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While Asian cuisines have significantly enriched American food culture, some dishes we think of as "traditional" actually have surprising American roots. Beyond just being delicious, these American-born Asian cuisines represent immigrant ingenuity, cultural exchange and, in many cases, adaptation. Orange chicken: This dish of chopped, battered and fried chicken pieces coated in a sweet and tangy orange-flavored chili sauce is reportedly of Californian origin.