Editing General Tso's chicken (section)

===Peng's claim===
[[Peng Chang-kuei]], a chef from Hunan who was later based in Chongqing and Taipei, rolled out the new dish circa 1973 when he opened the restaurant "Uncle Peng's Hunan Yuan" on East 44th Street, New York City.<ref name="nytimes"/><ref name="salon.com">[http://salon.com/food/francis_lam/2010/01/05/history_of_general_tsos_chicken "The Curious History of General Tso's Chicken"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100109180322/http://www.salon.com/food/francis_lam/2010/01/05/history_of_general_tsos_chicken |date=2010-01-09 }}, ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]''</ref>{{sfnb|Dunlop|2006}} Peng claimed his restaurant was the first in New York City to serve Tso's chicken. Since the dish was new, Peng made it the house specialty in spite of the dish's commonplace ingredients.<ref name="nytimes"/> A review of Uncle Peng in 1977 mentioned that their "General Tso's chicken was a stir-fried masterpiece, sizzling hot both in flavor and temperature".<ref>{{Cite news | last = Sheraton | first = Mimi | title = A Touch of Hunan, A Taste of Italy | newspaper = [[The New York Times]] | pages = New Jersey Weekly section, Page 68 | date = March 18, 1977 | url = http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10816FD385D167493CAA81788D85F438785F9 | access-date = 2007-04-26 | no-pp = true }}</ref> When Peng opened a restaurant in Hunan in the 1990s introducing Tso's chicken, the locals found the dish too sweet. His restaurant quickly closed in Hunan.<ref name="FortuneCookies"/>{{page needed|date=February 2022}}

There are two stories purporting to explain how Peng Chang-kuei created the dish when he worked in Taipei before he introduced it to New York. Both stories linked to the fact that Peng was well connected to the senior [[Kuomintang]] politicians in Hunan, Chongqing and Taiwan.<ref name="Lin 2016">{{Cite journal|title=彭長貴與彭園湘菜|date=2016|issue=9|volume=29|author=林明德|journal=料理·台灣|publisher=中華飲食文化基金會|url=https://ryoritaiwan.fcdc.org.tw/article.aspx?websn=6&id=2592|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320122928/https://ryoritaiwan.fcdc.org.tw/article.aspx?websn=6&id=2592|archivedate=2023-03-20}}</ref><ref name="udn 2009">{{cite news|url=http://mag.udn.com/mag/people/printpage.jsp?f_ART_ID=181212|title=彭園掌門人彭長貴 靈感來了就是菜|author=陳靜宜|work=聯合報|date=2009-03-01|archive-date=2009-03-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090315095700/http://mag.udn.com/mag/people/printpage.jsp?f_ART_ID=181212}}</ref> The first story was given by Peng himself in 2008 by [[Jennifer 8. Lee]] for the documentary ''[[The Search for General Tso]]'' (2014).<ref>{{cite news|title=老美最熟的老中 左宗棠…雞|date=2008-02-27|last=林少予|work=聯合報|url=https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/MdnCNhistory/M.1204062390.A.9FE.html|access-date=2023-11-09|archive-date=2023-10-23|archive-url=https://archive.today/20231023210833/https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/MdnCNhistory/M.1204062390.A.9FE.html|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref><ref name="worldjournal">{{Cite news|title=「尋找左宗棠」李鏡找到彭長貴 解開「左宗雞」身世謎|work=World Journal|location=New York City|date=2019-07-19|url=https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E5%B0%8B%E6%89%BE%E5%B7%A6%E5%AE%97%E6%A3%A0-%E6%9D%8E%E9%8F%A1%E6%89%BE%E5%88%B0%E5%BD%AD%E9%95%B7%E8%B2%B4-%E8%A7%A3%E9%96%8B-%E5%B7%A6%E5%AE%97%E9%9B%9E-%E8%BA%AB%E4%B8%96%E8%AC%8E-220000100.html}}</ref><ref name="chinatimes">{{cite news|title=96歲湘菜祖師爺 明再掌廚左宗棠雞|date=2014-05-28|last=姚舜|work=中國時報|url=https://www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20140528001849-260405}}</ref> In the documentary, Peng recalled in 1952 he was invited by the [[Republic of China Navy]] to be in charge of a three-day state banquet during Admiral [[Arthur W. Radford]]'s visit of Taiwan.<ref name="worldjournal"/><ref name="chinatimes"/> Peng claimed Tso's chicken was served on Radford's menu on the third day.<ref name="worldjournal"/><ref name="chinatimes"/> According to U.S. diplomatic records, Radford's visit was during June 2–6, 1953.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=The Chargé in the Republic of China (Jones) to the Department of State|first=Howard P.|last=Jones|title=Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, China and Japan, Volume XIV, Part 1 [June 18, 1953]|editor-first=David W. |editor-last=Mabon|editor-first2=Harriet D. |editor-last2=Schwar|publisher=United States Government Printing Office|date=1985|page=206|chapter-url=https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54v14p1/d110}}</ref> The second story was proposed by Taiwanese food writer Zhu Zhenfan in 2009, who said [[Chiang Ching-kuo]], the son of President [[Chiang Kai-shek]], paid a late visit to Peng's restaurant when Peng ran out of ingredients. Chiang was served an improvised dish, General Tso's chicken, by Peng.<ref>{{cite journal|last=朱振藩|date=May 2009|page=124|title=左宗棠雞人比驕|journal=歷史月刊|url=https://www.books.com.tw/web/sys_serialtext/?item=0010454772&page=3}} Later compiled in {{cite book|last=朱振藩|title=食林外史|publisher=麥田出版|date=December 2009}}</ref>