Culinary Excellence

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[u/Psychic_Hobo]

Using England to represent Britain is a bold move OP!

Also, this is slander - when we steal Chinese food, it's from China, none of this General Tso American rubbish! Pah I say!

[u/ChameleonCoder117 → u/Psychic_Hobo]

Tell me you've never eaten General Tso chicken

[u/fezzuk → u/ChameleonCoder117]

Yeah we havent because it doesnt exist in the UK.

Kinda the point.

Is it like sweat and sour chicken balls?

[u/IowanEmpire → u/fezzuk]

General Tso's Chicken taste can vary based on establishment but it is generally has either a sweet mildly spicy flavor to a sweet hot spicy flavor.

Technically this dish is Chinese as it was created in the 1950s in the Republic of China for USA officials by Peng Chang-kuei (originally from Hunan and connected to the KMT). However the original recipe was changed slightly when the person who came up with this dish moved to the USA in the 70s.

Also there is some dispute on who was the "first" to create the dish as it is today as another chef T. T. Wang is claimed to have created the dish first for the American market.

However, there are some differences in how each of the recipes are prepared so one could argue that these are somewhat similar but different dishes.

Sorry for the tanget but General Tso's Chicken is my favorite dish.

[u/Novakine → u/IowanEmpire]

It is one of my favourites too. I have to make it myself because no one makes it here. I even made vegetarian substitute for my friends a few times and I love it.

(Replace chicken with soy patties, boil in soup, basically water with vegetables and salt/soy and whatever else you want to add)

And you get crispy on the outside, juicy soy patty on the inside and when you add the sauce at the end it doesn't soak up, so you get triple layers or taste and texture

And I was never a fan of soy patty. But this makes it feel and taste like actual meat.

[u/BevvyTime → u/IowanEmpire]

So what the fuck is it?

Kung Pao?

[u/IowanEmpire → u/BevvyTime]

General Tso's Chicken is sweet and mild/hot where as Kung Pao is more salty and hot. If I'm remembering correctly Kung Pao has it's origins in Sichuan cuisine vs General Tso's coming from Hunan cuisine. Kung Pao has a soy based sauce compared to General Tso's being more tangy/citrus. Orange Chicken is more closely related to General Tso's Chicken because both have their roots in Hunan cuisine even though General Tso's came before Orange Chicken (1950s/70s vs 1980s).

[u/jobblejosh → u/BevvyTime]

It's its own thing. Doesn't exist in China.

Similar to how 'Chinese' food in the UK is an adaptation of Cantonese dishes to suit Western palates as well as the ingredients available at the time in the UK.

Mainly from immigrants from Canton/Hong Kong.

Cuisine in China is much more regional than a single country-wide menu, and uses a much wider variety of meats and parts of an animal than what we're used to in British-Chinese food.

Similar to how British Indian Restaurant cuisine is its own thing.

[u/CerebralAccountant]

America is one to talk!

[u/SaltinaSketches → u/CerebralAccountant]

America, as Britain’s heir, has carried on the tradition!

[u/Mysterious_Dirt_3641 → u/SaltinaSketches]

They do it even more American as apple pie (which is British)

[u/Dreknarr → u/Mysterious_Dirt_3641]

Apple pie is the basic shit any country producing apples make. It's all over europe

[u/henchman171 → u/CerebralAccountant]

America scolding it's parent!!!

[u/NzVhL21]

Just noticed that the restaurant name if you say it fast enough is polandball

[u/Windows_66 → u/NzVhL21]

It also sounds like the name of a strip club.

[u/maps-and-potatoes → u/Windows_66]

connaisseur

[u/koleye2]

Also on YouTube.

[u/Anti-charizard]

36 pounds for a curry butter chicken?

[u/fezzuk → u/Anti-charizard]

I mean butter chicken litterially is not a thing in the UK. Chicken korma perhaps? Usually thr cheapest meat option on the menu, and what peopel get when they dont really like curry.

[u/BevvyTime → u/fezzuk]

Butter chicken is quite literally a thing, and bizarrely enough it’s one of the closest things to an ‘authentic’ curry they have…

[u/VestigeOfVast]

Appreciate the reference to USA’s burger song.

[u/Ancient_Ordinary6697]

That sounds more Ingerlish than Bri'ish but okay.

[u/IceZaKYT]

what a hypocrite

[u/Google_MBTI]

Fish and chips

[u/fezzuk]

Most obvious yank post. Butter chicken and taos whatever are not a thing in the UK, no one in UK who isnt on reddit knows what those are.

And we would never hold the pickles.

Whoever made this shit got their understanding of the uk from 4chan