Taiwanese sesame chicken soup

1. Ingredients:

- A whole chicken, you can buy cut chicken if you don't like the whole one like this. I bought this one at Wholefood Tustin, level 5. This is the best chicken I can find in Irvine, it even better and more expensive then the fresh chicken at farmer market.

- 1 big piece of ginger

- 1 spoon of dried goji berries ( bought at Wholefood)

- 5 dried date (Asian date)

- 5 to 8 dried shitake mushroom (Japanese mushoom is better)

- 1/2 cup of sesame oil

- 1 cup of rice wine (Taiwanese rice wine)

- 1 spoon of salt, 1 spoon of fish sauce (optional)

2. Method:
- Rinse mushrooms, goji and dates under water for 10 seconds (clean extra dust or preservatives if added)
- Then soak mushroom in water for 10 minutes

- In a big pot, heat the sesame oil, then add sliced ginger, use medium heat for 5 minutes

- Clean chicken, dry well with paper towel, then add to the put, fried each side for 5 minutes

- Then add all other ingredients but the rice wine
- Add water to cover the chicken, open lid, cook for 45 minutes after it boiled

- Add the rice wine, open lid, use medium heat for 10 minutes to let the alcohol evaporated
- Then it's done, you can taste the soup to add more salt or fish sauce if you want.

This dish is suitable for winter time, but this summer, Irvine is too cold, I still want to eat  it ~~~~~