The Ultimate Glossy Soy Sauce Chicken Recipe (醬油雞) You Need to Try!

Soy sauce chicken (豉油雞) is a staple Cantonese dish celebrated for its silky texture, aromatic poaching broth, and deep savory-sweet glaze. This recipe is a quick homestyle skillet method of cooking soy chicken as compared to Chefs Lau Juiciest Soy sauce chicken. 

Feature	The Ultimate Glossy Soy Sauce Chicken	Chef Lau's JUICIEST Whole Soy Sauce Chicken
Dish Style	Quick home-style skillet method	Traditional restaurant-style whole poached chicken
Main Cut	Whole chicken or cut-up chicken leg quarters	1 whole chicken
Prep Time	~10 minutes	~15 minutes
Cooking Time	15–20 minutes	~30 minutes (plus cooling time)
Ease of Cooking	Easy (Beginner-friendly pan-searing & simmer)	Intermediate (Requires whole-body blanching & flipping)
Estimated Nutrition	~350 kcal per serving	~380 kcal per serving

Key Recipe Differences

• The Ultimate Glossy Soy Sauce Chicken: Ideal for weeknight dinners. Searing the cut-up chicken skin-first before simmering creates a rich, concentrated reduction that thickens into a glossy coating in under 30 minutes.

• Chef Lau's Whole Soy Sauce Chicken: Focuses on classic Cantonese technique. Blanching the skin first tightens it to absorb color evenly, while low-heat poaching and an immediate ice-bag cooling technique deliver soft, tender meat with extra-juicy skin.

 

Nutritional Information

• Estimated Calorie Count: ~350 – 380 kcal per serving (Serves 4)

• Protein: ~32g

• Fat: ~18g

• Carbohydrates: ~8g (mainly from sugar and soy sauce reduction)

Ingredients

• Whole chicken or chicken leg quarters (cut into pieces)

• 3 tbsp light soy sauce

• 2 tbsp dark soy sauce

• 1 tbsp Shaoxing cooking wine

• 1 tbsp rock sugar (or granulated sugar)

• 3 slices ginger

• 2 scallions (green onions), cut into sections

• 2 cloves garlic, crushed

• 1 star anise

• 1 cup water or chicken broth

• Cooking oil

Instructions

1. Prepare the chicken: Clean and pat dry the chicken pieces thoroughly.

2. Aromatics: Heat a small amount of oil in a pot over medium heat. Add ginger, scallions, garlic, and star anise, stir-frying until fragrant.

3. Brown & Simmer: Add the chicken pieces and lightly sear the skin. Pour in Shaoxing wine, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, rock sugar, and water.

4. Baste & Cook: Bring to a simmer, cover, and cook on low-medium heat for 15–20 minutes, turning and basting the chicken occasionally to coat it evenly in the rich sauce.

5. Thicken & Serve: Remove the lid and increase the heat slightly to reduce the sauce until it forms a thick, glossy glaze over the chicken. Garnish with chopped green onions and serve hot over steamed rice.

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🐓 Chef Lau Teaches How To Cook the JUICIEST Whole Soy Sauce Chicken (豉油雞)

Soy sauce chicken are usually seen in hanging in chinese restaurants. Its is a traditional dish enjoyed on special occasions like birthdays, feasts like new year, gatherings like weddings, and promotions. It symbolizes family, completeness, unity and abundance.

Ingredients:

1 whole chicken

3 green onion cut into 3 inchess

1 ginger sliced

3 star anise crushed

4 shallots cut into 4 pieces

6 tbsp. rice wine

1 oz.light  soy sauce

1 tbsp dark soy sauce

2 tbsp. sugar or to taste

1. Wash the chicken thoroughly including the chicken cavity.

2. Blanch the chicken with boiling water until the skin contracts. Make sure to blanch the cavity of the chicken also. Balnching the chicken helps the soy sauce attach to it making it a golden brown color later on.

3, Prepare the aromatics. Then fry them starting with the ginger, the shallots, the star anise, the green onion, and  3 tbsp. of rice wine.

4. Once the aromatics are fragrant add in 12 oz. of soy sauce and let it cook for a minute. Then add 16 oz. of hot water followed by the rock sugar. After a minute add 3 tbsp. of rice wine then simmer for 6 minutes stirring occasionally.

5. Baste your chicken with the soy sauce mixture until it covers the whole chicken. Then place the chicken in a pot and pour the whole soy sauce mixture in it. Cover it and boil on low heat for 15 minutes or until tender. After 15 minutes flip the chicken and do the other side for .another 15 minutes. After 15 minutes poke the chicken to see if the chicken is done, if no red color comes out of the hole then the chicken is done.

6.Bring the chicken out then put it on top of a bag of ice to cool down. Place a bag of cool ice on top of the chicken also. This done so the juices will be locked in the chicken when the chicken skin contracts.

7. Prepare the sauce by getting two laddles of the sauce and mixing it with slurry until thick.

8.When the chicken is ready cut it and plate then pour the sauce over it and serve.

Stir fried squid with red and green bell pepper. by 阿朝哥美食 (Chef Asao)

A delicious dish of squid prepared by Chef Asao. He teaches us the proper way to clean and cut squid. The ingredients are readily available and the cooking procedure is easy.

Ingredients:

Squid

1 red bell pepper

1 green bell pepper

1 red onion

3 gloves of garlic 

1 thumb ginger

1 tbsp. cooking wine

1 tbsp. soy sauce

1 tbsp. oyster sauce

1 tbsp. sugar

1 tbsp. salt

a dash of white pepper

dash of chicken essence

Preparation

1. Prepare the sauce by adding the oyster sauce, soy sauce, sugar, salt dash of white pepper, dash of chicken essence .

2. slice your red and green bell pepper, red onion, 3 gloves of garlic, 1 thumb ginger.

3.clean your aquid first by washing thoroughly. then cutting your squid and removing the skin, the internal organs and the teeth. For softer squid first do diagonal cuttings on the meat without cutting through. Then do the cutting in the opposite direction as shown on the video.

Cooking

1. Bring water to a boil. Thamen place ginger and Chinese cooking wine.  Place the squid and boil for a few minutes until soft. Remove the squid fro boiling water when cooked.

2. Heat pan and saute the bell pepper, add the ginger and garlic, Stir fry until aromatic then add the sliced onions then the squid.

3. Lastly add the prepared sauce and stir fry until flavors mixed/