Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Wed 06 May 2009 06:31:37a, Jean B. told us...
>
>> 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/f...p-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.
>>
>
> Mysteries will never cease. <g>
>
And the quoted stuff, which I left, still looks odd, while my new
prose looks okay. Very strange.

--
Jean B.