雞家莊。JiJiaZhuang
長春路55號；﹙02﹚2581-5954
55, ZhangChun Rd
營業時間/Hours：11 am–10 pm
可刷卡，收一成服務費
Credit Cards Accepted. 10% service charge.
中/英/日文菜單 / Chinese/Englih/Japanese menu
JiJiaZhuang：The Most Authentic Taiwanese Cuisine That Makes You Homesick When Abroad
Recently director JiaChang Liu returned to Taiwan for the first time in 10 years. He specifically requested to dine in JiJiaZhuang as his first meal back home. For 35 years JiJiaZhuang has been a top notch restaurant in Taiwanese cuisine. Many overseas Taiwanese people don’t bother going home first to drop off luggage and go straight from TaoYuan International Airport to JiJiaZhuang for a feast! It is what they’ve been dreaming of day and night because the food is so good that you drool even just dreaming about it.
Ms. XueYu Lee, the founder of JiJiaZhuang, was a poulterer at JianCheng Traditional Market. With the encouragement of her longtime good friend and Taiwanese opera legend LiHua Yang, Lee started JiJiaZhuang and created Taiwanese dishes made of chicken. The menu is quite extensive, including cold dishes, soup, meat stew, casseroles, seafood, traditional stir-fry and vegetables. And there’s a whole section of vegetarian dishes for non-meat eaters. However, you will not find beef in the menu.
JiJiaZhuang is well known for chicken dishes and you may wonder what makes the chicken so special. According to manager Ms. Huang who has been working here since the day after she graduated from school, “we only use pure breeds and not the egg-laying breeds because pure breeds have the best meat quality! They are also free range chicken.” When dining in JiJiaZhuang you must order “Three Savory Chicken”﹙NT$420/small﹚. You dip black-bone chicken in ginger sauce and roast chicken in sweet & hot red sauce. Steamed chicken goes well with both sauces. The chicken here is extra tender and sweet. “JiJia Tofu”﹙NT$256﹚is made of shredded chicken, tofu and oyster sauce. It will make you ask for a second serving of rice!
Speaking of rice JiJiaZhuang’s signature “Chicken Broth Broiled Rice”﹙NT$30/person﹚is unlike any steamed rice you’ve ever had. Instead of plain tap water white rice is cooked with chicken broth which is the essence of chicken meat. “Salt Shrimp”﹙NT$360﹚and “Small Fish with Green Vegetables”﹙NT$256﹚seem like simple dishes but they are the kind of dishes that make overseas Taiwanese people nostalgic. Many customers started coming here with their parents at a young age. Now they bring their offspring to JiJiaZhuang to eat the same dishes they grew up with. Neither children nor adults can resist the “Egg Pudding”﹙NT$120/takeout﹚;Even Japanese customers who have high standard for desserts rave about it. Plum tea and egg pudding are complimentary on the house. All the staff and chefs dedicated their youth working here and they are the reason why the quality and the service have been consistent for 35 years. Many customers are most touched by this traditional Taiwanese flavor!
雞家莊：最具家鄉味的台灣美食
日前知名導演劉家昌回到台灣，離鄉背井多年，他的第一餐特別選在雞家莊。其實三十五年來，雞家莊向來是台菜料理的佼佼者，很多旅居國外的台灣人在抵達桃園機場之後，提著行李，直接趕到日夜思念的雞家莊大吃一頓，因為這裡的家鄉菜可是連作夢都會流口水的！
雞家莊的老闆李雪玉原是建成市場的雞販，在好友著名歌仔戲小生楊麗花的鼓勵之下，創立雞家莊，一家以雞肉為主題的台菜餐廳，菜單內容豐富，從冷盤、燉湯、滷味、鍋類、海鮮、小炒、青菜等等，也貼心為日廣大的素食主義者準備素菜，唯獨不賣牛肉。
既然是以雞肉料理聞名的餐廳，想必大家會好奇這裡的雞肉為何與眾不同。一畢業要進雞家莊工作的黃經理說：「我們採用小姐雞，就是沒生過蛋的放山雞，因為肉質最好。」到此用餐必點的三味雞﹙420元/小份﹚由烏骨雞、燻雞和油雞組成，燻雞沾紅醬，烏骨雞配薑汁，油雞兩種醬料皆可。這裡的雞肉果真比較嫩，肉質也甜。雞家豆腐﹙256元﹚是以蠔油炒雞丁和豆腐，非常下飯！
說到飯，一定要提到雞飯﹙30元/人﹚，煮飯時以雞湯取代水，這是別家吃不到的！鹽酥蝦﹙360元﹚和紋魚杏菜﹙256元﹚看似簡單，卻是思鄉人難以忘懷的道地台菜。很多客人從小跟著父母到雞家莊吃飯，如今都帶著自己的下一代前來用餐！無論是大人小孩都無法抗拒雞家莊的雞蛋布丁﹙120元/外帶﹚的魅力！牛奶、雞蛋和糖烤出來的雞蛋布丁連對甜點高標準的日本客人都說讚！只要在雞家莊用餐，飯後都會送上酸梅茶和雞蛋布丁！雞家莊的員工和師傅也都是從年輕做到中年，正因如此，雞家莊的服務和味道維持不變，而這傳統口味也是讓客人最感動的地方！
