Dong'an chicken (simplified Chinese: 东安鸡; traditional Chinese: 東安雞; pinyin: Dōng'ānjī) is a Chinese cold parboiled chicken dish, flavoured with chili peppers, ground Sichuan peppercorns, white rice vinegar, scallions and ginger.
[1] Dong'an chicken is a traditional Hunan dish, which started in the Tang dynasty.
[2] In February 1972, when then-U.S. President Richard Nixon visited China, Mao Zedong entertained Nixon with Hunan dishes such as Dong'an chicken at a banquet.
[3] It has evolved through three dynasties, named "mature vinegar chicken" in the Western Jin dynasty, "Guanbao chicken" in the late Qing dynasty, and "Dong'an chicken" in the Republic of China.
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