Heat the water and dissolve the sugar and salt in the water.
Steep the tea leaves in the hot water for 5 minutes.
Discard the tea leaves and cool the brine down in the refrigerator.
Brine the chicken pieces for 6 to 12 hours in the brine.
Rinse the chicken in ice cold water to get rid of impurities.
Pat dry.
Chop the ginger and mix with rice wine, soy sauce and sugar.
Add the cooking cream and marinate the chicken in the cream mixture.
Marinate for at least one hour, but preferable overnight.
Grind the par boiled rice into a fine powder, sieve through a fine mesh sieve and discard the coarse leftover rice kernels.
Mix flour, potato starch and rice flour.
Bread the chicken in the flour mixture.
Fry the chicken for 10 minutes at 150 ˚C and cool to room temperature.
Mix all ingredients for the glazing sauce and reserve.
Chop the chives and reserve.