Screening of "The Search for General Tso"

Sat Jul 13, 2019
2:00pm CT
Age: 5 and up
Price: Free for members, $5 for general public
Location:
Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, Chicago, IL, 60616
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The Chinese American Museum of Chicago hosts a special screening about the stories behind the famous General Tso's Chicken. Filmmaker Jennifer 8. Lee will attend in person, and guests can enjoy a taste test of General Tso’s Chicken from local restaurants after the screening. 

From the host: "From New York City to the farmlands of the Midwest, there are around 50,000 Chinese restaurants in the U.S. Walk into any Chinese restaurant in the country and you can be fairly certain you’ll be rewarded with a plate of this sweet and sticky fried chicken—seemingly just spicy enough for the American palate. But how did this dish reach such levels of ubiquity and who was General Tso in the first place? This delightfully insightful documentary seeks to uncover the origins of a dish that Americans have warmly adopted as their own." 

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