Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Tue 05 May 2009 06:12:02p, Jean B. told us...
>
>> 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 Mand 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 ??> had v
>> 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
>> but 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.??
>>
>
> What is this Jean?
>
Beats me! I didn't look like then when I was typing it up. How odd.

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Jean B.