🐓 How my dad cooks the JUICIEST Whole Chicken (豉油雞)

Watch Daddy Lau teach us how to make soy sauce chicken. It's one of the easiest crowdpleasers to make for both large parties and intimate family-style meals! 🍴 WRITTEN RECIPE + INGREDIENTS🍴 Visit our blog for step-by-step instructions: https://madewithlau.com/recipes/soy-sauce-chicken 🍜 JOIN THE CANTO COOKING CLUB 🍜 Develop the intuition and foundation to cook Cantonese food with exclusive classes from Daddy Lau! Take a free peek inside: https://bit.ly/mwlclub 🍳 COOKWARE WE USE/LOVE 🍳 - Chinese Cleaver: https://amzn.to/4eMSoL9 - Carbon Steel Wok: https://amzn.to/3BH16fq - Stainless Steel Spatula: https://amzn.to/4fomqVZ - Non-Stick Wok: https://amzn.to/47Q8fGk - Non-Stick Spatula: https://amzn.to/489rWsY - Gas Burner: https://amzn.to/3XYAQVI - Electric Burner: https://amzn.to/4eLoXZO - Steaming rack: https://amzn.to/4eKewpQ - Steaming rack with holes: https://amzn.to/408qPYu 🥢 KITCHEN ACCESSORIES WE USE/LOVE 🥢 - Infrared Laser Temperature Gun: https://amzn.to/3ZRioAK - Wireless Meat Thermometer: https://amzn.to/3BE6iRg - Food Scale: https://amzn.to/47QRIC6 👨‍🍳 DAD'S SPECIAL INGREDIENTS 👨‍🍳 - Light Soy Sauce: https://amzn.to/3NcsQva - Dark Soy Sauce: https://amzn.to/3Y6uyV8 - Chicken Bouillon: https://amzn.to/3ZQWn4V - Sesame Oil: https://amzn.to/3XJGef6 - Rice Cooking Wine: https://amzn.to/4gJG405 - Shaoxing Cooking Wine: https://amzn.to/3TWiBib - Premium Oyster Sauce: https://amzn.to/4drBPTS - Chili Oil: https://amzn.to/3Y7w1uo - Hoisin Sauce: https://amzn.to/3Y9mwuJ - Vegetarian Oyster Sauce: https://amzn.to/47RJ0U5 - Gluten-Free Oyster Sauce: https://amzn.to/3NdKPRK - Handcrafted Soy Sauce: https://bit.ly/handcrafted-soysauce 🎥 MY CAMERA GEAR! 🎥 - Workhorse Camera: https://amzn.to/3UaMdsd - Lens for Wide Shots: https://amzn.to/3YpCUHD - Lens for Detail Shots: https://amzn.to/4h781if - Macro Lens: https://amzn.to/3Y6ANXF These links are affiliate links, which means that if you use our links to purchase these ingredients, Amazon pays my family a small amount for the sale - at no extra cost to you. If you use these links, we really appreciate the support! ⏲ CHAPTERS ⏲ 00:00 - Wash chicken 01:10 - Blanch chicken 01:39 - Do you need to cook this dish with a whole chicken? 02:29 - On soy sauce chicken 03:07 - Prepare aromatics 04:06 - Stir-fry aromatics 05:05 - Add soy sauce 06:15 - More dark soy sauce for darker skin 07:01 - On soy sauce 07:43 - Ladle sauce onto chicken 08:22 - Simmer chicken in sauce 09:02 - Large chicken vs small chicken 10:37 - How to get the flavor deeper into chicken? 11:18 - Chicken cooking summary 12:08 - Transfer chicken to ice 12:39 - Boil the sauce 13:22 - Cut chicken 15:01 - Create sauce for chicken 15:26 - Add slurry 15:48 - Ladle sauce onto chicken 16:06 - Did parents eat this in China? 🔗 LINKS MENTIONED 🔗 MICHELIN Guide Asia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1dBTqm90A4 Made With Lau (White Cut Chicken recipe): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIX8it0BIao Woks of Life (Soy Sauce Chicken recipe): https://thewoksoflife.com/soy-sauce-chicken/ FlavCity with Bobby Parrish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0lPRRLkdN0 🎵 OTHER CREDITS 🎵 Produced by Randy Lau, Grace Phan Edited by Willard Chan, Nicole Cheng Translation by Arlene Chiu, David Loh Intro Flute Music - Performed by Daddy Lau Copyright Chillhop Music - https://chll.to/49e6fa9c Copyright Chillhop Music - https://chll.to/4ca8cc15 💛 OUR FAMILY 💛 Learn more about the Lau family, and why we started this channel + blog: https://madewithlau.com/family 👋 CONNECT WITH US 👋 https://www.tiktok.com/@madewithlau https://www.instagram.com/madewithlau https://www.facebook.com/madewithlau https://www.pinterest.com/madewithlau 🙏 SUPPORT OUR CHANNEL 🙏 If you enjoy these videos and want to support us being able to continue creating content for many years to come, we’d love for you to consider becoming a patron of Made With Lau. https://www.patreon.com/madewithlau