Which common Chinese dishes are actually American Chinese?

The most famous is probably not a dish, but a snack.

Fortune cookies were invented by Americans somewhere in California. The most likely origin are from Japanese Americans, but the concept was most prominently used by the Chinese Americans who later added things such as the lucky numbers and the paper that promises some pithy response.

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The other one I know is orange chicken

This is a completely Chinese American dish, as there isn’t even a Chinese translation of the dish. You’ll probably only find this dish in Panda Express.

The next is General Tso’s Chicken. Called 左宗棠鸡 in Chinese, there is no record of the dish in Hunan, which is the home town of Zuo Zongtang.

It is very likely the dish is Chinese American, and not Chinese.