General Tso's chicken

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General Tao Chicken sounds like General Tso...only with a lisp 🙂

 

[PsychoAndy]

Originally posted by: abc

Most chinese restaurants i've seen, usually ones that claim "New York style", are usually all wussy with the soy sauce, and instead of getting a dark, rich smelling fried rice, you get plain old "fried" rice that has a similar color with paella, which isn't that good.

ah, impressive observation there about dark and fragrant smelling (should come from good soy sauce - soy sauce is brewed, not like those dark water packets that takeouts give and people actually use eek) vs. 'paella fried rice'.

Although i've never heard of places marketing their fried rice as 'New York Style" as Pizza shops do with respect to pizza, interesting.

But I guess that's what NY style fried rice is these days? It's that arroz amarillo (yellow rice -bright yellow that is) that you find in sooo many takeouts these days. Back in the 80's it wasn't like that. Fried rice in any ol' takeout would be white rice with dark soy, which made it like you describe. But this style, which i think is more authentic Cantonese style, gradually disappeared in NYC by the late 80's.

In NYC restaurtants (not takeouts) any fried rice dish doesn't come out yellow rice colored, thankfully.
And you are saying restaurants that you come across, that are not in NYC, make it NY style and it is paella yellow huh.

Heh heh, from what i understand the oldtimers blame the change on the Fujianese takeout cooks that gradually took over so many takeout businesses all over the neighborhoods.

ABC, do your rents own a restaurant? You know your stuff, and you probably are "jook sing" judging by your name, so i bet you do. Anyways, they call their cooking "New York style", not the actual fried rice or anything. It has soy sauce in it, except nowhere near enough, it's a pale color. Friend rice should be dark brown, like the way Kowloon in Boston serves it up. Baffled should know what i'm talking about, seeing as she's from there 😀 Potstickers are also good, as well as wontons, etc, and so is lobster sauce, and pepper steak, and pork strips, and goldfingers, and...I better stop before i get too hungry.
And for those who keep saying it isn't "real" chinese food, i know, it's gwey-loh food, but I still like it. If you really want to talk about "real" chinese food, I can go on about chinese mushrooms, wood ear mushrooms (wong ngee..err...yeah), chicken feet, tripe, various types of dim dum, etc...

 

[roncarter]

the best chinese food is frog legs.. by far! muahhaha

 

[bandXtrb]

Going to bed after my awful general Tso's chicken dinner, I woke up two hours later with an upset, rumbling stomach. I took a Mylanta tablet and felt better.

Chinese restaurants that have rotten food = :|

I'll stick to sandwhiches from Subway. I never got sick from eating there.

 

[ThaGrandCow]

Anyone got a good recipe? Still waiting to try making my own.

 

[abc]

ABC, do your rents own a restaurant? You know your stuff, and you probably are "jook sing" judging by your name, so i bet you do. Anyways, they call their cooking "New York style", not the actual fried rice or anything. It has soy sauce in it, except nowhere near enough, it's a pale color. Friend rice should be dark brown, like the way Kowloon in Boston serves it up. Baffled should know what i'm talking about, seeing as she's from there Potstickers are also good, as well as wontons, etc, and so is lobster sauce, and pepper steak, and pork strips, and goldfingers, and...I better stop before i get too hungry. And for those who keep saying it isn't "real" chinese food, i know, it's gwey-loh food, but I still like it. If you really want to talk about "real" chinese food, I can go on about chinese mushrooms, wood ear mushrooms (wong ngee..err...yeah), chicken feet, tripe, various types of dim dum, etc...

hey there. actually no on the restaurant stuff, i guess i took an above average interest for a number of years about the food, Chinese and others. And no, heh heh it wasn't from College years doing delivery for a joint, heh heh, though I had a friend who did that for a few months back then.

and Yes on that, i am made in USA you can say.

Heh heh you like lobster sauce too? From what I understand, real lobster sauce comes from really cooking lobster and cracking egg over it while in a wok, a Cantonese deal. .. so it's really lobster with lobster sauce. Takeout lobster sauce: with shrimps and like imitation crab meat, no lobster but a sorta lobster price to it isn't there.

Say, aren't 'GoldFingers' merely Chicken Fingers? That & the creamcheese/crab fried wontons are sooo "OutsideNYC Takeout Style" foods ha ha.

Hmmm maybe I shall investigate Boston some time, sounds interesting.
heh heh, and I guess 'real Chinese' food are those that 'they' are kinda hesitant to eat. Ha ha, you can tell the hesitation while in restaurants with the pushcarts. And not to say all Chinese like all of the exotic side stuff.

 

[XMan]

That & the creamcheese/crab fried wontons are sooo "OutsideNYC Takeout Style" foods ha ha.

Don't knock 'em till you've tried 'em! Crab rangoons are great!

 

[Bignate603]

I like it provided that they didn't load up on hot peppers in it. A couple places around here put so much in your tongue burns and you can't even taste it.