General Tso's Chicken

[Digital*Firefly]

Why can't you buy General Tso's sauce in the store that tastes like the kind you have at the chinese buffets? I've found 2 sauces so far: Iron Chef and Wegman's Asia BBQ sauce. Both were the most disgusting things I've ever tasted and not even close.

[Ezekiel]

Cut your dog and rub your food on it.

[Blank]

Cut your dog and rub it on your food.

Fixed for hilarity.

[Arandar]

I think its a secret business recipe. Even though they are all competing with each other I think all the Chinese places all agreed to never tell the secrets of the sauces and stuff they use. Aside from the fact that they have a deep frier and most people probably don't, notice how when you try to make Chinese food it NEVER tastes like the take out kind? I know a deep frier would help, but not everything is dipped in hot oil.

[Erin]

Because General Tso's Chicken is overly-sweet disgusting shit?

[Magnum 50 Cal]

Why can't you buy General Tso's sauce in the store that tastes like the kind you have at the chinese buffets? I've found 2 sauces so far: Iron Chef and Wegman's Asia BBQ sauce. Both were the most disgusting things I've ever tasted and not even close.I tried making my own, but I can't get it right. I know it's got honey in it.

[Gene Starwind]

Sauce:
1/2 cup cornstarch
1/4 cup water
1+1/2 tsp minced garlic
1+1/2 tsp minced ginger root
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup white vinegar
1/4 cup cooking wine
1+1/2 cup hot chicken broth
1 tsp monosodium glutamate

Mmm, google.

[Fierce Llama]

Because General Tso's Chicken is overly-sweet disgusting shit?

die. now.

[Digital*Firefly]

Sauce:
1/2 cup cornstarch
1/4 cup water
1+1/2 tsp minced garlic
1+1/2 tsp minced ginger root
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup white vinegar
1/4 cup cooking wine
1+1/2 cup hot chicken broth
1 tsp monosodium glutamate

Mmm, google.

I tried that recipe and it's not the same.

[Blank]

Because General Tso's Chicken is overly-sweet disgusting shit?

Woah woah woah, excuuuuuuuuse me princess.

Go enjoy your chunks of sushi and fat, dripping steaks and leave me to my meal.

Christ women.

[MoteLife]

fuck you now i want chinese food.

[Erin]

Woah woah woah, excuuuuuuuuse me princess.

Go enjoy your chunks of sushi and fat, dripping steaks and leave me to my meal.

Christ women.

Ew, I don't eat red meat.

[MoteLife]

i have yet to meet a woman who likes general tso's.

[fungus]

i have asked the same question many times... ive found a recipe thats as close as im going to get without that insider information.

1/2 cup water
1 cup chicken broth
1/8 cup vinegar
1/4 cup cornstarch
1 cup sugar
2 TB dark soy sauce
2 TB sesame oil
1 tsp chili paste, or more if desired
1 clove garlic (minced)

I go a little light on the sugar and heavy on the chili paste
mix... boil... reduce heat... let thicken... always stirring...

[Flavius]

Must be a guy thing...

I love General Tso's...the hotter, the better.

[gk128]

I don't like the Tso's that much. I love the Spicy, but I'd rather just ave Boneless Spare Ribs.

[hoyle1911]

Was there really a General Tso?

Chinks like me learned about Guan Yu, Liu Bei, Ma Teng, Cao Cao, and King Qin. Tso got the short end of the history stick. Reduced to a damn chicken recipe.

[Badass Penguin]

Was there really a General Tso?

Chinks like me learned about Guan Yu, Liu Bei, Ma Teng, Cao Cao, and King Qin. Tso got the short end of the history stick. Reduced to a damn chicken recipe.

But still fucking good chicken.

General Tso could beat the shit out of Colonel Sanders any day.

[Emptythought]

Ew, I don't eat red meat.
are you allergic? or just don't like it. i actually know a few people who are allergic or get really sick if they eat red meat.

and mote, my mom can eat more of that shit than i can.

[Blank]

Must be a guy thing...

I love General Tso's...the hotter, the better.

Agreed to the maximum efficiency.

[MoteLife]

i like a tiny bit more hot, with a little bit less sweet.

[EvilWall]

i like a tiny bit more hot, with a little bit less sweet.

Yes, I have made this dish before. Without a doubt using less sugar as well as using real sugar is the way to go.

[Ezekiel]

Agreed to the maximum efficiency.

Double quoted for infinite truth.

And I'm hungry as fucking hell right now.

[Blank]

Double quoted for infinite truth.

And I'm hungry as fucking hell right now.

Dude, just checking up on you. It's been a few hours. Did you eat yet?

GO FUCKING EAT, MAN!

[Magnum 50 Cal]

Must be a guy thing...

I love General Tso's...the hotter, the better.I love when they put that big red pepper in it. It's so hot it makes you cry, sweat, and breathe fire.

