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Pickles and Tea chicken Tag

General Tso’s Chicken

23 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Chinese, Deep-frying, Entrees, Fusion, Poultry

General Tso’s chicken may be the emblematic go-to dish at Chinese restaurants across North America but this supposedly Hunan dish is virtually unknown in China. In her 2013 cookbook Every Grain of Rice--Simple Chinese Home Cooking, Fuchsia Dunlop explains that General Tso’s chicken was actually invented by...

Coronation Chicken–A Sandwich Fixing Fit for a Queen

17 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Appetizers, Fusion, Poultry, Salads

Coronation chicken isn’t so well known in these parts (i.e. the U.S.) but in the U.K., this dish has a fabled history. A humble dish with a regal name, coronation chicken was invented by Rosemary Hume, the founder of Le Cordon Bleu, joining the ranks of...

Chicken Biryani Three Ways

13 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Celebrations, Entrees, Indian, Pakistani, Poultry

I first met Jafar "Jeff" Siddiqui 16 years ago when I first came to the U.S. Jeff and his wife Kathy were my brother's host parents. Every year, FIUTS, an organization at the University of Washington, plays matchmaker, pairing newly arrived foreign students with American...

Of Stuffed Wings and Tight Socks–Stuffed Cambodian Chicken Wings (Moane Teum)

16 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Cambodian, Poultry

"It's just like pulling off a really tight sock," said Phiroum Svy matter-of-factly. I had never thought of it that way. Then again, I'd never tried deboning a whole chicken before. (Here's some trivia for you: debone and bone are synonyms, go figure!) We were in...