One story — likely to be a mere urban legend — goes that a Westerner came across the dish "sweetened soya sauce chicken wings" in a restaurant, and asked a Chinese waiter what that was.

The waiter, who did not speak perfect English, introduced the dish as "sweet wing".

[3] The story goes that a foreigner had dinner in Guangzhou Tai Ping Koon Restaurant (太平館).

He was amazed by the sweeten chicken wings served to him and asked the waiter for the name of the dish.

The restaurant decided to leave the mistake uncorrected and make the best of it by changing the name of the dish to "Swiss Chicken Wings".