The prototype of the "ecstasy rice" in the claypot rice movie "God of Food", the name is really not an exaggeration, and a hot claypot rice on a street corner late at night does have such an effect. Temple Street, a famous night market business district in Hong Kong, hides Hing Kee, a claypot rice known as "the most authentic in Hong Kong".
The claypot is a casserole, and the stoneware clay pot can best preserve the temperature of the food, and it is easy to produce cracks under the attack of fierce fire, so it needs to be fixed with iron wire close to the body of the pot, that is, "hoop pot" (the meaning of falling in love and compounding). Every claypot rice has its own secret recipe for rice, all in order to make a crisp and plump claypot rice. Slightly harder rice grains make it easier to make shaped rice coke (pot rice), which is a major sign of high-quality claypot rice.
Hing Kee Claypot Rice is not the most upscale claypot rice restaurant, but it has the most variety, with more than 60 kinds of ingredients alone. Michelin's recommendation is the most traditional slippery chicken claypot rice, served with sausage and drizzled with oyster sauce. However, you need to be patient when eating claypot rice, which is usually made to order for more than 20 minutes. If you want to try some more exotic meats, there are also field chicken, yellow eel, white eel, beef tendon, cream crab, etc., which are simmered and soft and delicious, as well as innovative flavors such as curry claypot rice. If you don't feel that the taste is enough, you can also add some soy sauce on the table, and remember not to pour it all into the claypot indiscriminately, but to draw a circle from the center to the outside to make a sizzling sound to be stylish.
In terms of the essence, claypot rice is not limited to the taste of the ingredients, but at the bottom of the claypot: after stirring, the claypot rice has meat, rice, and sauce in one spoonful, and the golden and crispy rice is integrated into it, which is the best way to open the claypot rice.
As a late-night snack mecca, Hing Kee doesn't open until after 5 p.m. There are five Hing Kee restaurants around Yau Ma Tei, located on Temple Street and Yata Street, with No. 19 being the oldest. Stir-fried oysters, fried clams, salt-and-pepper shrimp, fried fresh squid, etc., can all be used as a meal for claypot rice.
