{"id":1021,"date":"2008-08-07T17:06:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T22:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/07\/general-tso-did-not-appear-here\/"},"modified":"2008-08-07T17:06:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T22:06:20","slug":"general-tso-did-not-appear-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/07\/general-tso-did-not-appear-here\/","title":{"rendered":"General Tso did not appear here."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Vescey writes about how General Tso <a href=\"http:\/\/olympics.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/06\/postcard-from-beijing-general-tso-did-not-attend\/#more-386\">did not show up at the Times&#8217; Olympic banquet<\/a> for everyone who was sent to cover the games. As he writes: &#8220;Those of us who have never been to China have always heard that Chinese food is vastly different from what we get in the States \u00e2\u20ac\u201d takeout or serious.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 The menu<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assorted cold platter<\/li>\n<li> Seafood sour and spicy soup<\/li>\n<li> Deep-fried prawn with jelly sauce<\/li>\n<li> Sauteed beefsteak with black pepper sauce<\/li>\n<li> Steamed fresh sea fish<\/li>\n<li> Fried lotus root with lily<\/li>\n<li> Deep-fried chicken<\/li>\n<li> Fired celery scallop<\/li>\n<li> Braised tofu with pine soft fungus (mushrooms, that is to say, in a lovely broth)<\/li>\n<li> Roasted chicken garlic<\/li>\n<li> Boiled dumplings and fresh fruit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No General Tso&#8217;s chicken, he observers. But there chicken that was there came in all its beaky glory. As George writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Karen Crouse liked the chicken, moist with a crisp exterior, although she was a bit put off by the chicken\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head perched on the rim of the plate. Personally, I thought the chicken had a proud look on his face, knowing he had served this great news organization from across the sea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Vescey writes about how General Tso did not show up at the Times&#8217; Olympic banquet for everyone who was sent to cover the games. As he writes: &#8220;Those of us who have never been to China have always heard that Chinese food is vastly different from what we get in the States \u00e2\u20ac\u201d takeout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tso"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-gt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}