"Left Chicken" became popular because of left. Zuo was born in Xiangyin County and was a famous general in the late Qing Dynasty. He has served as Governor of Zhejiang, Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Governor of Liangjiang and Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang. Zuo loves to eat chicken all his life, and he likes to fry it crispy. Every time he leads the troops to win the battle, he always treats the roast chicken and the three armies. Because he led the troops to recover Xinjiang, which is famous at home and abroad, Zuo became an influential and intimidating China person in the west, and Zuo Chicken became the representative dish of China cuisine.
The inventor of Zuoji is Peng Changgui, who studied under the famous Tan chef Cao. His cooking is based on Hunan cuisine, Huaiyang cuisine and Lingnan cuisine, and he is creative. /kloc-In Taipei City, Taiwan Province Province in the 1970s, Jiang Jingguo, the then premier, worked late one day and took his entourage to Pengyuan Restaurant opened by Peng Changgui in the evening.
The restaurant was originally prepared to close, but all the high-end ingredients were used up that day, leaving only chicken legs to use. Peng Changgui had to improvise. He boned the chicken leg, diced it, seeded it, and cut the pepper into sections. First, he fried the chicken pieces and drained them. Then, he mixed them with pepper, chicken nuggets, soy sauce, vinegar, minced garlic, Jiang Mo and chopped green onion. Finally, he thickened them and drenched them with sesame oil, which became a new dish. After eating, Jiang Jingguo was very delicious. When asked about the name of the dish, Peng Changgui improvised and said that it was a kind of fried chicken nugget that Zuo, a famous Xiang soldier in the late Qing Dynasty, loved to eat. He borrowed Zuo's name to bless this dish, so this dish was called "Zuo Chicken" and became Pengyuan's signature dish. From the next day, Jiang Jingguo also publicized the delicacy of this dish to other dignitaries, which caused a sensation.