The original Xinjiang Dapan Chicken was made in Shawan County, Xinjiang, and is said to have come from a local halal restaurant; it soon became popular throughout Xinjiang, and almost every household knew how to make it, like the popularity of Sichuan's "hui-pot meat" that every family knows how to make.

The Xinjiang big dish chicken since its inception, soon became popular north and south of the Yangtze River. Everyone knows Xinjiang's big dish chicken, almost food must be called. Chaiwabao, Shawan, Ili chicken is the most famous, into a three-pronged trend. Xinjiang big dish chicken origin of the dispute is also very fierce, Chaiwu Fort and Shawan are not willing to give way, each has its own argument. This dish can be found everywhere in Xinjiang, inexpensive dishes, not only foreigners to Xinjiang must eat dishes, in the mainland is also popular for its unique flavor.

The legend of Xinjiang Dapan Chicken:

Legend has it that in the pre-liberation period, a Sichuan culinary master, Mr. Zhang, came to Xinjiang to escape the war and settled down in Shawan County. He chose to open a small restaurant next to the 312 national highway, to sell fried noodles, mixed noodles for a living, business is sometimes good and sometimes bad. one day in the early 1980s, a long-distance bus driver came to his store to eat, casually to Master Zhang said: "fried noodles, mixed noodles too dry, you give me a fried spicy chicken, put more soup, and then pull some noodles for me to mix with! I'd like to have some noodles to mix with it." This sentence reminds Master Zhang, so a pass ten, ten pass a hundred, this dish into the national reputation of the big dish of chicken.