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Chinese Paper-Wrapped Chicken

It doesn't require any special culinary skills to make this popular banquet dish.

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The Spruce Eats / Christine Ma

If you've ever attended a Chinese banquet, you may have been intrigued when a mysterious looking transparent packet was served. Upon opening it, you would have discovered a highly seasoned combination of deep-fried chicken and Chinese vegetables. Paper-wrapped chicken is a popular Cantonese dish that is now enjoyed throughout China. Of course, the food isn't actually wrapped in plain white bond paper - cellophane paper is normally used, although rice paper may be substituted. Aluminum foil works as well, truly making it a mystery dish since your guests can't see through the packet. Foil-wrapped chicken is sometimes called "silver-wrapped" or "gift-wrapped" instead of paper-wrapped chicken, but it is basically the same recipe. Another variation is to substitute beef or spareribs for the chicken.

The Marinade

The secret of this popular dish lies in the marinade. Once the wrapped chicken pieces are deep-fried, the marinade caramelizes onto the chicken and other ingredients, joining them together. Hoisin sauce is often added to the marinade; oyster sauce is also used. Two other popular marinade ingredients are sesame oil and five-spice powder . When wrapping the chicken, it is customary to add a few other ingredients as a type of garnish. Cilantro, Chinese dried mushrooms, Chinese sausages (you can substitute smoked ham), and/or green onions are all used.

Wrapping the Chicken

When it comes time to cook, the garnish and chicken pieces are wrapped envelope style in square packets and deep-fried. The envelopes should be deep-fried in batches of five to six at a time so as not to overcrowd the wok. Cooking time is normally about three to four minutes - long enough for the chicken to cook through but not for the paper to blacken. (This is for five to six-inch squares - the cooking time will be longer if you are working with a recipe that calls for larger packets.) Stir the pieces lightly with chopsticks a few times while deep-frying. Drain the cooked chicken packets on paper towels. While paper wrapped chicken is normally deep-fried, it can also be baked. Bake in a preheated 350 F/180 C oven for 15 minutes. Cool slightly before serving. To serve, pile the packages on a serving dish and surround with greens for garnish if desired. One final note: be sure to keep lots of napkins handy! Eating paper-wrapped chicken can be a rather messy business - you can use chopsticks to open the bundles, but most people just use their fingers.

Paper-Wrapped Chicken Recipe

(Serves 24 chicken packages)

Ingredients:

Vegetables:

Directions:

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Gather the ingredients.

Cut the chicken into thin slices roughly 2 1/2 inches long (to make 48 slices). Pound lightly on the back of the chicken to tenderize.

Mix together the marinade ingredients and marinate the chicken for one hour.

After the chicken has been marinating for 45 minutes, add the mushrooms and green onions. This allows them to absorb the marinade for a few moments while you begin wrapping.

Paper-wrapped chicken is normally wrapped envelope style. Take a square of paper and lay it out in front of you. Add 2 of the chicken slices, 1 slice of mushroom, 2 slices of green onion and a coriander sprig (if desired) in the middle, being sure to keep the filling in the center and not near the edges. Bring the bottom flap up over the chicken. Fold the right side over toward the middle, then the left side, so that one is overlapping the other. Fold the top flap down, tucking it inside the opening to seal the package. It is very important to make sure the packets are well sealed so that no oil seeps in.

Heat wok and add oil for deep-frying. When the oil is ready, slide the packages in, about 6 at a time so as not to overcrowd the wok. Deep-fry the packets, stirring occasionally, until the chicken is cooked through. Drain on paper towels. Continue deep-frying the rest of the packets.

Serve the chicken packets on a large platter, garnished with greens if desired. Guests can open the packets with either chopsticks or their fingers.

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Introduction: Paper YoYo

Introduction Here is a simply fun Paper Yo Yo for you to make. More commonly known as Chinese Paper YoYo and sometimes referred to as Paper Lasers. In any event they will stretch the meaning of fun. Make them as a rainy day craft, give them out at a party or as gifts, kids and adult will enjoy them. You can make one in less than 10 min. Great use of extra Wrapping paper purchased during the after Christmas sales.

Step 1: Materials & Tool

Materials & Tool

Materials 1) 1/4 inch Dowel – 12 inches Long 2) Wrapping Paper – 6 feet Long by 5 to 7 inches Wide Tool Glue stick Skill Level Easy Time to Complete 7 – 10 minutes

Step 2: Add Glue

1) Turn the Paper over so that the plain side is facing up and 2) Put some Glue on the edge at one end.

Step 3: Add Dowel

1) Lay the Dowel on the Paper where you just placed the Glue, 2) Roll the Stick and Paper until there is no more paper. Note : When you pick up your Paper Yo Yo , it will unravel some, not to worry this is to be expected. The Paper Yo Yo will not work if the paper is wrapped tightly. You are done with your Paper Yo Yo . Lets Play.... Warning : Some toys can be dangerous, if not used properly. Take care and aim your Paper Yo Yo away from people.

