Hock Jiu Chicken
Some time ago I posted about this traditional Hock Jiu dish that is reserved especially for birthdays and special occassions and is also a confinement food.
Got to eat the homemade version today, courtesy of Mommy Dearest. She had bought a bottle of the Chinese red wine and wasn’t sure how to do it, so I referred her to Lillian’s blog for her recipe.
Mom cut up the chicken into little pieces which is much less appealing when if she were to cook the chicken in chunks like how we see from the hawkers stalls.
Here’s my lunch today, Hock Jiu chicken with rice. The color didn’t turn out as red as I’d like but the soup sure is thick. Mom added a little Hsiao Hsing wine for the added oomph.
Wished she didn’t put so much ginger in there but without them, the dish will be missing the “heat”, know what I mean? Lucky they were clumped together so it was easy to pick them out.
Not bad for the first try, Mom 
October 12th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Wow…..wanna attempt this same dish one Sunday at my place for dinner???
October 13th, 2008 at 12:28 am
Hehehe can oso, I’ll bring the red wine
October 16th, 2008 at 12:58 am
Today, I drove downtown in the hopes of locating the corner kopitiam at Burma Rd/Kedah Rd for the ang chiew mee suah as shared by Lilian but sad to say that the kopitiam has been closed down. I asked the shop next door and they said the kopitiam closed down end of last month and they have no idea where the stall selling the ‘ang chiew mee suah’ has moved to.
*sob sob*
Me been dying to try that dish!
Now will really have to rely on your mom’s recipe to attempt cooking it at home.
October 16th, 2008 at 6:11 am
Ha ha…too bad I only read this now. That economy rice stall in Bali-Bali just had the dish today. I tot Girlie said it wasn’t as nice as it was made out to be? But it is really that famous, I’m sure they go buka kedai somewhere else one. Got money to pick up they duwan meh? We just have to keep our eyes peeled on the food blogs to see if anyone found them heheheh
October 16th, 2008 at 8:24 am
I’ve tried the one at the economy rice stall @ Bali-Bali. Remember you took us there for dinner one day? That is different lah. That’s just the chicken. I wanna try the dish with the ‘mee suar’, just like the one Lilian cooked and blogged about.
We can use your mom’s recipe for the ‘ang chiew chicken’ and we can add our own mee suar and fungus (the black vegetable which I know you will not like but which Girlie and I will love!). Basically, what I am looking for is the EXACT dish that Lilian featured in her blog lah.