[Magnum 50 Cal]

Was there really a General Tso?

Chinks like me learned about Guan Yu, Liu Bei, Ma Teng, Cao Cao, and King Qin. Tso got the short end of the history stick. Reduced to a damn chicken recipe. HaHaHa :smt082 too funny, I got to put this in my sig

[Ichiban]

Was there really a General Tso?

Chinks like me learned about Guan Yu, Liu Bei, Ma Teng, Cao Cao, and King Qin. Tso got the short end of the history stick. Reduced to a damn chicken recipe.

funny what a few seconds on google can do (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A59302-2002Apr16)

[EvilWall]

All of my material is fresh, and soiled with melted butter.

[Kir0s]

Hot food makes my allergies flare up...and not the sniffly nose and swollen eyes allergies. I'm talking hives all over my chest, neck, itching irritated skin along with possible chance of anaphylaxis.

[arefx]

you can never find teriyake sauce either. wtf? its definatly a conspiracy the asains have.

[Erin]

you can never find teriyake sauce either. wtf? its definatly a conspiracy the asains have.

I have a harder time finding pesto than teriyaki in super markets. Teriyaki is just gonna be wherever soy sauce is, and then it depends on what company you like.


And, I'm being unfair to General Tso's Chicken. There actually is one restraurant where I really enjoy theirs. However, they use all white-meat chicken (rather than the usual fatty dark meat) and use more of a tempura breading to fry it in, then the sauce is lighter and spicier, served with half-sauteed green beans.

It's yummy.

[Ichiban]

I have a harder time finding pesto than teriyaki in super markets. Teriyaki is just gonna be wherever soy sauce is, and then it depends on what company you like.


And, I'm being unfair to General Tso's Chicken. There actually is one restraurant where I really enjoy theirs. However, they use all white-meat chicken (rather than the usual fatty dark meat) and use more of a tempura breading to fry it in, then the sauce is lighter and spicier, served with half-sauteed green beans.

It's yummy.

This thread is almost making me want to get General Tso's chicken instead of Chipotle

[GH33DA]

General Tso could beat the shit out of Colonel Sanders any day.

Thanks for the image.

[Blank]

I have a harder time finding pesto than teriyaki in super markets. Teriyaki is just gonna be wherever soy sauce is, and then it depends on what company you like.


And, I'm being unfair to General Tso's Chicken. There actually is one restraurant where I really enjoy theirs. However, they use all white-meat chicken (rather than the usual fatty dark meat) and use more of a tempura breading to fry it in, then the sauce is lighter and spicier, served with half-sauteed green beans.

It's yummy.

We have this local place called The Crownery that does the same thing with theirs, they use a very sweet sauce compared to the General Tso most of you relate to. Top that with their sesame seeds and a mound of rice and I'm in heaven.

[Ezekiel]

We have this local place called The Crownery that does the same thing with theirs, they use a very sweet sauce compared to the General Tso most of you relate to. Top that with their sesame seeds and a mound of rice and I'm in heaven.

JESUS CHRIST WILL YOU ALL STOP. Why do you all have to start talking about this for the 2 weeks im going to be dead broke?...


DELETE THIS THREAD SO I STOP READING IT

[Erin]

Man, now I wanna go to the East Cafe. Thankfully, I'm going home to CT tomorrow, so maybe I can get takeout for dinner.

Their Chicken Satay and Shao Mai are amazing too.

[Blank]

JESUS CHRIST WILL YOU ALL STOP. Why do you all have to start talking about this for the 2 weeks im going to be dead broke?...


DELETE THIS THREAD SO I STOP READING IT

I asked if you ate bitch!

[Ezekiel]

Well damnit, I made my dad go out and get us Chinese for dinner so I can have some of my sweet, sweet (and spicy! LOL!) Mr. Tso.

Now I'm waiting in humongoid anticipation.

[SGMonkey]

Why doesn't one of us just infiltrate the employment of a Chinese restaurant, gain the secret of the recipe, and disperse it among the Tso-yearning populus?


Do we have anybody with the ability to turn Asian at will? :idea:

[Magnum 50 Cal]

I just had Tso's on friday, I got it from the Canton house and it's not as good as Dragon Garden.

[effingsniper]

Every shopping plaza here in town has a chinese take-out joint in it. Tso's is my favorite take-out dish to get.

my friends mother is korean and she makes this awesome orange peel beef.

[nekobun]

There's a Chinese place in the store where I work, and their General Tso's is weak. I need to find a better source.

[Oomba]

There's a Chinese place in the store where I work, and their General Tso's is weak. I need to find a better source.

Yo man, I'll hook you up.

[MoteLife]

Every shopping plaza here in town has a chinese take-out joint in it. Tso's is my favorite take-out dish to get.

my friends mother is korean and she makes this awesome orange peel beef.

orange peel everything asian tastes like butt to me.