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Orange chicken is just chicken nuggets tossed in sauce.
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Orange chicken is not a traditional food in China. It was invented in the USA at chinese take out restaurants using locally available ingredients.
I thought this too, especially after I lived in China for years, but I just went to Southern China and tangerine chicken is a traditional food used for celebrations.
Even if you don't eat it, since it's sweet, it's like a traditional celebratory good luck food to always have with your feasts at weddings or promotion dinners or family get-togethers.
First time I ever saw orange chicken in China, but apparently it is a traditional food down south, as far back as anyone I talked to remembers, and it's important to note that in the south, every spring festival every family and business buys a tangerine or clementine tree like a Christmas tree, so likely not an original Hawaiian creation in 1987 or whatever that cook says it was.
Maybe he independently created it, but it doesn't look like he originally created it.
Thank you, that's awesome
High five.
When I was riding through the city I was in, there were multiple commercial rows like 100 deep and a thousand wide of clementine and tangerine trees, it was pretty cool.
Maybe the Chinese orange chicken is actually made from clementines and not tangerines, because I remember there being a lot more clementine trees
No, it isn't a traditional Chinese recipe, but many American Chinese restaurants have figured out a way to do an analog of it as I described, due to many Americans now expecting it as a basic staple of 'Chinese food'.
Thats not true. Ancient Chinese secret is Orange Chicken