Description
🚚 Fastest delivery time: 2-day delivery.
🐝 Supplier / Place of Origin: Local Farm Raised
🔖 Certification: AFCD’s Livestock Breeding License; one of the 20 licensed and regulated farms of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department
🎗 FEHD Online Restricted Food Selling Permit License Number: 0363802523
🌱 Manufacturer introduction:
🔖 Hong Kong local
🔖 No added hormones
🔖 Farm direct delivery
What is the Local Fresh Chicken Series?
Hong Kong's local fresh chickens are raised in licensed chicken farms in the New Territories (mainly located in Yuen Long, Fanling, Sheung Shui, etc.) and are strictly regulated by the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department. Due to policy restrictions following the avian influenza outbreak, the supply of local live chickens is limited, making them a valuable choice for high quality and safety. The series covers several locally bred or improved breeds, emphasizing hormone-free, growth-stimulating agent-free, natural feed, and reasonable rearing age (usually 90–120 days or more), ensuring rich chicken flavor and excellent meat quality.
🛍 Product Information :
Qingyuan chicken originated in Qingyuan, Guangdong, and is a small, high-quality local breed. The local version is raised in Hong Kong on hormone-free farms (such as Wing Ming Farm in Yuen Long), retaining the original breed's advantages:
- Smaller and more compact body size
- Golden skin, thin and crisp
- Tender and smooth meat with moderate fat content
- Rich and natural chicken flavor
- Hens often have fine, sesame-like spots on their backs
They are typically raised for a longer period (approximately 100 days or more), growing slower but with a superior flavor.
Origin and Farming: Raised on licensed chicken farms in the New Territories of Hong Kong, regulated by the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department. Natural or high-quality feed is used, without hormones or growth promoters, emphasizing natural growth. Some farms combine local environmental conditions to maintain the chickens' good activity and health.
Meat and Flavor: Crisp skin, smooth meat, soft bones, evenly distributed subcutaneous fat, and a fragrant aroma after cooking. Steaming or poaching best highlights its sweetness and tenderness; soups have a rich chicken flavor. Compared to regular yellow-feathered chicken, Qingyuan chicken has a more pronounced flavor and a more delicate texture.
Nutritional Characteristics: High in high-quality protein, moderate in healthy fats, and low in hormone risk. Suitable for everyday consumption and entertaining.
Cooking Suggestions:
Poached/Braised/Steamed: Classic cooking methods that best showcase the tenderness and flavor of the chicken.
Soy Sauce Chicken or Roasted Chicken: Highlights the crisp skin and rich, oily aroma.
Braised or Simmered in Soup: Creates a clear, sweet, and rich broth.
Also, it can be stir-fried or prepared in two ways.
Purchasing and Precautions: Prioritize products labeled "locally raised" or "Hong Kong farm," and verify the farm of origin. Freshly slaughtered chicken offers the best flavor. Due to limited local supply, the price is usually higher than that of regular chilled chicken, but the quality and safety are more guaranteed.
Local Qingyuan chicken combines the classic breed flavor with Hong Kong's strict local farming standards, making it a premium choice for those seeking authentic chicken flavor and safe ingredients.
**Meat Quality and Flavor Advantages:**
Locally raised chickens have better living space and are raised for a longer period, resulting in firm, chewy yet tender meat with a rich, natural chicken flavor and evenly distributed subcutaneous fat. Freshly slaughtered and eaten immediately or chilled, its flavor far surpasses that of chilled chicken transported long distances.
**Nutrition and Safety:**
High in high-quality protein and moderate in healthy fats, with no concerns about hormone or antibiotic residues. Regular farm testing ensures it meets Hong Kong food safety standards, making it an ideal choice for those seeking health and authentic flavor.
**Cooking Suggestions:**
- **Steaming/Poaching/Boiled Chicken:** Best highlights the sweet chicken flavor and tender texture.
- **Soy Sauce Chicken/Roasted Chicken/Fried Chicken:** Brings out crispy skin and rich, oily aroma.
- **Braising or Soup:** Rich in collagen, resulting in a flavorful broth.
- Suitable for multiple uses; even the offal can be used.
**Purchase and Precautions:** Prioritize products with farm origin or certification. Fresh, live chickens or those slaughtered on the same day offer the best flavor; for chilled local chicken, ensure the cold chain is intact. Due to limited supply, the price is usually higher than that of regular chilled chicken, but the quality and safety are more guaranteed.
The local fresh chicken series is a precious representation of Hong Kong's agricultural and culinary culture, allowing consumers to taste truly flavorful, fresh, and safe premium Hong Kong-produced chicken.
Nutritional value: TCM believes that chicken is a Chinese herbal medicine. The functions and indications are: warming the middle, replenishing qi, replenishing essence and adding marrow. Cure asthenia, fatigue, leanness, edema, frequent urination, uterine bleeding, vaginal discharge, less postpartum milk, and weakness after illness. Usage: cooking or stewing juice. From the analysis of nutritional value, every 100 grams of chicken contains 74% water, 22% protein, 2.2% protein, 13 mg calcium, 190 mg phosphorus, and 1.5 mg iron.
Cooking method:You can try delicious chicken without red onion and ginger, just use coarse salt to coat the whole body, and it will have a chicken flavor. You can also consider not using ginger. The easiest steaming method that can be used in rice cooker: After the rice is cooked in the rice cooker, wait for 10 minutes to steam the chicken: steam on the back of the upper body for 15 minutes, steam under the reverse direction for 15 minutes, then turn off the heat without opening the lid, wait 10 to 15 minutes. This approach is slippery. It depends on the size of the chicken. Pay attention to the presence of blood in the chicken spleen. Chicken soaking method (drink with chicken soup): The method is more complicated, so please consult experienced friends.
Special matters: Fresh chicken chicken is before 2 pm, please put it in the refrigerator as soon as possible after receiving the goods on the same day and keep it at 4-10 degrees. It is generally believed that those who have not yet clear the evil poison should avoid eating chicken. An article pointed out that chicken heads, chicken wings, and chicken feet can move wind, produce phlegm, and help fire. Therefore, people with hyperactive liver yang should not eat for reference. Fresh chickens from the farm will be accompanied by a complete set of offal.
🔆 Fresh Chicken Trivia
🥢 What to do if I bought fresh chicken and do not cook it on the same day🧐:
🐓 When you buy fresh chicken, please put it in the refrigerator (0-4 degrees) immediately to keep it fresh💯.
🐓 🐓 If the fresh chicken is not eaten on the same day, please store it in the ice tray (0 to -18 degrees) and freeze it; just put it in the general refrigerator or vegetable and fruit cabinet (0-4 degrees) the night before eating, You can cook the next day🧑🏻🍳🥢😋.
🐓 🐓 🐓 High-quality fresh chicken is frozen in the ice tray (0 to -18 degrees) for 15 days. It does not have much effect on the meat quality. After thawing, cooking will still have the aroma of fresh meat; but if it is placed in the ice tray (0 to -18 degrees) degrees) more than 15 days, the meat quality and flavor will be slightly inferior, but still better than the meat quality of frozen chicken that has been refrigerated for one year or more 🥰.
🎗 FEHD Online Restricted Food Selling Permit License Number: 0363802563 (prepackaged chilled and chilled poultry).
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