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

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/news/background/chinese-newyear/calgary.html https://web.archive.org/web/20090330125905/http://cbc.ca/new... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Tso%27s_chicken#Name_and_origins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Tso%27s_chicken#Name_a...