Go to Gus’s World Famous in Sixth Ward when you want Southern fried chicken with a crunch that ... pie follows up sides like country-style baked beans and spice-crusted macaroni and cheese.

This is the most famous of Hakka dishes, a whole chicken that is baked in hot salt and emerges exceedingly juicy and not at all salty. In 2018, Food & Wine named this recipe one of our 40 best.