There’s just something that seems odd about it. Perhaps some irony somewhere…
UPDATE: Ah yes, of course, as commenters point out, it’s because there’s nothing “authentic” about General Tao chicken.
There’s just something that seems odd about it. Perhaps some irony somewhere…
UPDATE: Ah yes, of course, as commenters point out, it’s because there’s nothing “authentic” about General Tao chicken.
Maybe because there’s nothing authentic about general Tao chicken, which is a North American style food nowhere to be found in Asia.
I greatly enjoyed Jennifer Lee’s TED talk on General Tso’s chicken: http://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_8_lee_looks_for_general_tso.html
(And chinese food in general. I was surprised egg rolls aren’t chinese either and the fortune cookie story is very interesting too.)
Surely it couldn’t be related to the fact that General Tao’s Chicken is one of the most authentic dishes to originate from China…
Or the fact that Tikis have as much to do with authentic Chinese food as, well, General Tao Chicken.
It probably TIKIes your fancy…
Authentic Chinese food would most likely make most North Americans lose their lunches.
Should Lagacé charge you royalties for that title? :)
The ad doesn’t say “authentiki chinese”… it could mean “authentiki north american full-of-saturated-fats-but-so-yummy” food.
yeah, and not to mention that Everything at Tiki-Ming tastes like like total crap.
Thai Express FTW! :)
Thai Express blows. I went there once and will never go again. Once you’ve had Cusine Bangkok, you can’t be satisfied with anything else.
It’s quite possible for General Tao to be authentic General Tao. I’ve seen many variations on it, so I guess at one point there was one base recipe. Just don’t call it authentic Chinese Food. ;-) BTW, DaveID is right, authentic Chinese food (I have found some in Montreal) and it’s very difficult for the North American palette.
General Tao chicken is known as General Tso chicken in the US. It’s gotten a lot of press from people who’ve tried to figure out exactly where it came from and why it has become one of the most typical American-Chinese dishes. Jennifer 8. Lee has a bunch of entries on it:
http://www.fortunecookiechronicles.com/blog/category/chinese-food/general-tso/
Strange thing is that Montreal is the only part of Canada where I’ve encountered it. It’s completely unheard of in the West, where sweet-and-sour pork (an actual Cantonese dish) and ginger beef (invented in Calgary) take its place.
I’ve seen it in Ottawa as General Tso’s.
I was a big fan of Tiki Ming’s ads which simply said “Cuisine chinoise” — WITH the quotation marks!
I had the exact same reaction the first time I’ve seen this (and also some I-should-start-a-blog-to-post-this thoughts).