Yi Junzuo, who wrote a book named Small Talks on Yangzhou in Qing dynasty, once tasted the Chicken cooked with Distilled Spirit in Wangsi Restaurant. He impromptu composed a poem in praise of this dish. Song Qingling and Song Meiling sisters paid a visit to Yuanshan Mountain in October, 1947 and were deeply impressed the Oil Chicken which they used for the picnic, amazed at the fact that in this unnoticeable place there was such a delicious food. This dish is meticulously cooked with four-yellow hen (yellow feather, beak, feet and skin) as well as ingredients such as anises, cassia, turmeric. You need to pour oil brine onto it before eating it with soybean sauce.
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