Our new series, Danwei Canteen is a quick guide to traditional Chinese food as it's prepared where the cuisine was born: in Chinese rural areas and villages. We'll accompany the food with originally recorded music from parks and villages, and new interpretations of Chinese folk songs and the traditional repertoire.

In the first episode, Li Zhongqing from Anhui prepares Chestnut Chicken Stew. The music is:
- Performance by an anonymous lap steel guitar player in Ritan Park
- Anhui Opera song 'The Emperor's Female Son-Law' sung by Wu Fei
- Anhui Opera song 'Tianxianpei' performed on guzheng, or Chinese zither, by Wu Fei

Ingredients

• A whole chicken with skin, liver and heart
• Peeled chestnuts: seven ounces (200 grams)
• Salt: a spoonful
• Green Onion, pepper, ginger
• Five cloves of garlic
• Peanut oil: three spoonfuls (two for frying the ga (less info)