Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken Ingredients: 2 lbs boneless skinless chicken thighs Vegetable oil or canola oil for deep frying Fresh basil for garnish Sweet potato starch for coating Marinade: Egg whites from 2 eggs 2 Tbsp fresh Ginger - grated 4 Cloves Garlic - grated 1 tsp white pepper 4 tsp soy sauce 4 tsp xiaoxing wine or (Dry sherry wine/ Sake/ Mirin) 2 tsp chicken powder or consommé powder Seasoning: 2 tsp White pepper 1.5 tsp Chinese 5 spice 1 tsp sugar 1 tsp Kosher salt or to taste Instructions: 1. Cut the chicken thighs into bite sized pieces. A large chicken thigh should yield 7-9 bite sized pieces. 2. Make the marinade by mixing the ingredients listed above. 3. Marinate the chicken for at least 2 hours but preferably overnight. 4. Once the chicken is done marinating, pre-heat your oil to 375 F. 5. Coat the marinated chicken in the sweet potato starch. Squeeze the chicken tight so that the starch doesn’t fall off while frying. 6. I pre-heated the oil to 375 F at the start be...