Is Mar Far Chicken actually a Chinese dish or something we made up?

Question

And do Chinese fry Chinese food like we do?

Answer 1

I think this is a "Chinese" dish available only in the US. It's most likely an "Americanized" version of a traditional Chinese dish to suits American tastes.

Here's the recipe though...

MAR FAR CHICKEN

Ingredients:

1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup soy sauce
5 ounces fermented bean curd
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 egg
3 lbs chickens, cut up
flour, as needed to coat
oil (for frying)

METHOD:

Mix first 6 ingredients together. Stir in chicken.
Marinate up to 24 hours.

Coat chicken pieces in flour and fry until cooked through.

Answer 2

Mar Far Chicken originated in Southern Oregon. And yes, through my Google research found that the Chinese dish I loved growing up was only from our local area not China. What do you expect from a 93% white ignorant town. LOL! It is a deep fried breaded chicken piece (a bit bigger than a chicken nugget) which tasted as though the breading had sesame seeds and I crave it all of the time. The best place of all was the original China Boat in Central Point, OR. Mr. Yee made the best "pink sauce" (a sweet shrimp sauce) as well as pork fried rice!

Answer 3

Mafa Chicken Recipe

Answer 4

I have never heard of this "Mar Far Chicken", but there's a Tianjin snack called "Mar Far".

"Mar Far" is a very crunchy snack made with deep fried dough, sesame seed and usually garlic flavoured. It's a strangely wonderful combination of salty & sweet. They are usually long and intertwine.
See picture: http://www.mafa-ryuka.com/
(Woo~ you can kill someone with this giant one! lol)
http://photo3.fotolog.net.cn/userimages/53/89/j/jumpblue/10/500_9qiRoiPv.jpg

I think that's where the chicken dish got its name. Anyway, "Mar" just mean "sesame". "Far" is "flower", for everything that rises, expand or open up when you cook it.

I just googled it to see what it is. It's just fried chicken, isn't it? Of course we have fried chicken and they come in many flavours, but it's simply called "Fried Chicken". There's a Japanese dish that's almost identical, the name - "Fried Chicken". I guess all cultures have cravings for fried chicken.

It's not like it's an "official" Chinese dish, but you can't say it's completely made up.

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Answer 6

i think its made up.