Victor Liong’s Lacquered Cockerel Recipe

Ingredients

• Whole cockerel
• Lemon, cut into wedges
• Japanese Worcestershire sauce, as needed (see note)
• Spring onion, julienned
• Coriander leaves
• Black vinegar gastrique
• 200 gm black vinegar
• 200 gm sugar
• 8-spice salt
• 280 gm Murray River pink salt
• 40 gm sugar
• 10 gm star anise
• 15 gm black pepper
• 10 gm Sichuan pepper
• 1 gm chilli flakes
• 15 gm white pepper
• 12 gm coriander seeds
• 10 gm fennel seeds
• 5 gm cinnamon