The Search for General Tso

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The Search for General Tso (2014)

Directed by Ian Cheney

Documentary · 1h 11m

From New York City to the farmlands of the Midwest, there are 50,000 Chinese restaurants in the U.S., yet one dish in particular has conquered the American culinary landscape with a force befitting its military moniker—“General Tso’s Chicken.” But who was General Tso and how did this dish become so ubiquitous? Ian Cheney’s delightfully insightful documentary charts the history of Chinese Americans through the surprising origins of this sticky, sweet, just-spicy-enough dish that we’ve adopted as our own.

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Cast

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Susan Carter Self - American historian Ian Cheney self
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Philip Chiang Self - restaurant owner
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Andrew Coe Self - food writer
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Liang Xiao Jin Self - Chinese historian

Crew

Director
Ian Cheney
Editor
Frederick Shanahan

Details

Release date
2014-04-20
Runtime
1h 11m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
China, Taiwan, United States of America
Production
Sundance Selects, Wicked Delicate Films