How did that General Tso dude learn to make such excellent chicken?

Answer 1

Some people just know how to cook!!!

Answer 2

General Tso Tsungtang, or as his name is spelled in modern Pinyin, Zuo Zongtang, was born on Nov. 10, 1812, and died on Sept. 5, 1885. He was a frighteningly gifted military leader during the waning of the Qing dynasty, a figure perhaps the Chinese equivalent of the American Civil War commander William Tecumseh Sherman. He served with brilliant distinction during China's greatest civil war, the 14-year-long Taiping Rebellion, which claimed millions of lives.

Tso was utterly ruthless. He smashed the Taiping rebels in four provinces, put down an unrelated revolt called the Nian Rebellion, then marched west and reconquered Chinese Turkestan from Muslim rebels...

...Is it possible that, struggling to carve out a new life in America under backbreaking adversities, and having heard of the sword skills of the remorseless General Tso (who had the top leaders of the Nian Rebellion executed with the proverbial "death of 10,000 cuts"), the overseas exiles indulged in some gallows-humor about their old enemy? That the chopped-up chicken dish may have gotten its name from the sliced and diced victims of Tso's grim reprisals?

Answer 3

Like many men in power they take full credit of their underlings ... Its actually Private First Class Zheng Chin that happened upon the recipe ..... he served it to the General who told him that it tasted like crap, after getting the details.... the private so disgusted with himself deserted and became a basket weaver

Answer 4

General Tso......Colonel Sanders......What's the link between them and chicken?

Answer 5

it's a family secret

Answer 6

....idk

he was smart?

chinese ppl have good food :D
lolll

Answer 7

Good question. It is pretty good!!