The Search for General Tso
2014·1h 11m
6.5/ 10 (57 votes)
Documentary
Overview
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.
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Director
Ian Cheney
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Susan Carter
Self - American historian
Ian Cheney
self
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Philip Chiang
Self - restaurant owner
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Andrew Coe
Self - food writer
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Liang Xiao Jin
Self - Chinese historian
Details
Language
en
Status
Released
