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General Tso’s chicken is a sweet slightly spicy deep-fried chicken dish that is popularly served in North American Chinese restaurants. The dish is most commonly regarded as a Hunanese dish although it was unknown in China and other lands home to the Chinese diaspora before it was introduced by chefs returning from the United States.The dish is named after General Tso Tsung-tang or Zuo Zongtang a Qing dynasty general and statesman although there is no recorded connection to him.