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Other particularities I've noticed are the lack of Orange Chicken in Canada and the lack of Ginger Beef in the states (they don't know what they're missing).
by schwap 11y ago
Other particularities I've noticed are the lack of Orange Chicken in Canada and the lack of Ginger Beef in the states (they don't know what they're missing).
- danielki 11y agoFrom my understanding, this is because neither of these are actually true "Chinese" dishes,. Ginger Beef was "invented" by a Chinese immigrant in Calgary in the 1970s [0], whereas the westernized Orange Chicken is actually a variation on General Tso's chicken, which was invented/popularized in New York in the early 1970s [1]. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20090330125905/http://cbc.ca/news/background/chinese-newyear/calgary.html https://web.archive.org/web/20090330125905/http://cbc.ca/new... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Tso%27s_chicken#Name_and_origins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Tso%27s_chicken#Name_a...