Forkelo ranking · Updated September 2026
12 general tso's chicken across the South Bay, ranked on what people say about the dish itself — never the restaurant's overall rating.
Home Eat 汉家宴 - Milpitas · Great Mall
5 dish-specific mentions · 80% positive · 2 source types · menu verified September 2026
The Great Mall branch draws steady praise: freshly cooked, still crisp on arrival, and named by repeat customers as their standing order.
Sweet Mango · Willow Glen
5 dish-specific mentions · 80% positive · 4 source types · menu verified September 2026
Named in a South Bay thread asking specifically where to find the best version of this dish, and called a hidden gem by diners who ordered it among several plates.
Dumpling Depot · Sunnyvale
13 dish-specific mentions · 62% positive · 3 source types · menu verified September 2026
The deepest set of diner accounts here. Repeat praise for a sauce people call unique and one of the best they have eaten; the complaints are about sogginess after a delivery trip.
4 dish-specific mentions · 50% positive · 3 source types · menu verified September 2026
The most specific praise in this pack: crispy outside, tender inside, a rich sauce. One earlier order under new ownership arrived as a stir-fry with mushrooms and snow peas instead.
Golden House Restaurant · San Jose
6 dish-specific mentions · 50% positive · 3 source types · menu verified September 2026
A recent lunch came out crisp, hot and unusually large. Older visits went the other way: chewy or stringy chicken, plenty of salt and no real heat.
Home Eat 汉家宴 - San Jose · Downtown San Jose
6 dish-specific mentions · 50% positive · 3 source types · menu verified September 2026
Diners split: some call it the reason they came back, crisp and not greasy; others say recent plates arrive looking prepackaged, or drowned in chili sauce.
Home Eat 汉家宴 - Sunnyvale · Downtown Sunnyvale
2 dish-specific mentions · 50% positive · 2 source types · menu verified September 2026
The downtown Sunnyvale branch of the group: the same spicy fried chicken with broccoli at the same low pickup price. Popular with delivery orderers, with no written account of the plate yet.
4 dish-specific mentions · 50% positive · 3 source types · menu verified September 2026
Split verdict: named among the dishes regulars love here, and separately called one of the worst versions a diner has had, with a coating that arrived entirely soggy.
China Inn · The Alameda
6 dish-specific mentions · 33% positive · 4 source types · menu verified September 2026
A long-standing takeout for some regulars, but the criticism is consistent when it comes: dry chicken, too much sauce, and sweeter than the menu's hot-and-spicy billing suggests.
2 dish-specific mentions · 50% positive · 2 source types · menu verified September 2026
Cupertino serves the group's spicy fried chicken with broccoli at the same low pickup price. Delivery orderers like it, but no written account of this branch's plate exists yet.
SweetHome Kitchen · San Jose
2 dish-specific mentions · 50% positive · 2 source types · menu verified September 2026
One diner calls it the best they have ever eaten and says why: a very light batter that stays crisp, bell peppers and chiles through it, and a plate bigger than expected.
Home Eat 汉家宴 - Santa Clara · Santa Clara
5 dish-specific mentions · 20% positive · 3 source types · menu verified September 2026
Regulars who came for this dish say the kitchen switched to a frozen, precooked breast that reheats like a nugget. The mildest verdict here is okay, nothing special.
Every score is built from evidence about the specific dish: how often locals recommend it, how strongly, how recently, and whether independent sources agree. A restaurant's overall star rating is never converted into a dish score.
Quality and confidence are reported separately. A dish two people loved can score high, but it is marked early ranking until more evidence backs it up. The whole calculation — every constant, and three dishes worked through line by line — is written out on the methodology page.
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