Here’s the Real Story Behind General Tso's Chicken
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- Опубликовано: 20 дек 2016
- General Tso's chicken is a staple in American Chinese restaurants. But the most popular Chinese dish in the United States is virtually unknown in China. Say what? This is the story behind your favorite sweet and spicy, gooey and crunchy mess in a takeout box.
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I imagine a Californian walking into a Chinese market 100 years ago. he is offered a chicken and rice dish and tries it. the guy then asks "what is this sauce with the chicken". the Chinese shop owner hadn't really named his recipe yet but likes to use it on practically everything, so he's like "Uhh, general sauce". in the shop owners thick accent "sauce" sounds like "tso's". the Californian assumed General Tso is some Chinese legend and explained that to his friends when telling them about this amazing food he discovered.
that WOULD make a lot of sense
This probably did happen
Why is she saying "tsow" when it's "tso"
Probably because of the way it's pronounced in Chinese @Lesyk Konecky
@Kerian Halcyon but it's not a chinese dish
I heard that General Tso won't fight anyone because General Tso's chicken.
thanks dog
Maxwell Ebersman
That pun tho...that pun....
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Maxwell Ebersman Nice new Facebook filter
Badum tsss
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well then why would you want it to blow up?
Ayush Thapa its just a metaphor 😅
Me too!! , this channel going to get more subscribers than alltime10s , top5 or all those facts youtubers . Never seen any youtube channel like this one 😊
Oof! I got some bad news my man.
This aged bad lol
One of my all time favourite dishes. I have it at least once a month.
i'm never bored by your videos everything you upload is so interesting
now I want some of that gooey crunchy goodness
General Tao didn't invent this dish?! Nooo! That's impossible!
mugensamurai *tso
its fake news, general tso did invent this dish and right on the battle field, right before the siege of xianyang. The soldiers stopped for a day to collect ingredients while the captains prepare captive chickens for dinner.
He went to war with chickens?
yeah, that is probably incorrect
chickens went to war with him, little they know he was chef excellance
I like General Tso Chicken now and then but I hate how popular sweet flavors are in American Chinese food. The sugar that gets added at some places totally ruins it!
Panda's Orange chicken is a great (albeit extreme) example of this. Basically fried chicken candy
Please consider getting real subtitles/captions. Would be A+ for the deaf/hard of hearing community ♡♡♡
Given it was invented in Taiwan, and eaten in the USA, I doubt mainland China will ever hear of it in the near future.
Don't be too sure about that. I heard they got a guy taking notes on how to develop a knockoff.
a hunanese guy made it though
No one in Taiwan knows it too tbh
its so great to learn the real story of General Tso's Chicken! When chinese people say it's not real chinese i suppose they're both correct and incorrect since it's a Taiwanese dish inspired by Hunan cuisine
its just that the american version is WAY too sweet-the original didnt use any sugar.
This channel give a great story with a great pun.i love it
I love General Tso Chicken, but its almost always way too sweet these days at restaurants. Apparently the original one had zero sugar. I have experimented with recipes to make it at home-many recipes call for 5-8 tables spoons-I like how it turns out with 1.5-2 table spoons of sugar or maple syrup. It is not the original which has no sugar, but it gives just a hint of sweet flavor against the chili peppers, ginger, and garlic. In my opinion, you cant use too much fresh garlic and ginger! I will try to make it with zero sugar next time and see how it turns out.
my favorite from Chinese restaurants. I love general tso's chicken, and seasme chicken 😋.
i can't tell the difference between the two. I feel like most Chinese places make the exact same dish, but with tso's they add a couple peppers
the pmoney experience I like sticky rice too
Don't care where it originated, It's delicious when you find the right place that makes it. I love spicy food.
General tso’s ain’t spicy lmao
@@mingchenwei1978 Some places make the sauce hot and spicy if you ask for it, as well as sesame chicken.
@@mingchenwei1978I usually ask my local Chinese restaurant to make it spicy.
so where can i get the original in the US?
Hm..
Can't tell if joke, or just stupid.
The video said that many people changed the recipe, he isnt joking. It's a serious question.
good luck looking for that. start in ny.
Mai Nguyen the irony
Here is the recipe of a non-americanized version. But I also read somewhere (probably in this article) that the Americans don't like the original taste and vice versa. www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/magazine/04food.t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
Thank you for having a pointer on the map of the world, I honestly had no clue where China and the United States was!
