Drunken Chicken Salad with Green Onion and Ginger

Ingredients

• Chicken
• 1.5 kg chicken thighs, boned, skin on
• To garnish: green onion curls
• Marinade
• 80 gm ginger, thickly sliced
• 70 gm salt
• 70 gm sugar
• 4 green onions, cut into 5cm lengths
• 2 star anise
• 2 pieces dried mandarin peel
• 250 ml Shaoxing wine or dry sherry (1 cup)
• 100 ml Mei Kui Lu Chiew spirit (see note)
• Green onion and ginger dressing
• 200 gm ginger, peeled and finely chopped
• 5 green onions, cut into 5cm lengths
• To taste: sugar
• 250 ml vegetable oil (1 cup)