Why is it called Yangzhou medicinal chicken?

Yangzhou medicated chicken is named after this dish comes from Yangzhou. On the menu in Yangzhou, this dish is usually called "medicated chicken", but it is actually "Yangzhou chicken".

However, there are several different opinions about the specific origin and naming of this dish. There is a saying that this dish was created by Yangzhou chef Zhang in Qing Dynasty. He cooked the local specialty white feather chicken with a variety of Chinese herbal medicines, and finally created this dish with unique taste and high nutritional value. Another way of saying it is that this dish was created by Yangzhou chef Xu Changgui in the 1980s. He combined traditional Chinese medicine culture with cooking skills to make this delicious and healthy medicated chicken.

No matter which statement is true, Yangzhou medicated chicken has become one of the representative dishes in Yangzhou, and its unique taste and nutritional value are also deeply loved by people.