If you're like me, a person living in New York on Cinco de Mayo, you were probably at a restaurant featuring tacos, enchiladas, margaritas and other ambiguously Mexican fare. At least that's how it felt on Monday trying to get a table at three restaurants in hip Williamsburg, Brooklyn, before finding one with a half-hour wait that seemed pretty good. But not to worry, terrible service and lots of waiting aside, the food was delicious—a chili-lovers dream. 
From the grand tradition of American bastardization of ethnic cuisines comes General Tso's Chicken, and how. There are plenty of fair and balanced criticisms of this dish:
- It is battered, deep fried, covered in sweet gunky MSG-laden sauce.
- Uh, you call that stuff in the middle chicken?
- That is most definitely not Chinese food, and I don't know who General Tso is, but I guarantee he wasn't winning any wars eating this dish.
While all true, these criticisms all miss the more important point--that General Tso's Chicken is delicious.
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