Step 4: Use the YoYo

Warning : Some toys can be dangerous, if not used properly. Take care and aim your Paper Yo Yo away from people. Operate the Yo Yo Step 1) Hold the Handle, Step 2) Flick your wrist in an outward motion. As if you where casting a fishing line into a pond. Step 3) Return the Handle and hand back to Step 1 position. As if you where pulling a fish in that you had caught. Step 4) Repeat. After a few tries you will find it easy to operate the Paper Yo Yo out to the full length of 5 feet.

Step 5: Observations & Summary

Observations & Summary

Observations These Paper Yo Yo s are great fun and they are easy to use. The benefits of these Paper Yo Yo s are: 1) They are Inexpensive to make. 2) You need a Quick craft to distract and Entertain the kids. 3) They are Fun. 4) They are colorful to watch. Summary I am satisfied with the results. The kids enjoyed them, too. Then I saw, and considered it well. I looked upon it, and received instruction..

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2 years ago on Step 4

I made this for my grandson using a chopstick and wrapping paper. He played with it all day, despite having more expensive toys around. Sometimes children show you the real meaning of life.

Reply 2 years ago

Thank you for reviewing and commenting. I am glad he had fun and kept him entertained. Simple games are good. Not too many rules to learn, freedom to change how you play, a break from thinking - even monotonous games have a place.

9 years ago on Introduction

I remember playing with these as a kid. Super fun!

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Thank you for reviewing and commenting. Yes, SUPER FUN. We would set up cans or toys on a shelf and knock them off with these.

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You Will Need

Cut the dowel down to 9" long with the saw. If you're using a straw you can obviously just use scissors.

Cut out a piece of wrapping paper 7' long by 4" wide.

Tape the wrapping paper to the dowel/straw.

Wrap the paper around the dowel/straw continuously.

To play: Flick wrist downward to let the paper extend and tilt it upward to let the paper retract. Enjoy!

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The Paper Yo-Yo is our Only Shot at Making Kids Great Again

One of my buddies just got back from a month-long trip around Asia, and in addition to the 15 packs of extra potent Chinese cigarettes he returned with, he also brought back something I’d never seen before: a paper yoyo. If you’re like me and you’ve never heard of a paper yoyo before, I highly recommend you get learned on what could be the children’s toy that saves all of humanity. Paper yoyos are a basic toy: just some paper tightly wrapped around a six inch stick. They’re simple, but they’re seriously the most entertaining toy I’ve ever played with.

Paper yoyos are a lot like Indiana Jones’s whip or a magic wand that can only perform the “expelliarmus” spell (yeah, I read all seven Harry Potter books, fuck with me). With a flick of the wrist, the paper yoyo shoots out anywhere from two to five feet depending on how hard you flick, and then recoils on itself. When I first started playing with it, I literally just walked around my house for two hours knocking shit out of people’s hands from five feet away. If that doesn’t sound like the definition of a fun time to you, I don’t know what does. And on top of that, with all the wrist flicking you end up doing, you have a pretty good excuse to go around listening to that “Flicka Da Wrist” song on repeat all day — something that’s sure to annoy your roommates if knocking full beers out of their hand didn’t already do the trick.

Just look at these kids here.

Sorry for making you endure those little fucktards, but try to tell me these kids look like they’re not having a good time. It’s seriously the perfect toy for children. They can entertain themselves alone for hours at a time, and when they get bored they can go and whack the shit out of each other with it. It sucks that I didn’t have one of these when I was a kid, but I just might buy one online and use it to mess with my brothers when I head back home next month.

Apparently these things have existed forever, but with the rise of electronic toys since the early 2000’s, they’ve been all forgotten about. This toy absolutely needs to make a come back. Not to sound like a typical old head here, but kids these days are getting too fucking soft. When I was a kid, a toy wasn’t fun if it couldn’t annoy or inflict pain on somebody else. We used to play with bb guns, plastic swords, slingshots, knives — you name it. If you could hurt that piece of shit 8 year old across the street with it, it was a cool toy.

Nowadays we’ve got spoiled brats that sit around with their faces glued to iPhones and fidget spinners all day. These kids are completely sheltered from the real world, which is only bound to create the kind of adults that need safe spaces and security blankets in the future. If this trend continues, we’re gonna have a serious problem on our hands when these pampered pussies grow up and try to lead our societies.

The way I see it, the paper yoyo is our only chance at saving humanity. The government needs to intervene and start pumping paper yoyos, bb guns, and slingshots into elementary schools again. It might be tough to compete with the iPhone, Xbox One, PS4, and the juggernaut of fidget spinners, but the paper yoyo is our only shot at making kids tough again. We need kids playing and fighting and, dare I say, bullying each other, because that’s how the real world works.

I don’t know if we’ll ever be able to fully stop the pussification of our species, but at the very least we need to try. If I and all my 20-something year old roommates can be entertained by a piece of paper and a stick, I bet any snot-nosed kid can be too. Paper YoYos to the moon baby!!

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