The Search for General Tso

Name: The Search for General Tso
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2014
Duration: 71 min
Rating: 6.422

2014 · 71 min

Documentary

★ 6.4

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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.

Crew

Director Ian Cheney

Cast

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Susan Carter
Self - American historian
Ian Cheney
self
P
Philip Chiang
Self - restaurant owner
A
Andrew Coe
Self - food writer
L
Liang Xiao Jin
Self - Chinese historian

Crew

Director — Ian Cheney

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