Spiced chicken with peanuts is one of the special local dishes of Chengdu. This dish , while very spicy, is popular with westerners as the taste is similar to sweet and sour. The name for this dish (Gongbao ji ding) stems from a Sichuan legend about a rich man who always asked his chef to cook this dish for visitors. This man went on to become a top official in Sichuan (A Gongbao) hence, the dish associated with him was named this way! Another way to sample this dish is with pork meat instead of chicken.