In the 1980s, Li, a farmer from Shawan County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, opened a restaurant called Man, which was good at cooking spicy chicken pieces. Once, an employee of a construction company came to eat spicy chicken pieces. Although I think it is delicious, I always feel that the amount is too small. When he saw Li coming out of the backyard with a whole chicken, he asked him to fry the whole chicken for them.

However, the fried chicken pieces are not that big, so Li puts them in a plate full of noodles. After eating, the guests were all hooked, and the guests next door also ordered a large plate of chicken.

It is said that at first, the shopkeeper wrote the recipe on a small black board, which was called "Chili fried chicken". Later, more and more restaurants began to introduce this practice of putting chicken pieces on a big plate, and the reputation of large-plate chicken spread. For a time, many "saute spicy chicken" restaurants appeared on both sides of the national highway in Shawan County.