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Orange Chicken

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Orange chicken is an American Chinese dish of fried chicken coated in a sweet, orange-flavored chili sauce glaze, developed as part of the Americanized Chinese cuisine that emerged in United States restaurants. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Classification
Course
Main Course 1
Dietary Suitability
Contains Meat or Poultry 2
Origin Period, From (Year)
from 1987 2
Origin Region
United States 1
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In Cuisine

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Prepared By Technique

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Uses Ingredient

Chicken, Ingredients
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1. Orange Chicken (Wikidata)
P495 (country of origin): United States
Quote, P495 (country of origin): United States
United States
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2. Orange chicken (Wikipedia)
  • Article text
    According to Panda Express, their executive chef Andy Kao developed the original Chinese-American orange chicken recipe around the time a location opened at Ala Moana Center in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi in 1987, the first location outside of California.
  • Introduction
    Orange chicken is an American Chinese dish of fried chicken in a sweet orange-flavored chili sauce glaze.
  • Uses Ingredient: Chicken, infobox main_ingredient field
    Chicken, orange sauce or orange peels
  • Prepared By Technique: Frying, Lead sentence
    Orange chicken is an American Chinese dish of fried chicken in a sweet orange-flavored chili sauce glaze.
  • In Cuisine: American Cuisine, Lead section
    is an American Chinese dish
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