Movie

The Search for General Tso

★ 6.5/10 · 57 votes 2014 1h 11m Released

Documentary

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.

Cast

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