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| Kung Pao Chicken |
As one of the most famous traditional Chinese dishes, Kung Pao Chicken is a typical Szechwan dish made with peanuts, diced chicken and chili pepper. This dish is very popular in USA and many European countries and it is often used as the test item in the professional chef test to evaluate the skill level of a chef. But why people call it "Kung Pao Chicken", in this article, I would like to tell it origin.
In fact, Kung Pao is the name of a person, who called Ding Baozhen. Ding Baozhen was born in Ping Yuan town, Guizhou province. He was a Jinshi (Jinshi: a successful candidate in the highest imperial examinations in feudal China) in late Qing dynasty. In feudal china, if you were selected in the imperial examinations, it means that you would be the high-ranking official. First and last, Mr. Ding was served as the governor in Shandong (the hometown of Confucius) and Szechwan province. Also he was a gourmet and liked to treat his friends with his dish "stir-fried diced chicken" developed by himself. This dish was not famous then. When Ding was served as the governor of Szechwan, he improved his dish with chili pepper since all the local people liked dishes with chili pepper. As a result, the original version of this dish combining spicy flavor formed. All his guests loved the new dish very much and it became more and more popular among local people. Later, Ding was granted the title"Tai Zi Shao Bao" (a kind of official, literal means the protector of crown prince), and the Kung Pao is the short name of this title. After Mr. Ding died, people named this dish as "Kung Pao Chicken" in memory of Ding Baozhen.
Now, Kung Pao Chicken has many versions and all of them are liked by people.
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