Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Meal 22

Kung Pao Chicken
 Rating: 6(Mediocre)
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“Why put peanuts on a perfectly good meal?” I want to ask Dragon City. It seems it would have been perfectly acceptable with a vacancy of goobers but instead they beefed up the Kung Pao Chicken with more protein than you can possibly govern. This pallet of feed exhibits a fine display of traditional Chinese vegetables flaunting diced celery, water chestnuts, and carrots along with green bell peppers and baby corn. When you get down to the actual chicken, it’s really not too shabby, advocating an interesting blend of sweet and spicy zest. Two components made this meal undesirable and that was the peanuts and water chestnuts. Kung Pao Chicken is a strange enough of a name. Literally called pinyin gōng bǎo jī dīng, it obtained its name from Ding Baozhen, an official in the late Qing Dynasty. After the Cultural Revolution, it was deemed politically incorrect being then known as “fast-fried chicken cubes” and was not reinstated until the 1980’s. Maybe you will like the salty peanuts in contrast to the peppery chicken but we found it frankly, marginally Mediocre.

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