Stewed Chicken with Three Cups Sauce is a popular chicken dish in Chinese cuisine. It is come form Jiangxi province but it is become more famous in Taiwan so much so that it is said "A restaurant that cannot cook Sanbeiji is not a true Taiwanese restaurant. The origins of stewed chicken with three cups sauce is related to a hero - Tianxiang Wen: At the end of the southern song dynasty, a national hero wen tianxiang was captured. An old woman known that wen tianxiang will be killed, she brought a chicken and a pot of wine to the prison to visit him. With the help of a jailer, the old woman met wen tianxiang. The jailer took the chickens packed cut into pieces, than put three cups of rice wine in a clay pot, use small fire to cook the soups. An hour later, they bring the chicken to wen tianxiang to eat. After the jailer to return to his hometown in jiangxi province, when wen tianxiang anniversary coming, he always put the dish reaction to him. Afterwords, a chef change the three glasses of wine to a glass of sweet whose, a cup of soy sauce and a cup of lard.
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