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I know it sounds alittle racist ( clearly I am not ) But Chinese ( and Asians in general ) have a reputation for being very cheap - frugal. As in NOT wanting to discard leftover old food etc etc ...
That fact keeps me away from unknown restaurants as I would rather not contract food poisoning
I know it sounds alittle racist ( clearly I am not ) But Chinese ( and Asians in general ) have a reputation for being very cheap - frugal. As in NOT wanting to discard leftover old food etc etc ...
That fact keeps me away from unknown restaurants as I would rather not contract food poisoning
I’ve been going to Chinese restaurants
For over 40 yrs and never had one issue
With food handling safety/sickness issues
I’ve been going to Chinese restaurants
For over 40 yrs and never had one issue
With food handling safety/sickness issues
Nor have I ever gotten sick eating at a Chinese restaurant
But I have been to a few places in my life in Chinatowns in various major US cities and seem some very very questionable cleanliness issues as well as questionable food handling issues.
No doubt it is fairly rare to actually contract food poisoning while eating out at a Chinese restaurant ( wild guess .05 % ) But I do not venture out as adventurously these days as I did in my younger days.
I go out to eat only a few times a month and almost ALWAYS it is some place I am a regular at. I am a regular at these places because I like the food and the prices and am positive I am being served fresh wholesome food from a clean kitchen.
Having worked twice in Shandong Province in China, I got used to the Shandong cuisine which seems to be hard to find in the USA. So I pretty much stopped going to American style Chinese restaurants.
That is weird, like you used to like American Chinese food but having tried another style in China you no longer find what you used to like appealing?
I know it sounds alittle racist ( clearly I am not ) But Chinese ( and Asians in general ) have a reputation for being very cheap - frugal. As in NOT wanting to discard leftover old food etc etc ...
That fact keeps me away from unknown restaurants as I would rather not contract food poisoning
If you go to a restaurant where everything on menu is under $15, they HAVE TO cut corner.
The problem is, Chinese food has been labeled as "cheap" in America. Even in China it is very common to have a dinner with $30 per person in a decent restaurant. But Americans are reluctant to pay much for Chinese food.
The way you have described Chinese food suggests to me that you have never eaten the real article. Even "Americanized" Chinese food should not be heavy or drowning in goopy sauce.
What a bunch of noodles in some watery sauce? I don't care for that either. None of it is very good really.
No doubt it is fairly rare to actually contract food poisoning while eating out at a Chinese restaurant ( wild guess .05 % )
You are suggesting that one of every 2,000 persons eating at a Chinese restaurant gets food poisoning. A different wild guess might have been a better one.
Chinese cuisine isn't fried rice and egg rolls. It is very diverse because China actually is very diversity than most people thought. There are over a dozen different languages and many many different cuisines and styles. Even Japanese food have different style but Chinese cuiisines can be very different.
Dishes like Peking Duck which most Americans have never ever tried or seen and is expensive if it's done right.
Lately a lot of Americans are into Shanghai Soup dumplings and it's very popular across Asia except the US which still thinks Chinese food is egg rolls and beef and brocolli.
There are some crazy expensive chinese dishes that I know most Americans don't have the guts or stomach for until it gets popularize one day by millennials.
Japanese Ramen is cheap fast food and now it is expensive but Ramen was created by Chinese and Japanese ramen is a variant of ramen soup. There are tons of variation of Korean and Chinese ramen besides Japanese versions.
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