Tribeca Film Festival

THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO

By Elias Savada | June 2014

The only problem I had with “The Search for General Tso,” and it’s something many of us experience eating Chinese-American food, was that an hour after watching it I was hungry to view it again…

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THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO

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