Taiwanese Giant Fried Chicken

Hello! Hi everyone, Wesley here. Today we're diving back into our series dedicated to reproducing foods from our eight day trip traveling through Taipei Taiwan with a look at what I would call the single biggest piece of fried chicken that I have ever consumed in my life, which is the Taiwanese fried chicken from Hot-Star. For those unfamiliar, Hot-Star is a well known food stall located (amongst its many locations) at the very front entrance of the Shilin night market in Taiwan. As with most stalls found in the Taiwanese night markets, Hot-Star is very well known for serving exactly one thing and ONLY one thing, which is a giant piece of fried chicken, done Taiwanese style with potato and tapioca starch, then seasoned with salt and white pepper.

Now, right off the bat, I will acknowledge that this is certainly a little bit gimmicky, it does literally say "large chicken steak" on their signage which is...you know. Accurate. And while I was admittedly apprehensive about this spot at first, I have to admit, that the large shape and size of this giant piece of chicken, actually had a relatively significant affect to the way it tasted. Hot-Star's chicken is created using a piece of chicken breast that has been butterflied open before it's been breaded and fried. This not only yields a piece of chicken that is legitimately roughly the size of my entire face, but also creates a thinner piece of chicken that in turn yields a better and more crispy fry. Hope you try it.Hope you try it.