General Tso's chicken

General Tso's chicken
General Tso's chicken
Alternative names[note 1]
CourseMain
Serving temperatureHot
Main ingredientsChicken, ginger, garlic, soy sauce, rice vinegar,
Shaoxing wine or sherry, sugar, sesame oil, scallions, hot chili peppers, batter
VariationsOrange chicken (Westernized version)
General Tso's chicken
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZuǒ Zōngtáng jī
Wade–GilesTso3 Tsung1-t'ang2 chi1
IPA[tswò tsʊ́ŋtʰǎŋ tɕí]
Xiang
IPA[tso˧˩ tsoŋ˧ tan˩˧ tɕi˧][1]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationJó jūng tòhng gaì
IPA[tsɔ̌ː tsʊ́ŋ tʰɔ̏ːŋ kɐ̂i]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJChó-chong-tn̂g-ke
Alternative Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZuǒ gōng jī
Wade–GilesTso3 kung1 chi1
IPA[tswò kʊ́ŋ tɕí]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationZo2 gung1 gai1
JyutpingJó gūng gaì
IPA[tsɔ˧˥ kʊŋ˥ kɐj˥]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJChó-kong-ke

General Tso's chicken (左宗棠雞 Zuǒ Zōngtáng jī) is a sweet and spicy deep-fried chicken dish.


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  1. ^ 鲍厚星; 崔振华; 沈若云; 伍云姬 (1999). 长沙方言研究. 湖南教育出版社. pp. 69, 82, 89, 62.