Recipe of the week: General Tso’s chicken (for two)

General Tso Tsung-tang is a legend in China’s Hunan province, but the dish named after him is not.

General Tso Tsung-tang is a legend in China’s Hunan province, but the dish named after him isn’t, said Fuchsia Dunlop in Saveur. That’s because it was created in Taiwan by a chef who fled Hunan during the Chinese civil war. Once, Peng Chang-kuei told me he brought the dish with him when he opened a New York restaurant in the ’70s.

General Tso’s chicken (for two)

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