| Dong'an chicken | |
| Label1: | Simplified |
| Data1: | 东安鸡 |
| Label2: | Traditional |
| Data2: | 東安雞 |
| Label3: | Cuisine |
| Data3: | Hunan cuisine |
Dong'an chicken is a Chinese cold parboiled chicken dish, flavoured with chili peppers, ground Sichuan peppercorns, white rice vinegar, scallions and ginger. It is named after Dong'an County.[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.[4]