Move Over Hot Chicken, There’s a Hotter Chicken in Town
Source: New York Times
To be fair, Panda Express never pretended that Sichuan hot chicken was a Sichuan dish. In posts online, the company described it as “an authentic Chinese twist on an American comfort classic” — a homage to Nashville hot chicken, whose origins go back to the city’s segregated Black neighborhoods of the 1930s. (It was purportedly first concocted as a blistering punishment for a philandering lover, as the historian…
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