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The Search for General Tso

The Search for General Tso

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 20, 2014

Runtime

1h 11m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

64%

Original Title

The Search for General Tso

Production Companies

Sundance Selects, Wicked Delicate Films

Director

Ian Cheney

Description

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.