However, the taste and recipes of this dish differ due to cultural and geographical factors. In Chinese, this dish is known as "陳皮雞", literally "dried citrus peel chicken", referring to dried orange or tangerine peel. This dish may have originally come from the " tangerine chicken" dish from Hunan province, China. In most countries in the western hemisphere, the names "orange chicken", "orange peel chicken", "orange-flavored chicken", and " tangerine chicken" are typically used for this particular dish. Jimmy Wang, executive director of culinary innovation at Panda Express, claims orange chicken is one of the most creative dishes in the past thirty years.
by being served in school cafeterias, and in military bases' chow halls, and also found in the supermarket frozen meal aisle.
Lee says that both "General Tso's chicken and Orange Chicken are Americanized mutations of sweet and sour dishes found in China." Orange chicken has also entered the menus of the mainstream U.S. Andrew Cherng, owner and founder of Panda Express, said that orange chicken is just a variation of General Tso's chicken, another dish that is almost unknown in China. Orange chicken is called Chinese food in North America, but orange chicken is rarely found in Chinese restaurants in China. Since Panda Express is closely associated with this dish, Panda Express uses orange chicken as a promotion tool by having a dedicated food truck tour the country distributing samples of orange chicken. Chef Andy Kao claims to have developed the original Chinese-American orange chicken recipe at a Panda Express in Hawaii in 1987. While the dish is very popular in the United States, it is most often found as a variation of General Tso's chicken in North America rather than the dish found in mainland China. The variety of orange chicken most commonly found at North American Chinese restaurants consists of chopped, battered and fried chicken pieces coated in a sweet orange-flavored chili sauce, which thickens or caramelizes to a glaze. Orange chicken is an American Chinese dish of fried chicken in a sweet orange-flavored chili sauce glaze.
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