Cycle 4 – Item 300

1 (Fri) November 2013

Orange Tangsu Chicken

2.5

from Toayen

at home

-Oksu, Seongdong, Seoul, Republic of Korea-

with the Family

Orange Tangsu Chicken is a Korean-Chinese dish, kinda.  Essentially sweet & sour sauce (i.e., “tangsu”), with deep-fried pieces of chicken and a few orange slices.  An adaption of sweet & sour pork, but not an item that would be found on standard menus.

What a joke.  Sounds like Chinese-American “orange chicken” in description, but turned out to be nothing like it in appearance and taste.  The deep-fried chicken was spongy, unseasoned.  The glaze was bland.  Ugh.

(See also GLOBAL FOOD GLOSSARY)

(See also RESTAURANTS IN KOREA)