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...

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