Octapus Salad

General Tso’s chicken (pronounced [tswò]) is a sweet, piquant, deep-fried chicken dish that is served in North American Chinese restaurants. (It is also seen with other variants, such as General Tse’s chicken or General Gau’s chicken.) The dish is named after Zuo Zongtang (formerly romanized Tso Tsung-t’ang), a Qing dynasty statesman and military leader, although there is no recorded connection to him nor is the dish known in Hunan, Zuo’s home province.