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Real Chinese food is very scary and gross to most Americans. I have a hard time eating many authentic Chinese meals. But LA, DC, NYC are amongst the best Americanized Chinese.
Worse Americanized Chinese food that I ever ate was in Knoxville Tennessee.
Real Chinese food is very scary and gross to most Americans. I have a hard time eating many authentic Chinese meals. But LA, DC, NYC are amongst the best Americanized Chinese.
Worse Americanized Chinese food that I ever ate was in Knoxville Tennessee.
There are real Chinese dishes cooked to the Chinese palate in just about every major city or any place with more than say 25,000 Chinese residents.
The easiest way to tell the difference between Americanized Chinese food vs. Chinese food cooked to the Chinese palate is:
1) Americans like their food sweeter. Americanized places will add more sugar to any dish to make it so. For example, Orange Chicken actually is a Chinese dish but its not nearly as sweet if you eat it in China (as I have). Here its almost like eating Orange candy.
2) If you order a chicken dish, if the meat is all white breast meat.
3) Most Americans cannot tolerate the spice that Chinese can especially in Szechuan cuisine. Many beef based dished come from that area and the Americanized places tone down the spice significantly. Ive been to Chengdu and eaten there and most Americans would be begging for a glass of milk if they ate most places there.
4) Chinese eat lots of things that Americans would find repulsive (chicken feet, monkeys brains, almost every part of a duck, etc.). If you go to a place that has ducks hanging for everyone to see, its authentic.
Anywhere in the South (south of the DC suburbs), except for maybe Atlanta, Raleigh, and a few places in Texas.
Midwest also isn't too good regarding Chinese food but they're slowly getting better.
West Coast is indisputably the best place to get Chinese food, though the East Coast (especially NYC, DC and to a lesser extent Boston) is also fairly decent.
Real Chinese food is very scary and gross to most Americans. I have a hard time eating many authentic Chinese meals. But LA, DC, NYC are amongst the best Americanized Chinese.
Worse Americanized Chinese food that I ever ate was in Knoxville Tennessee.
The worst Chinese I ever had was in Murfreesboro Tennessee just outside of Nashville.
Real Chinese food is very scary and gross to most Americans. I have a hard time eating many authentic Chinese meals. But LA, DC, NYC are amongst the best Americanized Chinese.
This is true in general. We have a friend from Yin Bin City and she takes us to her preferred restaurants.
We are usually eating beef lung and other assorted organ meats.
Gross.
I can eat liver from birds, and small animals but in general I despise organ meat.
There are real Chinese dishes cooked to the Chinese palate in just about every major city or any place with more than say 25,000 Chinese residents.
The easiest way to tell the difference between Americanized Chinese food vs. Chinese food cooked to the Chinese palate is:
1) Americans like their food sweeter. Americanized places will add more sugar to any dish to make it so. For example, Orange Chicken actually is a Chinese dish but its not nearly as sweet if you eat it in China (as I have). Here its almost like eating Orange candy.
2) If you order a chicken dish, if the meat is all white breast meat.
3) Most Americans cannot tolerate the spice that Chinese can especially in Szechuan cuisine. Many beef based dished come from that area and the Americanized places tone down the spice significantly. Ive been to Chengdu and eaten there and most Americans would be begging for a glass of milk if they ate most places there.
4) Chinese eat lots of things that Americans would find repulsive (chicken feet, monkeys brains, almost every part of a duck, etc.). If you go to a place that has ducks hanging for everyone to see, its authentic.
Just my obervations.
Yes.
Sichuan (Szechwan) may not be representative though. Even most Chinese cannot tolerate spicy Chengdu cuisine.
Monkey brain is not really common. You may find it occasionally in Guangdong but no where else.
Tripe is widely used in authentic Mexican food as well.
Italians and French eat tripe. It's not so common in Italian American food, though. Once people move to the land of plenty, they stop eating guts and start eating steak. (People in America do eat liver and onions, but they're usually older people who grew up poor).
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