En 1987, Andy Kao, chef ex\u00e9cutif de Panda Express \u00e0 Glendale, Californie (d\u2019origine ta\u00efwanaise, form\u00e9 notamment en cuisine fran\u00e7aise), se rend \u00e0 Hawa\u00ef pour ouvrir le premier Panda Express hors de Californie, au centre commercial Ala Moana Center. Sur place, il observe l\u2019abondance d\u2019agrumes (oranges, mandarines), le go\u00fbt des habitants pour les plats de viande et les saveurs franches ainsi que le succ\u00e8s local de plats chinois d\u00e9j\u00e0 connus comme le poulet General Tso (lui-m\u00eame une invention sino-am\u00e9ricaine). Cela lui rappela les saveurs aigres-douces et \u00e9pic\u00e9es de certaines pr\u00e9parations chinoises (notamment des plats de poulet aux agrumes de la province du Hunan, comme le \u00ab tangerine chicken \u00bb). Il cr\u00e9a alors sur place un nouveau plat de poulet frit, d\u2019abord avec os et peau, et enrob\u00e9 d\u2019une sauce brillante, sucr\u00e9e, acidul\u00e9e et l\u00e9g\u00e8rement \u00e9pic\u00e9e, \u00e0 base de jus et\/ou zestes d\u2019orange, sucre, vinaigre noir chinois, sauce soja, ail, gingembre et piment. Le plat rencontra imm\u00e9diatement du succ\u00e8s \u00e0 Hawa\u00ef. De retour aux USA, les retours clients pouss\u00e8rent tr\u00e8s vite \u00e0 deux modifications majeures : la suppression des os et l’ adoucissement du piquant dans une sauce plus sucr\u00e9e et lisse. C\u2019est cette version qui devint l\u2019orange chicken tel qu\u2019on le conna\u00eet aujourd\u2019hui. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Au fil des d\u00e9cennies, l\u2019orange chicken devint le plat le plus vendu de Panda Express, repr\u00e9sentant un tiers des ventes sur l\u2019ensemble du r\u00e9seau. <\/a>Depuis 2014, 31 000 tonnes d\u2019orange chicken se sont ainsi \u00e9coul\u00e9es chez Panda Express. <\/a>Le plat est ainsi devenu si embl\u00e9matique qu\u2019un \u00ab National Orange Chicken Day \u00bb a \u00e9t\u00e9 institu\u00e9 le 15 juillet, c\u00e9l\u00e9brant sp\u00e9cifiquement cette cr\u00e9ation. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n A noter que l\u2019orange chicken est quasiment introuvable en Chine dans sa forme Panda Express ; il reste un ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne nord-am\u00e9ricain, parfois repris dans d\u2019autres pays via des cha\u00eenes inspir\u00e9es de Panda.<\/p>\n\n\n En 1987, Andy Kao, chef ex\u00e9cutif de Panda Express \u00e0 Glendale, Californie (d\u2019origine ta\u00efwanaise, form\u00e9 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-etats-unis","category-poulet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldfoodhacks.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldfoodhacks.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldfoodhacks.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldfoodhacks.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldfoodhacks.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/worldfoodhacks.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090,"href":"https:\/\/worldfoodhacks.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions\/2090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldfoodhacks.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldfoodhacks.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldfoodhacks.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldfoodhacks.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}