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General Tso

General Tso is the alternative form of General Tso's chicken.

Meaning of General Tso's chicken

Noun

General Tso's chicken (uncountable)

  1. A sweet and spicy dish of deep-fried chicken, popular in Chinese restaurants in North America.
    • Hot and sour soup, shrimp toast, shumai, General Tso’s chicken, pork with garlic sauce, beef with asparagus, hot and spicy shrimp, sushi deluxe, cheesecake, fried bananas, litchi sherbet.2009 May 31, Joanne Starkey, “Old-School Chinese With Efforts at Fusion”, in New York Times

Questions about General Tso

What is General Tso the alternative form of?
General Tso is the alternative form of General Tso's chicken.

Words near General Tso in the dictionary

  1. General Tao chicken
  2. General Tao's
  3. General Tao's chicken
  4. General Tinio
  5. General Trias
  6. General Tso
  7. General Tso chicken
  8. General Tso's
  9. General Tso's chicken
  10. general warrant
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