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TED Jennifer 8. Lee: Who was General Tso? and ...

submitted by Joe Motion

(lurgee)
1 decade 5 years 11 months ago

...other mysteries of American Chinese food.

Reporter Jennifer 8. Lee talks about her hunt for the origins of familiar Chinese-American dishes -- exploring the hidden spots where these two cultures have (so tastily) combined to form a new cuisine.

14 Comments

I can't, but someone really ought to mention that this is kinda *long

Invocations (long) cannot be called by thain because thain is not privileged - sorry.

*long

This video has been flagged as being at least 10 minutes in length - declared long by RedSky.

I wonder if the 8 is short for something. Jennifer 800 Lee maybe?

I love this video. I've oft wondered about the origin of General Tso's chicken.

LMFAHS @ Kung Food. Hehehe.

There's a running theme in Ireland to try and make your chinese restuarant have the funniest name...so far my favourite is Phat Soon, closely followed by Andrews Chinese.

Nebosuke says...

Higher quality TED version http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jennifer_8_lee_looks_for_general_tso.html

*talks

Adding video to channels (Talks) - requested by gwiz665.

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Interesting.

The duration of this video has been updated from unknown to 16:38 - length declared by oritteropo.

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The Search for General Tso (2015) Trailer has been added as a related post - related requested by ant on that post.

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