The Search for General Tso

IMDb 6.5 2014 71 min Documentary

Director

Ian Cheney

Country

CN

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

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