Mongolian Chicken
Mongolian chicken has almost nothing to do with Mongolia. The name actually traces back to Wu Zhaonan, a Beijing-born comedian who fled to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War and opened a food stall in Taipei in 1951. If it were up to Wu, his griddle-cooked dish would’ve been named “Peking barbecue” after his hometown, but Peking (or, as you might know it, Beijing) had just been named the capital of Communist China. READ MORE... from Kitchn | Inspiring cooks, nourishing homes https://ift.tt/flYaEhw