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Re:U of Toronto Acquires the World's Largest Collection of C... by schwap on Friday February 05, 2016 @12:26PM (#11042930)
Other particularities I've noticed are the lack of Orange Chicken in Canada and the lack of Ginger Beef in the states (they don't know what they're missing).
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Re:U of Toronto Acquires the World's Largest Collection of C... by danielki on Friday February 05, 2016 @01:04PM (#11043293)
From my understanding, this is because neither of these are actually true "Chinese" dishes,. Ginger Beef was "invented" by a Chinese immigrant in Calgary in the 1970s [0], whereas the westernized Orange Chicken is actually a variation on General Tso's chicken, which was invented/popularized in New York in the early 1970s [1].

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20090330125905/http://cbc.ca/new...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Tso%27s_chicken#Name_a...

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