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General Tso
Why would a brave military man have a famous chicken dish named in his honor? Don’t blame General Tso. Or the chef behind it, for that matter. The chef who is credited with inventing General Tso’s chicken is Peng Chang-kuei, who was trained in the Hunan province and wanted to honor a hero from his region, General Tso Tsung-t’ang (now transliterated as Zuo Zongtang), with a chicken recipe using traditional Hunan flavors. Nearly twenty years later, when Chef Peng left China and opened a restaurant in New York, he altered his recipe (to account for American tastes), but then rival chefs altered his alteration until it became the lightly battered sweet-and-sour dish we know today. In an ironic twist, when Chef Peng opened a restaurant in the Hunan province in 1990, local residents didn’t like his signature dish—they found it too sweet.