Pork belly wrapped in chicken soup hides dried Kun, and the medicinal materials used in each shop are different, and the taste and efficacy will be different. But in general, pepper and pepper root are indispensable among them. Wei Zhen's Wuhua Chicken uses pepper, and Fu You Restaurant uses original pepper. Pepper has the effect of warming stomach and dispelling cold, and can be used to treat cold stomach vomiting, cold diarrhea and abdominal pain, especially for people who eat cold food or have a cold in winter. Pepper root has the effects of invigorating stomach, expelling cold and treating rheumatic joint pain. There are many other medicinal materials in the soup, and the specific formula varies from shop to shop. With so many ingredients and a pig's belly and a chicken, the soup is naturally delicious. And different shops recommend different ways to drink soup.
Wei Zhen Wuhua Chicken is made of Lycium barbarum, Polygonatum odoratum, red dates, dried tangerine peel, carrots, etc. It is said that the way to drink soup here is to fish out the pork belly wrapped chicken, cut it into small pieces, and then put it back to cook for 5 to 10 minutes before starting to drink soup. It is said that this is to make the meat taste more uniform and the soup taste more fragrant.
There are carrots, codonopsis pilosula, red dates, Chinese yam, Beiqi, medlar and so on in the soup of Youfuqi restaurant. The chef said that this soup needs to be drunk before it has its original flavor. After drinking the soup, put the chopped pork belly wrapped chicken in it and cook for about 3 minutes. At this time, drinking soup again will not only have a spicy Chili flavor, but also taste the unique fragrance of medicinal materials and meat.