What if McDonald nuggets with bbq sauce is a ultra shit version of general tso chicken?
General tso chicken is just chinese 10 piece nuggets with McDonald's bbq.
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Tuscy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ultra shit
Americanized international food 😂
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
WHAT did I tell you about eating chicken with a messy sauce in the shower?
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
No cleanup bro!
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
OK, Kramer!
moonshadow@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Random General Tso’s fact: It’s the same sauce as the sesame chicken, but the latter has sesame seeds in it and the former has crushed chili pepper paste instead. Otherwise the base is the same (i.e. mostly sugar).
JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This might be true for the shittiest of Chinese-American recipes. Just like OP, I don’t know where you’re getting your sesame chicken, but I suggest you stop going there.
Now, regarding the bases being mostly sugar, if you’re talking chemically, your statement is true: starches are just chains of sugar. But if your GTC and SC only differ by crushed red, you’re getting robbed.
Source: worked pantry/prep in the most popular Chinese take-out-only joint in Albany NY while in college. GTC was by far the most popular dish, averaging ~700 orders per night, pre Internet.
Granted, Chinese-American recipes are chaos. In my experience though, the best GTC recipes use whole japones chiles which are toasted in oil to make them more fragrant and a much more attractive presentation. Rice wine vinegar, garlic, ginger, and oyster sauce are the other primary notes. The balance of these notes IMO are what define the signature of the best GTC for any given restaurant, and everyone is just bringing their own spin to that mix.
Some of the comments here and some of the “Best GTC/SC Recipe EVAARRR!” that I see on the interwebz… Holy hell, y’all. I want to come cook for you, because… DAMN. There’s some genuinely so-shitty-it’s-hilarious-yet-tragic C-A recipes out there.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes, I worked in a Chinese takeout retaurant, too.
There is no “technically” about it. Your list of ingredients there quite carefully left out the entire ladle full of cane sugar. By volume it’s about one third of the sauce by way of how every takeaway place I’ve ever seen prepares it.
Asafum@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Lul wut?
Fuck mcdonalds, their shit is so bad nowadays.
Go to somewhere where Asians actually live and there are actually decent Chinese restaurants.
Dupelet@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
As an Asian in Asia: I have questions about the pairing of ‘decent Chinese restaurant’ and a dish I’ve never seen in Asia before.
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
It's like tex-mex, shrimp scampi, deep dish, etc.. When a foreign cook tries to accommodate to their new home's preferences and tastes with local ingredients, and then the recipe evolves locally, distancing from its origins.
More often than not, it makes no linguistic sense: scampi are small lobsters, salsa sauce is a repetition, and deep dish is just deliciously wrong.
SethranKada@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
You know what, fair. I always thought it looked better than it tasted.
YICHM@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
General Tso Chicken Rib – $5
It tastes like nothing
JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t know where you’re getting General Tso’s chicken, but may I suggest not going there anymore? :D
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Im not mad.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How does anger fit into this?