😂😂😂
There are only two groups of people, those who make music and those who make food. Black people make all sorts of modern music and no cuisine, Chinese make all sorts of cuisine and no music.
@@glowndark1 what are you talking about
@@glowndark1 you can't be this ignorant 😅
@@glowndark1my man totally forgot about chicken and waffles
I'm from the Netherlands and have never seen this. I would realy like to try this
Whenever I hit a buffet this is always the first thing to go on my plate. I know it's as far from real Chinese as you can get but it's so damn good!
I recently read an article with a passage I liked about "real Chinese food." (Dan Nosowitz of Atlas Obscura writing about Crab Rangoon)
"American Chinese food is its own cuisine, with its own staples and a reasonably long and fascinating history. There’s a fundamental problem with the concept of authenticity in food, because cuisine is constantly mutating and adapting to new ingredients, new people, new techniques, and new ideas. Mexican food would be completely different without the influence of the Spanish and Arab immigrants and colonists; the tomato is not native to Italy; the chili pepper is not native to Thailand. There are old dishes and there are newer dishes, and that can be an interesting distinction. And there is tasty food and lousy food, but using some concept of authenticity alone as a criteria is a flawed approach."
Never had it, as I'm from the Netherlands and the Chinese food is probiably different. But it sounds and looks very nice.
This is literally (and I REALLY mean literally) my favorite food in the universe!
Watched a documentary on General Tso’s Chicken on Netflix 😊
Hello great big story
so... You guys watched "Searching for General Tso" on Netflix and grabbed some b-roll and a quick interview?
Nope
Mr. Peng totally looks like Haru's dad from Persona 5.
Most Chinese restaurants in America can more specifically/accurately be called Cantonese restaurants. Most of us whose heritage traces back to other parts of China actually aren't familiar with a lot of the dishes they serve.
It’s Diaspora history (which I think is a lot more important than other people and other Asians as well give it credit for.). So it could be considered Cantonese-American food.
Yup
finally! someone answered a life long question of mine
my mom and dad has a chinese and japenese restrount. and let me tell you. General tso chicken and shirmp is my fav
There's a fantastic documentary about exactly this on Netflix called "the search for general tso". Sorry littlebig story, but you guys have barely scratched the surface here. I've seen hundreds of documentaries and that one is definitely right up there. Full recommendation
I never heard of it either in the UK until some American mentioned it
the subtitles are great
The way some people talk about “authentic “ Chinese food, you would think Chinese chefs never invent new recipes, yet they obviously do.
I did not know that. Now I want some Chinese apple pie :(
Literally eating it right now. Was like who was this guy?
Very cool! My grandfather helped bring and popularized lo mein in the United States through his restaurants in NYC & NJ. I'll have to look and see if he had General Chicken on his menu as well!
0:00 I see a typo on the menu!
Well this explains why some chinese foods here are different from regular served foods there... I always came across scrambled eggs and breadcrumb chicken
GUYS turn on the Captions :)
Does anyone know what Restaurant they're interviewing in? I wanna get that OG General Tso's chicken.
General Tso was a real Qing Dynasty general who reconquered Xinjiang from Yakub Beg (who was ousted from Tashkent and later conquered Kashgaria) with the support of local Uyghurs in the late 1870s. (Wade Giles: Tso Tsungtang)
If you ask in the UK for this same stuff you'll get blank looks too. After eating it in the USA i am not terribly disappointed
Many of the Chinese food in America that does not exist in China do exist in the Philippines (beef brocoli, chopsuey, egg rolls, Chowmien noodles cooked in American style, orange chicken....etc.)
The name of the dish is wrong on the menu shown at 0:01, and it should be' 左宗棠雞'
that looks Tsoooo good
Muy interesante.
I saw your Kimchi vid on the CNN app
why white text on white background
you know these editing softwares are easy to allow text borders
I live in North America and I never heard of it
I'm SOOOOO hungry
I love General Tso chicken it’s my favorite BUT BEWARE. It is easy to hide fatty and not good quality meat underneath batter and sauce unlike sliced and sautéed chicken. The restaurants that try to cut corners will give you the less than desireable cuts and hide them under the batter until you bite into it and realize this is no bueno. Having said that, if you go to a good reputable restaurant, General Tso’s chicken is the absolute best dish to me!
If General Tso's chicken is unknown in China, will it be liable to become a Chinese import? I'm guessin' yes. But not fortune cookies. Not even the origami takeout boxes.
