Taiwan, Yilan. Sugarcane Roasted Chicken

[klyeoh (Peter)]

@Google_Gourmet

Day trip to Yilan county. Roast Chicken is very special here. . Free range birds slow roasted in massive kilns, smokey with the terroir of sugarcane from nearby fields.

That looked amazing!

We have something along the same lines here in Penang, but it’s Hakka-style and its chicken didn’t have the beautiful golden-brown, crackling skin that your Yilan chicken has:

[Penang] Baked chicken at Half Acre Restaurant, Balik Pulau

Balik Pulau is a small, mainly Hakka-populated town on the other side of the island of Penang. Its name - “Balik Pulau” - literally means that in Malay, i.e. “Other Side of the Island”. Balik Pulau is also home to Burmese and Siamese Christian communities who descended from refugees that settled here after escaping religious persecution in their home countries back in the 19th-century. Food-wise, Balik Pulau is known for churning out the best versions of Penang’s “asam laksa”, a sourish rice no…