• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Orange chicken is not a traditional food in China. It was invented in the USA at chinese take out restaurants using locally available ingredients.

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          2 years ago

          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

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      2 years ago

      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’.