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The Search for General Tso

★ 6.4 TMDB Rating · 58 votes

From New York City to the farmlands of the Midwest, there are 50,000 Chinese restaurants in the U.S., yet one dish in particular has conquered the American culinary landscape with a force befitting its military moniker—“General Tso’s Chicken.” But who was General Tso and how did this dish become so ubiquitous? Ian Cheney’s delightfully insightful documentary charts the history of Chinese Americans through the surprising origins of this sticky, sweet, just-spicy-enough dish that we’ve adopted as our own.

Director
Ian Cheney
Release date
Apr 20, 2014
Original language
English
Origin
United States, Taiwan

Cast of The Search for General Tso

  • Susan Carter

    Self - American historian

  • Portrait of Ian Cheney

    Ian Cheney

    self

  • Philip Chiang

    Self - restaurant owner

  • Andrew Coe

    Self - food writer

  • Liang Xiao Jin

    Self - Chinese historian

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United States
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