Hello everyone, my name is Wan -ting.
Today we are going to visit a really special restaurant,
which used to be a barn.
Sounds interesting, right?
And it is famous for its sesame oil cuisine.
Let’s go and take a look!
This is our Secretary-general, Mrs. Chen.
Hello Mrs. Chen.
Hello Wan -ting, Hello everyone!
Why did you want to turn a barn into a restaurant?
Farmers' association has much vacant space before.
We don’t have that many paddies.
So we just reuse the vacant space,
which used to store paddies,to be a restaurant.
The deserted barn has been turned into a restaurant.
At first, the restaurant featured the pilot project
for elderly employment,
and as time went by,
the restaurant has made some reforms
and worked together with local industries.
The restaurant is very special,
and it’s also a popular check-in site.
Let’s go check it out!
This is our Manager of the restaurant, Ms. Shi.
Hello Ms. Shi
Good afternoon.
Can you introduce a little bit about the restaurant?
OK! I will show you around.
We have many products here.
All of them are made from local ingredients.
For example, the sesame oil is made from local sesame
and produced by our Farmers' association.
I smelled the aroma of sesame seeds the moment I walked in.
By the way, how does the sesame grow?
Sesame (jhima) is also called huma in Chinese.
Sesame is planted two times a year.
As for spring cropping,
sesame is planted during March to April
and harvested during June to July.
After harvesting, sesame has to be dried under the sun.
Farmers wrap up a dozen of sesame plants into a bundle
and they lay the bundles on the farm to dry them up under the sun.
After that, farmers spread out plastic fabric on the farm,
and beat sesame bundles with a stick
so that sesame seeds fall on the plastic fabric.
Seeds are then collected and sent for screening.
Only those who pass the screening process will go through processing.
The first step of processing is baking,
where you pour sesame seeds
into a baking stove and stir-fry them.
The fried seeds have to be cooled down
before they are ground.
Next, the ground seeds will be steamed.
Then, we pour the steamed seeds into round plates
and compress them into a pie shape.
Finally, we’re ready for oil pressing.
The extracted oil has to wait for a month before it can be bottled.
Wow! It takes four to five months to make a bottle of sesame oil!
It’s definitely not an easy job!
Wan–ting! When you visit Sigang,
you have to taste the most representative cuisine-
Sesame oil chicken hot pot!
It is different from other common hot pot.
You can first taste it with fried flavor.
After adding some soup it becomes the hot pot!
You can enjoy two different experiences simultaneously!
But the material is raw, how can we cook it?
I can show you.
Just like this, stir it by yourself
about five minutes and the chicken is ready to be eaten.
You can first taste the dry part.
But I have a question,
isn’t sesame oil chicken too warm to be eaten in summer?
Actually, during winter and summer,
it has different portion of sesame oil.
Sesame oil chicken is made with different proportion
of sesame oil and ginger in different seasons.
No wonder when we eat it in winter, we feel warm,
but when we eat it in summer, we don’t feel too hot.
We tend to eat many cool things in summer, right?
It is beneficial to our health if we have some sesame oil occasionally.
See? After five minutes,
the fried sesame oil chicken is ready!
The chicken is really juicy
and it has special smelling of sesame oil.
It is fantastic!
It will become hot pot if we put some soup in it.
The soup is really warm and also really sweet.
I like it!
In addition to sesame oil chicken,
sesame oil shrimps
and chicken soup with peeled chili pepper are also worth trying.
You can give it a try to taste different dishes
as well as cook the dishes by yourself!
Wow! Making sesame oil chicken is not that difficult.
The shop owner said you’ll make delicious sesame oil chicken
if you choose the right sesame oil.
But how do we select the right sesame oil?
The sesame oil is clear
and the color is amber.
You can also try rubbing some oil on your skin.
Good sesame oil will be absorbed quickly!
If you long to country life,
I strongly recommend you to visit the restaurant.
Try some sesame oil chicken
and the agricultural creative products.