Alright! Food from Taiwan my home country over here!
I remember when gbs has 50 k subs
Who doesn't know this in 2018 it's all over RUclips
*_General Tso Wouldn’t Command His Army Because He Was Too Busy Eating His Chicken_*
I have lived in America nearly all my live and never knew what is General Tso chicken
i never heard of it here in the us either lol
I had literally no idea what Gen. Tso's chicken was until I came across Great Big Story
unless you live in China, you've heard of it
now i want REAL GTC!
The captions are funny
I'm having a Chinese-American feast right now lol
1:29
Nothing new, but I just wanted to point out the difference between 蒜 (suàn) and 酸 (suān).
This is Mandarin.
Stomach grooling sound is the way his voice sounds
never heard of it either
The real General Tso was actually a vegetarian!
at the beginning when you describe the Chinese "leadership" fleeing to Taiwan, you should have said "establishment"
its the villian from super chibi knight
You could say Kissinger "kissed up" to it.... HAHAHAHAHA OH I KILL ME
Should come from Taiwan formally Republic of China.
Put the subtitle and read them when the Chinese speaks XD
I saw a full documentary on this!
It was great!!
I’m vegan, so I eat general Tso’s tofu. 😊
Well, you have Colonel Sanders in the USA. We have an Asian General Tso!
HAHAHAH I GET IT-
So if I'm not eating the real thing where do I get it
the map at 1:37 is so outdated
Now Americans are crazy about Szechuan Sauce.
General Tso's Chicken wow youtube now know what i ordered for dinner
this was weird because where I live, we pronounce "Tso" as "Chow"
eskipotato Its pretty much called General (insert Chinese name here)’s Chicken
pure white subtitles are very amateurish, we lose them in the background repeatedly throughout the video. Anything past a middle school presentation, you should put a black border around the letters so the are legible no matter what the video shows.
Turn on subtitles when he speaks Chinese
Mandarin
Jamie Zhu lol
Mandarín
So, can we get the original, non-Americanized recipe?
its CLOSE
I'm Chinese and I didn't even know this existed
Wth my school serves this with mango sauce 😂😂😂
Lucky
just ate some general tso while watching this
a Panda Express favourite
Panda Express is not real Chinese food
@@chengbros6101 It's fusion food (American-Chinese) like the items sold at all P.F. Chang's.
I thought the dish isn't form china and is available in Chinese American restaurants those people where wrong general tso chicken is an authentic Chinese dish
General tsao ni ma
For once us Taiwanese was finally mentioned! Great!
Technically, Taiwan is part of China
Yeah right and donald trump is totallly not gonna build a wall
+Mareizia Actually, most countries don't recognize Taiwan as an independent country, including the U.S
Yep, because China is so huge now that no large country wants to actually stand up for Taiwan and risk a conflict.
technically, it is hunanese,not taiwanese.
It looks like orange chickens brother
all my life I've been pronouncing my favorite dish wrong smh
The color of their sauce makes the chicken look unappetizin honestly but I’d try it a tad you know just to see how it tastes remember just a TAD XD
I've never heard of General Tso's Chicken...
do taiwwannnnn more
When your mother tongue is Chinese but you still read the subtitles.
"the most popular Chinese dish in the United States is virtually unknown in China. Say what?"
Yea, that's because Taiwan (the country where General Tso was created) is not China.
Vincent Chung Chinese dish, as coming from a "chinese" restaurant, so most people think it's chinese. The point of the video was to show that it's not actually Chinese. They never said it was Chinese. It like if they make a video about Apple pie saying it's the most American dish than they'll go one and talk about how it was not invented in the USA in the first place.
I hope you get hooked on phonics for Christmas, dude.
Taiwanese independent believer could be crazy sometime, regardless of China printed on their passport.
Ironically, there isn't a country called Taiwan.
The whole point is that two different regions were used. This would be conceptually similar to people interviewing Alaskans asking about a dish famous in Texas, paralleling the idea that Taiwan and China are within the same country.
If it makes a difference, you people are all the same. Taiwan people like to praise themselves as being superior to their communist counterparts, but from my American perspective and experiences you all are the same bottom feeders.
My dad's Hunanese.
I still won't ever try it
I'm Chinese and the reason i don't like this dish is because most restaurants make the dish so that there is more batter than chicken.
Symbol of human flavour😳
OMG that explains why my parents (they're Chinese) was like the frick is that when I ask then to make it for an American friend. They are great chefs btw :V