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REC: General Tso's Chicken
sf wrote:
> On Tue, 05 May 2009 21:22:30 -0500, wrote:
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>> On Tue, 05 May 2009 21:12:02 -0400, "Jean B." > wrote:
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>>> Joseph Littleshoes wrote:??> ??> ??> Joseph Littleshoes wrote:??>>??>>??>> sf wrote:??>>??>>> On Mon, 04 May 2009 22:35:10 -0700, Joseph Littleshoes??>>> > wrote:??>>>??>>>> Victor Sack wrote:??>>>>??>>>>> Damsel in dis Dress wrote:??>>>>>??>>>>>??>>>>>??>>>>>> Victor Sack wrote:??>>>>>>??>>>>>>??>>>>>>??>>>>>>>>>> General Tso's Chicken??>>>>>>>>>??>>>>>>>>>??>>>>> Here is how a certain very round-eyed person prepares the dish - there??>>>>> is both a recipe and a video - at??>>>>> <http://www.seriouseats.com/2007/02/fuchsia-dunlop-general-tso-and.html> ??>>>>>??>>>>> - as posted a couple of times before.??>>>>>??>>>>> Bubba??>>>>??>>>>??>>>> Interesting, i have recently been thinking about making an Italian ??>>>> ragu with chicken thighs, this looks like an interesting treatment ??>>>> of the thighs.??>>>??>>>??>>>??>>> Have you ever seen it on a menu, Joseph? I am looking at a menu from??>>> a local Chinese restaurant (this one says
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>>> arin & Szechuan Cuisine)??>>> right now and it's not there. Someone mentioned getting it at a??>>> Chinese buffet. If that's the case, I'll never see it.??>>>??>>??>> No i had never heard of it either, i cant recall seeing it on a menu ??>> here in the bay area but i talked to a friend of mine who lives in ??>> NYC last night and he says its common there and as noted by previous ??>> posters, varies greatly in quality from restaurant to restaurant.??>>??>> On the other hand, i often don't read a chinese menu very closely, ??>> often i wouldn't know one dish from another by name and so while i ??>> don't recall a mention of it i might just not have noticed it. Im ??>> going over to chinatown to day and will look at menus.??>> -- ??>> JL??>>??> ??> Ok! 7 of the 10 restaurants i checked had it on the menu, some had both ??> 'generals chicken' and general tso's chicken' some just one or the ??> other. The 3 restaurants that did not have it in English on their menus ??>
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>>> ery little in English on the menus, and lots, pages and pages in ??> Chinese, so, for all i know, they may serve it also.??> ??> With chicken thighs at .79¢ per pound in Chinatown i think i will probly ??> try making it very soon.??> ??> Tough if some one could recommend a mild chili pepper, i just don't know ??> enough about the chili peppers to know which is which and i don't want ??> to make it Hunan hot, mildly hot is ok but i don't like things too spicy ??> hot.??> ??> To change the subject a bit i had stopped ordering lemon chicken in ??> Chinese restaurants because it seemed to be too sweet most of the time, ??> i had it in L.A. once and it was delightful in a lemon broth with thinly ??> sliced lemons but then i went several years unable to find as good a ??> version in other restaurants.??> ??> Till a friend ordered it in a local Vietnamese restaurant where it was ??> made with lemon grass and lemon juice and little to no sugar, not sweet ??> at all, spicy & tart
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>>> not sweet in a thin lemony broth rather than a ??> thick, syrupy, sugary sweet lemon sauce and that without the breading ??> common to many of the too sweet version.??> ??> I have found a consistency to it in Vietnamese restaurants that ??> encourages me to take a chance on it in one i am not familiar with ??> unlike most Chinese restaurants where i expect it to be too sweet for me.??> -- ??> JL??> ??> ??Thanks for that tip! My daughter always orders lemon chicken at ??one of the Chinese restaurants we go to, and I agree that it is ??way too sweet.????-- ??Jean B.??
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>> I think you need to turn your word wrap on
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> Something happened. Her posts are usually readable.
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Yes, something odd is going on. Why, when quoted by Joseph, did
everything look normal? I haven't fiddled with my settings and
will go look at them.
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Jean B.
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