Talk:Cashew chicken

Believe this is also an authentic chinese dish
Having lived in Hong Kong for five years, I encountered this dish in many settings. My parents tell me that they also encountered this dish in mainland china. I have never heard or tasted an oyster sauce version however, more often it is a penut black sauce. Ambidextros 11:12, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

I have eaten Cashew Chicken in Springfield Missouri at Leong's Tea House and since then at other restaurants. It is very good, however the most recent local versions use breaded deep fried chicken with oyster sauce. Somewhat like calling food "Tex-Mex" we might term this food "Ozark-Oriental".

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two recepies
Someone didn't like the recepie this article provides and added text saying it was wrong. If it truly is, we should be remove the old text. As it stands, the "above recepie", which is just an ingredients list, stands alone. Do the cooking instructions under the link and text apply to the linked information, or the original information from the article? It doesn't read well, and needs to be sorted out. -- Mikeblas 05:28, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Citations needed
The thing about Leong's tea house is all very well, but citations are needed. I have added  -- Dominus 18:28, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Cashew Chicken not Chinese-American
This article is incorrect. Cashew Chicken is not a Chinese-American invention but actually a southern Chinese dish. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.175.73.232 (talk) 06:50, 10 February 2007 (UTC).


 * I agree---this article seems to be about a specific variation of the dish that one restaurant owner made to tailor a traditional Chinese dish to an American regional preference. That may be what the locals there consider Cashew Chicken, but I find it very hard to believe that it's the origin of the real dish "Cashew Chicken" when there are so many other variations that are more traditionally Chinese in nature. I think having this one variation as the definition of Cashew Chicken is misleading, and inappropriate for an encyclopedic article. Bluela 02:17, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

The photo is not accurate
The photo shown is not an accurate depiction of Springfield-style Cashew Chicken. Cashew chicken is a somewhat plain dish with no vegetables. It features a bed of rice with chunks of breaded, deep fried chicken smothered in oyster sauce with cashews and green onions sprinkled on top. The photo looks more like an authentic Chinese dish that has both chicken and cashews in it.

I'm from the Springfield area and I've had cashew chicken from many restaurants, as well as my mom's homemade version. There is little variation in recipe between restaurants except for the sauce. None of them look even remotely like the photo shown. Emily65746 (talk) 15:09, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

As a Springfield resident I agree: This is a picture of chicken stir-fry. Every Chinese restaurant in this area, and there is a lot, make it exactly like Emily describes above--most importantly with the breaded chicken. --Mechphisto (talk) 21:03, 25 August 2008 (UTC)


 * This is probably, then, cashew chicken from another part of North America. It says it was taken in Ottawa, Canada. If you guys are from there and eat this dish, why don't you take a photo of it or ask a friend to do so if you don't own cameras? Badagnani (talk) 21:22, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Cashew chicken is not a Springfield, MO invention
As someone who is from Springfield, MO (and resident there for 25 years) who now lives elsewhere, I can tell you that Cashew Chicken is not originally from Springfield, MO. Springfield-style Cashew Chicken is from Springfield, MO. Everywhere else that I have ordered Cashew Chicken (Kansas City, New York, etc.) has looked much like the picture shown. There are places outside of Springfield, MO that you can actually specifically order "Springfield-style Cashew Chicken" by name (I've had it in Kansas City, and read reports of it appearing in Chicago, Seattle, and Las Vegas)--but it was just modified from regular cashew chicken to appeal to the tastes of the region. Honestly, there should be a "cashew chicken" page, and a "Springfield-style cashew chicken" page--since it is a unique dish that is enormously popular in the region and has spread somewhat. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.81.49.192 (talk) 22:52, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Chicken cashew is very good but, a little bit salty. I like my foo wit no satyness. I would use pork instead of chicken. I am a vary bad spellur sorrwy fore my mistake(s). I lika cheiz too —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.168.8.195 (talk) 02:49, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

March 2009 revisions
The March 11, 2009 New York Times article on Springfield-style cashew chicken presented an opportunity to try and clean up this article a bit, and make clear that Springfield-style is different. As noted by others, the existing picture is clearly not Springfield-style; the article would greatly benefit from a picture more like the one in the NYT, if someone in Springfield could take one! Unless others disagree, I would think the "POV" tag could now be deleted from the article, although certainly another sentence or two about the Chinese/Chinese-American provenance of the stir-fried variety would be a fine addition to the article, if someone can find an appropriate source. --Arxiloxos (talk) 23:44, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

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