Tso
pronunciation
How to pronounce Tso in British English:
UK 
How to pronounce Tso in American English:
US
Word Origin
- Tso
- in Chinese restaurant dishes, a reference to General Tso Tsungtang (1812-1885), military leader during the late Qing dynasty who crushed the Taiping rebels in four provinces. The chicken dish that bears his name (for no apparent reason) in Chinese restaurants apparently is modified from a traditional Hunan chung ton gai and may have been named for the general c. 1972 by a chef in New York City during the time Hunan cuisine first became popular among Americans.
Example
- 1. For most of us , chinese takeout means little white boxes packed full of sweet and sour pork and general tso 's chicken .
- 2. Maybe you crave moo shu pork , but the general tso 's chicken sounds good , too .
- 3. Attempts to introduce american chinese food to china go back at least to 1990 , when peng chang-kuei , the likely inventor of general tso 's chicken , opened a restaurant serving the dish in his native hunan province .
- 4. Sophia tso , a spokeswoman for china unicom in hong kong , said the decision to reduce roaming prices drastically had been made to serve the company 's customers , who are among the 100 million chinese citizens who travel abroad each year .
- 5. " Decreasing the price is not merely marketing , it is to meet the user 's needs and to meet business development and the inherent requirement for developing the telecom industry , " ms. tso said .