Originally posted by: amnesiac 2.0
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Originally posted by: Carbo
The Hunan style requires additional seasoning on the puppy you're eating.
There may actually be something to this. For example, a while back I picked up from Safeway's chinese food take out department some mongolian beef, and it tasted weird because they used
actual beef. I'm not sure what kind of meat most chinese food establishments use, but it's not beef...
Damn it, now I'm craving chinese food... Grr
I was convinced that the "Beef" that chinese restaurants use is tripe, but I've had tripe and it's not quite the same. I think it's just flank steak that's been uber-tenderized.
The differences between styles - i.e. Szechuan, Hunan, Mandarin, Canton, etc. is the spices and ingredients used. Most of them vary in how spicy the dishes are in accordance to the geographic location of each province....i.e., the northernmost (colder) provinces tend to have hotter food, etc.