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Inventor of General Tso's Chicken dies in Taipei at age 98
Taiwan News ^
| 12/2/2016
| Keoni Everington
Posted on 12/02/2016 7:30:28 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
Chef Peng Chang-kuei (彭長貴), the founder of the famous Hunan-style restaurant chain Peng's Garden Hunan Restaurant (彭園湘菜館) and inventor of the world famous Chinese dish General Tso's Chicken, died on Nov. 30 at the age of 98 from Pneumonia.
A native of Changsha, Hunan Province, Peng began training at the age of 13 under the tutelage of the famous Hunan chef Cao Jing-chen (曹藎臣), who was the family chef of Tan Yan-kai (譚延闓), the prime minister of the Nationalist government from 1926 to 1928. After WWII, he was put in charge of running Nationalist government banquets, and in 1949 he fled to Taiwan after the Nationalist forces were defeated by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War.
According to an interview with the China Times, Peng says that his most famous dish was created in 1952 during a four-day visit by U.S. Seventh Fleet commander Admiral Arthur W. Radford. After three days, he had served the guests most of his repertoire of dishes, so to try and mix things up a bit, he decided to chop some chicken into big chunks, fry it to a golden hue and then added a different combination of sauce and seasoning to create a new dish.
The admiral was so impressed with the dish that he asked Peng what it was called, he thought quickly on his feet and said "General Tso's Chicken" (左宗棠雞).
Peng chose the name to honor General Tso, a famous military leader from Hunan who helped put down the Taiping Rebellion as well as other rebellions in the 1800s during the Qing Dynasty. He was well respected not only for his successes on the battlefield, but also for his contributions to Chinese agricultural science and education.
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chinese; chinesefood; eat; food; generaltsoschicken; obituary; restaurant
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To: Buckeye McFrog
The Chinese do love them some chicken:
(Going Out Of Business in less than 50 days)
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12/02/2016 8:13:09 AM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: TakebackGOP
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posted on
12/02/2016 8:13:12 AM PST
by
HombreSecreto
(The life of a repo man is always intense)
To: Buckeye McFrog
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posted on
12/02/2016 8:13:23 AM PST
by
Gamecock
(Gun owner. Christian. Pro-American. Pro Law and Order. I am in the basket of deplorables.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
If people all over the world are eating General Tso’s chicken, what’s the general eating?
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12/02/2016 8:15:56 AM PST
by
IronJack
To: dfwgator
So General Tso outranked Colonel Sanders.He also outranked Captain Crunch.
To: Daffynition
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12/02/2016 8:34:05 AM PST
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txnativegop
(Hey! Libturds! You got Trumped!)
To: Buckeye McFrog
This is good stuff, just ask anyone waddling out of the All You Can Eat China Buffet.
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12/02/2016 8:34:34 AM PST
by
bigbob
(We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Anyone who gave the world General Tso’s Chicken is a great, great man.
RIP from a grateful palate.
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12/02/2016 8:39:05 AM PST
by
Skooz
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To: dfwgator
Col. Sanders mission was to infiltrate North American palates.
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12/02/2016 8:57:19 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
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To: Daffynition
Hahahahahahahahaha! I love it!
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12/02/2016 8:58:22 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
To: HombreSecreto
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12/02/2016 8:59:10 AM PST
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Rebelbase
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To: blackbetty59
Not an owl. It’s a golden eagle.
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12/02/2016 9:19:46 AM PST
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Fantasywriter
(Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
To: dfwgator
Jim Deligatti died from eating General Tso's Chicken. Peng Chang-kuei (彭長貴)died from eating a Big Mac.
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12/02/2016 9:21:18 AM PST
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MIchaelTArchangel
(Leftists are destroyers of everything good.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Most surprising revelation to me was that there actually WAS a General Tso.I know of at least two Big Macs.
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12/02/2016 9:32:52 AM PST
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Libloather
(Hillary - the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
To: IronJack
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12/02/2016 9:45:00 AM PST
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Celtic Conservative
(CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
To: Buckeye McFrog
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12/02/2016 9:48:11 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: MIchaelTArchangel
hmmmm......gives me a brilliant idea....
The Tso Mac!
Two General Tso’s sauced chicken patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a Sesame Seed bun with a rice cake dividing the two patties.
I want to live to be 98!
To: blackbetty59
That’s an owl? Looks like a hawk or something... What kind of owl?
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12/02/2016 12:26:50 PM PST
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ro_dreaming
(Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
To: GreenHornet
So General Tso outranked Colonel Sanders.
He also outranked Captain Crunch.
But is on par with the Admiral, no?
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12/02/2016 12:28:07 PM PST
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ro_dreaming
(Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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