Posted on 12/02/2016 5:23:03 PM PST by iowamark
The chef behind one of America's most popular Chinese food dishes has died.
Chef Peng Chang-kuei was 98 when he died on Nov. 30 from pneumonia, according to the Epoch Times.
Peng first made General Tso's chicken in the 1950s, when he was working as a chef for the Taiwanese government, according to Taiwan Business Topics. When U.S. Navy Admiral Arthur W. Radford visited Taiwan in 1954 to lead a summit of high-ranking government officials, Peng decided to expand on the usual banquet menu. One of his innovations, a breaded and stir-fried chicken dish in a sweet and spicy sauce, was so popular that the chef was asked what it was called. On the spot, Peng coined "General Tso's Chicken," according to Taiwan Business Topics, after a celebrated war hero from Hunan, his home province...
"Dishes like General Tso's and orange chicken are the reasons why Chinese immigrant families in the U.S. were able to provide for their families," Panda Restaurant Group chief marketing officer Andrea Cherng told NBC News at the time. "The beauty of it now is that this American Chinese cuisine, instead of it being a means of survival for one family, can be celebrated as incredible entrepreneurship."
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Joe’s General Tso’s Chicken
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/197394/joes-general-tsos-chicken/
Thanks!
I thought it was personally made for a famous Chinese general back in the Ch'in Dynasty or something?
For more than 50 years, the poor General never got to eat his chicken because everyone else beat him to it.... tsk, tsk...
Chef Peng Chang-kuei made a great contribution to mankind! May God’s Holy Angels escort him to the Heavenly Banquet!
“I thought it was personally made for a famous Chinese general back in the Ch’in Dynasty or something?”
No. Just named for him.
It was made for a US Admiral.
I saw a thread on this a little while ago. Now, here it is two hours later and I’m reading about it again.
Like the food.
It looks like that was just a story. Everybody knows that most Chinese dishes made in the US are recent inventions.
I’m surprised that an actual chinese cook invented it.
Why did General Tso lose every battle?
Because he was chicken....
OMG, happening to see this on the list on opening the “general” page.
Ode to my old mentor, who ordered General Tso’s chicken whenever work called for take-out!
General Tso's EelGeneral Tso's Chicken
General Tso's Squid
General Tso's Parakeet
General Tso's Cat
General Tso's Dog
General Tso's Horse
If the chef cooks it sweet, I leave it on the plate. Only the spicy kind is good!
Aw man. That is my favorite Chinese dish though. Much better with noodles than rice.
Yesterday the maker of the Big Mac, today this! Who’s next?
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