🍽️ Guangming Squab

Crispy-skin squab, Shenzhen signature.

Guangming Squab is the signature dish of Shenzhen's Guangming district, a Cantonese-style roasted poultry specialty. Squabs around twenty days old are seasoned, glazed with a crisp-skin syrup and deep-fried or roasted until the skin turns date-red. The skin is shatteringly crisp, the meat tender and juicy, and even the bones carry a savory aroma; eaten hot, torn by hand, it is at its best. The crisp-skin glaze and frying heat are the soul of the dish. Though Shenzhen is a young city, Guangming squab has become a local banquet and restaurant must-order, a genuine native flagship among the city's dining cards.