out this dish during my visit to Hong Kong last time. Anyway, I tried out this dish the other day, it was succulent and delicious (enjoy it while hot, when turned cooled, it tasted hard ). This dish name called  瑞士汁雞翼 not because it came from Switzerland (瑞士 in Chinese). According to here, In 1860, there’s a HK style Western restaurant called Tai Ping Koon Restaurant (太平館餐廳).  The founder invented a sweet soy type of wings.  A tourist tried it and adored it.  He asked the waiter about the name of the dish.  The waiter’s reply was “Sweet Wings…”.  Due to confusion of Chinglish, the tourist mistaken it as “Swiss Wings”.  Therefore, the funny name has since lasted until the modern days.


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I adapted this recipe from Hong Kong famous foodie 阿蘇 . And I remembered one of her braised chicken recipe, she use this type of mushroom flavoured of soy sauce, as she said this type of soy sauce able to get nice dark beautiful colour after braised. ..And don't worry it will not taste the mushroom taste..
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The challenge of this Swiss chicken wings is to get the right taste, the chicken wings must not taste overly sweet instead it has to taste with a bit of saltiness.
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Hong Kong Style Swiss chicken wings 瑞士汁雞翼

12 chicken mid-wings ( or more)

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1cup soy sauce (superior dark soy sauce)
1cup water
200g rock sugar
1 spring onion, cut 1” lengthwise
3 slices ginger
2 star anise
1tbsp Shaoxing wine
 
Method

  1. Bring water to a boil and immerse wings and let boil for 1min. Put the wings in a bath of ice water as this will make the skin tasted crunchy and not easy broken.
  2. Add all ingredients in a large pot, bring to boil over medium heat.
  3. Turn off the heat, and put the chicken wings ( skin side down) and cover the lid, and stand for 10mins.Turn the wings once and stand for another 10mins to ensure all sides are nicely coated with the sauce. (If you feel the sauce is cooling down, turn on to low heat. Turn off the heat once it has turned hot).
  4. Serve immediately once done. You may use the same stock (frozen it) and repeating making this chicken wings later.
reference: refer to this video, recipe by Sonia aka Nasi Lemak Lover

34 comments:

  1. love the name and story they look delicious

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  2. 名字的由来还蛮误打误撞的,这黑黑的鸡翼感觉就很入味,好吃到吮手指

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  3. Sonia , I love Swiss wings ! I remember few years ago when KFC had their own version :D Sweet wings lol

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  4. I never heard of this Swiss wings before but Im glad to learn from here as well on the facts about this dish. Indeed I have learned so much from you Sonia...I just never thank you enough and I have become a better cook and a baker because of you. Hugs to u.

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  5. i love these kind of wings... the skin looks stickily tempting to chew!

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  6. i love these kind of wings... the skin looks stickily tempting to chew!

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  7. Waa, very nice looking with nice story behind it, while eating these chicken wings can tell story also:D.

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  8. 一看就知道很yummy

    谢谢你帮我打开疑团,不然又HK又Swiss的,
    很乱它的出产地,嘻嘻!

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  9. Hi Sonia, what a way to cook chicken wings - delicious. Interesting video, too.

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  10. very nice wor....might try this one of these days

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  11. Interesting story! :D The wings look so dark & yummy :) Are the wings very sweet?

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  12. Oooo sounds good, next time can try when I get chicken wings.

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  13. 哈!哈!哈!我和eileen一样。终于明白了。谢谢你 sonia。

    这个鸡肉看了好好吃那样。你很厉害哦。

    照片拍得很好哦。一看就很迷人的作品。

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  14. 有好吃的鸡, 最适合我家了, bookmark下来先,近来很少下厨。。等有时间才动手!

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  15. 有好吃的鸡, 最适合我家了, bookmark下来先,近来很少下厨。。等有时间才动手!

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  16. Ohh.. Looks really yummy! Sweet wings mmmm... Never try this before, must try this out one day. Thanks for sharing

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  17. Funny phisosophy beneath the name of the dish....
    i just check my kitchen and i guess all ingredients is checked, can't wait to give it a try!

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  18. Love this easy to cook and yet delicious! Thanks for sharing.

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  19. 很诱惑的色泽!
    相信也一定很美味,这一说,肚子好像也鸣鼓作战了,呵。。。。。。。

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  20. Good morning Ms Sonia,
    Thanks for the history lesson, though I have cooked it before!
    Have a great weekend

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  21. Wow! great pic! looks amazingly YUMMMMMMY!!!

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  22. Wow, I love these "hitam manis" swiss chicken ! Mouthwatering....haha...

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  23. 鸡翼是孩子们的最还,我也把它bookmark了等有空才煮给孩子们吃。

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  24. What an interesting story! Sound like quite easy to cook :)

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  25. I've heard about this dish from my HK neighbor too and tasted it and I think it is very similar to our 'lor' chicken wings :)

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  26. hehe..sweet wings become swiss wings....funny :D would love to try out this some day

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  27. This is finger licking good, and not hard to make, I must try it when I have a chance...but, how can I finish the mushroom flavour soy sauce after that?

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  28. Ah Chi,
    Swiss wings looks hitam manis!!
    I am sure it is very delicious!
    Will try this out!
    mui

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  29. Stephane, you can just use the mushroom dark soy sauce for normal use, can't actually detect the mushroom flavour.

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  30. Hi Sonia, can I know where to get this mushroom dark soy sauce please?

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