Taiwanese Style BBQ Chicken

I never BBQ in Australia while I live in there, so I don't know how to do BBQ chicken in western way, but I do know how to make BBQ chicken in Taiwanese way. In mostly Asian culture, every part of chicken could be eaten, from head to the foot. I understand westerner not use to see the chicken head still there after BBQ, but it's a part of food culture in Taiwan, so please be confidence to read this article.

You could get BBQ chicken easily in traditional market or large supermarket, but sometime you just feel like that you want to make BBQ chicken by yourself. You can do it in traditional way; use burn charcoal to BBQ the chicken, or use metal bucket. Before smart Taiwanese invented the bucket for making traditional BBQ chicken, we use a bucket which was the container for oil, it's easy to get and also a part of recycle. Try to cut a big hole and make sure all the chicken could get into the bucket. How to flavor the chicken? In my family we just smear salt on chicken skin and inside the chicken, and put some spring onion and chili etc. inside it, and use bamboo slip make sure ingredients won't fall out when it's cooking.

Drill and small hole on the bottom of the bucket, we are doing this because we need to fixed the chicken by wire and nail on the bottom of the bucket. Time to BBQ! After fixed the chicken, leave the bucket on the ground. At the moment, chicken is hanging up on the bottom of the bucket. Before to burn woods, put a metal plate under the chicken, because when it's BBQ it would drop lots oil, it would be a part of sauce with BBQ chicken. Leave woods around the bucket, try to put them even.

Start to burn woods and adjust fire all the time, we don't want burn or uncook chicken, are we? Remove the burned woods( it's charcoal now) after 15-20 minutes, it's all depend on the fire.  Carry the bucket carefully because it's very hot at the moment, and also the chicken still fixed on the bucket. Get a big plate which could handle all the chicken, cut the wire. Now we got a perfect cook BBQ chicken. Sometime we leave sweet potato with charcoal, it would cook by the heat, it also taste good. I usually chop spring onion and chili make the sauce, mix slat, black pepper and the oil from BBQ chicken. Although it looks oily, but it really taste good with chicken. Would you like to try it??