Explaining General Tso's Chicken

[djfinex]

yes, there are stereotypical "chop suey" which "chicken balls" restaurants in Canada and the US, but if you know where to go, or if you know how to cook, the authentic stuff is easy to find in any large city with a Chinese population. While I was raised eating genuine Cantonese, Hunan, and Szechuan, every so often, I get the craving for tacky North American style Chinese food.

[freeheretic111]

More Chinese restaurants here in the USA than the big fast food chains? Wow, I had no idea. General Chou's Chicken is my favoite Chinese dish.

[fiji9000]

Is there any traditional Chinese food served at ones local Chinese restaurant?

[freeheretic111]

@fiji9000 It depends on the restaurant and where you live. You can always ask them to prepare you something real and they might but beware the staff not being honest with you.

[BleedForTheWorld]

At the time, a good friend introduced me to General Tso back in '04. I forget the month but it's the best chicken I've ever tasted.

[Kronikwisdom]

i love general tso chicken its the best dish i have ever ate !!!! i don't consider whether the food taste better because its Chinese or American im just fuckin hungry, you know what i'm sayin?

[tsnowice]

American Chinese food, means it fit most American taste bud, we also have this dishes, but not as common as for American, we have all kind.

You know Chinese eat anything almost

[buffdaddy76]

i have general tso chicken in the uk every week we order from work but its a lot more to it than american because it has brociley mushrooms carrots onions and seasonal chinaese veg as well its great

[777gypsyboy]

There is no such thing of american food

America calls hamburgers and hot dogs american . There not there german

American food is steak and potatoes thats it

[Khanstant]

Just call it American food.

[XtcRaver420]

Either way, like she said, i like this dish. Who cares if it's not "authentic"

[gluvuv]

The American-Chinese food is nothing like Chinese food at all.

[weirdoweirdo]

I don't mind if critics categorize General Tso Chicken as part of American-Chinese cuisine. I find certain remarks about "authenticity" of ethnic cuisine rather annoying. In Chinatowns I see Chinese restaurants making these colorful and delicious dishes, and who has the ultimate authority to say what the people are making there are not "real" Chinese food? Carry that reasoning to the extreme the Chinese cooks in those places aren't really "Chinese" at all.