Posted at January 27, 2016, 7:11 pm:
Lately, I've been trying to reproduce a dish at my favorite Chinese restaurant called General Tso's Chicken. The recipes online aren't even CLOSE and it's not your generic chinese restaurant recipe. It's a Mom & Pop (or momma-san & poppa-san) joint. Needless to say, it's DELICIOUS and i'm hooked.
ANYHOO, back to the story. I've been trying to reproduce it and havent even come CLOSE. Except for tonight, when i not only came VERY close, but SURPASSED IT! It was WILD excellent!
The problem is: I was frying up the chicken while making the sauce. i could only fry up the chicken in batches cuz my pot wasn't big enough. While i'm frying, (and wishing i was an octopus for the additional arms) i noticed that my sauce wasn't NEARLY enough even after i added the Corn Starch.
So, starving, i thought "The **** with it, i'll just throw together more sauce and not worry if it's close or not". I put in a few splashes of oyster sauce, a few splashes of hoisin, and a few splashes of soy sauce. LO and BEHOLD, i sat down and it was AWESOME! and i have NO CLUE how to remake it the exact same way!! GO FIGURE!
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