🇨🇳🇺🇸 My dad's General Tso's Chicken (左宗棠鸡) - A Chinese American Icon

Published July 21, 2023, 7:05 p.m. by Bethany

Watch Daddy Lau teach us how to make General Tso's Chicken, a dish he's made thousands of times in his 50 years as a Chinese chef.

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🍴 RECIPE + INGREDIENTS🍴

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https://madewithlau.com/recipes/general-tsos-chicken

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🔗 LINKS MENTIONED 🔗

The Search for General Tso: https://amzn.to/3bF7rZC

On Wok Hei: http://youtu.be/gKw8jMn9Zmo

Additional recommended reading/watching

Omsom's photo essay on why they don't use the word "authentic": https://www.instagram.com/p/CMSl-DnBAc4/

@ChineseCookingDemystified on "Why Chinese Food uses so much from the Americas" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irrRrr1FvmQ

Atlas Obscura on how Monterey's once-thriving Chinese community was forced out - https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-chinese-fishermen-helped-build-california

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- Electric Burner: https://geni.us/electricburner

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