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
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well then why would you want it to blow up?
Ayush Thapa its just a metaphor 😅
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This aged bad lol
i'm never bored by your videos everything you upload is so interesting
One of my all time favourite dishes. I have it at least once a month.
now I want some of that gooey crunchy goodness
This channel give a great story with a great pun.i love it
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 ♡♡♡
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&
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."
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.
Given it was invented in Taiwan, and eaten in the USA, I doubt mainland China will ever hear of it in the near future.
Michael Hartman They will, if the guy gives the recipe.
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 is literally (and I REALLY mean literally) my favorite food in the universe!
the subtitles are great
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
finally! someone answered a life long question of mine
Does anyone know what Restaurant they're interviewing in? I wanna get that OG General Tso's chicken.
Mr. Peng totally looks like Haru's dad from Persona 5.
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.
Hello great big story
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
Never had it, as I'm from the Netherlands and the Chinese food is probiably different. But it sounds and looks very nice.
Watched a documentary on General Tso’s Chicken on Netflix 😊
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 did not know that. Now I want some Chinese apple pie :(
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
GUYS turn on the Captions :)
I saw your Kimchi vid on the CNN app
my mom and dad has a chinese and japenese restrount. and let me tell you. General tso chicken and shirmp is my fav
Literally eating it right now. Was like who was this guy?
The name of the dish is wrong on the menu shown at 0:01, and it should be' 左宗棠雞'
so... You guys watched "Searching for General Tso" on Netflix and grabbed some b-roll and a quick interview?
Nope
that looks Tsoooo good
Well this explains why some chinese foods here are different from regular served foods there... I always came across scrambled eggs and breadcrumb chicken
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
why white text on white background
you know these editing softwares are easy to allow text borders
0:00 I see a typo on the menu!
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.)
Muy interesante.
I'm having a Chinese-American feast right now lol
The captions are funny
now i want REAL GTC!
I'm SOOOOO hungry
Stomach grooling sound is the way his voice sounds
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.
The way some people talk about “authentic “ Chinese food, you would think Chinese chefs never invent new recipes, yet they obviously do.
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)
I remember when gbs has 50 k subs
You could say Kissinger "kissed up" to it.... HAHAHAHAHA OH I KILL ME
General Tso's Chicken wow youtube now know what i ordered for dinner
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!
Put the subtitle and read them when the Chinese speaks XD
I live in North America and I never heard of it
i never heard of it here in the us either lol
Alright! Food from Taiwan my home country over here!
The real General Tso was actually a vegetarian!
So, can we get the original, non-Americanized recipe?
*_General Tso Wouldn’t Command His Army Because He Was Too Busy Eating His Chicken_*
So if I'm not eating the real thing where do I get it
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!
Who doesn't know this in 2018 it's all over RUclips
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
I have lived in America nearly all my live and never knew what is General Tso chicken
Well, you have Colonel Sanders in the USA. We have an Asian General Tso!
HAHAHAH I GET IT-
never heard of it either
just ate some general tso while watching this
its the villian from super chibi knight
at the beginning when you describe the Chinese "leadership" fleeing to Taiwan, you should have said "establishment"
Now Americans are crazy about Szechuan Sauce.
It looks like orange chickens brother
Why did he say maybe chicken
this was weird because where I live, we pronounce "Tso" as "Chow"
eskipotato Its pretty much called General (insert Chinese name here)’s Chicken
the map at 1:37 is so outdated
When your mother tongue is Chinese but you still read the subtitles.
0:42 bro lost his social credit 💀💀💀💀💀
Wth my school serves this with mango sauce 😂😂😂
Lucky
Great now I want fucking panda express
ITheSavageMan
1:29
Nothing new, but I just wanted to point out the difference between 蒜 (suàn) and 酸 (suān).
This is Mandarin.
Should come from Taiwan formally Republic of China.
I've never heard of General Tso's Chicken...
🥰
Symbol of human flavour😳
all my life I've been pronouncing my favorite dish wrong smh
its CLOSE
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
I'm Chinese and I didn't even know this existed
Best food ever
Isnt It tao?
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.
"a bunch of"
Turn on subtitles when he speaks Chinese
Mandarin
Jamie Zhu lol
Mandarín
My dad's Hunanese.
What's the real recipe?
Rogue Of Life don't worry about it
do taiwwannnnn more
I thought it was General Toe’s