Dong'an chicken Dong'an chicken Dong'an chicken () is a Chinese cuisine cold parboiled chicken dish from Hunan cuisine, flavoured with chili peppers, ground sichuan peppercorns, white rice vinegar, scallions and ginger. It is named after Dong'an County. It is one of the signature dishes of Hunan chefs. Dongan Chicken is a classic Hunan dish. Its cooking method originated from Dong'an County, Hunan Province. According to legend, as early as the first year of Tang Xuanzong, Dong'an people began to make vinegar chicken. The vinegar chicken was renamed Dong'an Chicken in two ways: One said that because of the Xiang military commander in
Cantonese cuisine in contrast with their liberal use in other cuisines such as Sichuanese, Vietnamese, Lao, Thai and European. Garlic chives and coriander leaves are notable exceptions, although the former are often used as a vegetable and the latter are usually used as mere garnish in most dishes. In Cantonese cuisine, a number of ingredients such as sugar, salt, soy sauce, rice wine, cornstarch, vinegar, scallion and sesame oil, suffice to enhance flavour, although garlic is heavily used in some dishes, especially those in which internal organs, such as entrails, may emit unpleasant odours. Ginger, chili peppers, five-spice powder, powdered black pepper,