Well, I would like to know how Chinese food is like in the West from people that live there. I would like to learn about their POVs. Cause I've heard alot how people hate chinese food, its soggy, deep fried with lots of oil, and well generally lousy. And the names that the chefs gives the good is ridiculous! Like chop something.
This is a story for example. I read it in reader's digest or some other magazine. The reporter went to a chinese restaurant. The chef said his dish was traditional and famous back in a province of China, dating back to the Qing Dynasty. ( For all those that do not know about the Qing Dynasty, it was the last dynasty to rule China, from 1600+ till 1911.)Anyway, when the reporter went to China to check it out, the officials and people there did not know anything about the dish! It was a fake.
Well so just to repeat, what are your feelings about Chinese food, do you like it? Real Chinese food isn't the fried noodly takeaway stuff I usually see portrayed in American culture.
Nichodemus ( I'm from Singapore btw, a Singaporean Chinese.)
Pot stickers aren't American. I can attest to that. Dumplings, pot stickers, buns, and other grain-based foods are very commonly eaten in the North because wheat grows better in the colder North rather than the hot South. In fact a potsticker is simply a pan-fried dumpling. Nothing more. Usually we eat dumplings freshly boiled, then fry the leftovers.
Also, if someone calls a potsticker "Chinese ravioli" I think I'll give them a good backhand across the face.
Near where I live there are no "roper" Chinese restaurants. There are only horrible pokeylittle take-aways that cater for drunks on Friday night. So unfortunatly as of yet I have not tasted real chinese food.
i live in the US and most of the chinese food here is all americanized and we have things called fortune cookies that are just as american as washington dc lol i saw it on how its made.... real chinese food is amazing but its really hard to come by here but i have to me honest i love american chinese food
