
The Search for General Tso
Film201471 min6.4/10 on TMDB
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Directed by Ian Cheney
The story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Susan Carter
Susan CarterSelf - American historian
Ian CheneyselfPhilip Chiang
Philip ChiangSelf - restaurant ownerAndrew Coe
Andrew CoeSelf - food writerLiang Xiao Jin
Liang Xiao JinSelf - Chinese historianExplore the crew
- Director
- Ian Cheney
- Editor
- Frederick Shanahan
