That's a topic CNN staff and readers have debated -- with a lot of heat -- in the past.
As American-Chinese restaurant Fortune Cookie closes shop in Shanghai this week, after successfully selling U.S.-style Chinese food to locals since opening in 2013 (despite a good run its American owners have said they want to return to the United States), we've decided to revisit journalist Clarissa Wei's previously published impassioned defense of orange chicken and all-American Chinese food.
Yes, I'm actually going to defend orange chicken.