I want to recreate a dish from a local vegan Chinese food restaurant that was near me growing up (so American Chinese food, not authentic Chinese food), but moved away recently. I tried making General Tso's sauce, and it was close, but not quite what I was going for; I can't quite figure what the difference I tasted was, but it was 'sharper'. I'm wondering if this is referencing a more specifically-named dish I can look up to find recipes. I am only looking for the recipe for the sauce, the rest seems simple enough to recreate.

The dish is called "House Special Crispy Tofu" description on the menu is: "Chunks of tofu on top of string beans in a chef special sauce with roasted almonds." If anyone can translate what's written on the left of the screenshot of the menu, that would be helpful (I used a drawing tool, and I could be wrong since I don't read or speak Chinese, but it looks like the 1st three characters are 左宗豆, but couldn't figure out the 4th).

Here's my description of what it is:

• There's a chance it's meant to be a tofu dish, even though it's from a vegan restaurant, since they sell other imitation meat.
• There are green beans underneath everything, which are either raw, or if they are cooked, only very briefly.
• The cubes of tofu seem to be battered and fried, or at the very least, there's a starchy coating on the outside of the tofu. The coating is crispy if you order it in the restaurant (when that was possible), but when you order it as take out, it become soggy, but it's still delicious.
• The sauce is dessert sweet. I can definitely taste soy sauce and sugar, and is thickened with corn starch, but there's more there, and am not sure what combination of garlic, ginger, vinegar, wine, or anything else that they use.
• It normally comes with hot peppers, but I normally order without.
• The whole thing is topped with slivered almonds.

Can any of you recognize this as something specific that I can look up recipes for?