Calgary ginger beef

Canada · North America

Short description: Ginger beef is a restaurant-style fried beef dish with a sticky sweet-hot ginger sauce.
Ingredients: Battered beef strips with ginger, garlic, chiles, soy-based sauce, peppers, and onions.
Cultural note: Associated with Chinese-restaurant menus in the prairie west, it shows how immigrant restaurant cooking adapted to local tastes.
Common misconception: It is not a delicate stir-fry; the familiar version is battered, fried, and sauced.

image credit

creator:: Mack Male
source:: Wikimedia Commons
license:: CC BY-SA 2.0
modified:: Cropped and re-encoded for Gochizu to focus on the sauced beef and reduce background table clutter.