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Kung Pao Chicken with Szechuan Peppercorns
Chef Andy Magowan fell in love with Chinese food at age 8 and has a long history of working with the cuisine, from his job as a busboy at a Chinese restaurant in high school to making a Chinese-style staff meal at his own restaurant, Geer Street Garden. “At first I thought the Chinese explorations wouldn’t fit with Geer Street Garden’s mostly-Southern-with-a-few-Mexicanthings-thrown-in approach, but gradually, after some positive feedback from the staff, I realized that the real spirit of the restaurant was anything goes. So I began serving it as the special on Friday and Saturday nights.” In February, one of Geer Street’s servers, Kristen Allen, suggested the restaurant switch over to a full Chinese menu, and so for the week before and on the Chinese New Year, that’s what they did. “I prepped for weeks,” Andy says, “making and freezing over 1,000 dumplings and spring rolls, 100 pounds of General Tso’s chicken nuggets, preparing fresh stocks, the whole bit. … We will continue to do our weekly Chinese special every Friday (and sometimes Saturdays, if there’s extra), and will hopefully do another week like this next year.”
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