Why is chinese food so americanized?

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: chowmein
i wont even begin to tell you how they prepare the food. this will make some of you lose your lunch and boycott chinese food forever.

exactly.....i never tell my g/f how fried rice is just day old rice with day old shrimp.

 

[Hottie]

Originally posted by: jEct2

Originally posted by: iversonyin

Originally posted by: jEct2

I had dinner at my chinese friend's house. I couldn't swallow their food at all.... it was all bland, oily and slimey...

That is why.

And there is a different between cultural food from resturant and home cook food. There is Chinese food that is not Americanize. You really need to go to a real chinese restaurant

You're missing my point. There are NO americanized Korean or Japanese food regardless of restaurants. Why is Chinese such case?

You know those Jap roll with rice of sea weed? They're americanized Jap food, the traditional way to do it is sea weed over rice.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: Pepsei

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
there are lots of different chinese food..even in china. like southern cooking compared to other parts of america..cept china had way longer to evolve. not to mention its possible your friend sucks at cooking

yea, people may think certain dishes are americanized, but the truth is, they are more authentic than you think. for example.

Kung Pao Chicken. in a good Szechuan restaurant, it is delicious. but from a Cantonese place, they put too much sauce because Cantonese cooking use a lot of sauce.

Also, certain dishes tends to fare better in America compare to others, such as orange chicken versus drunken chicken. In authentic chinese preparation of orange chicken, you use aged and dried orange peels, I've seen places that uses orange jelly instead. hmmmm...

so I guess it depends on what your defination of americanized is and what you mean by authentic.

omg drunken chicken pwns. I can't believe its not more popular in the states

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: Hottie

Originally posted by: jEct2

Originally posted by: iversonyin

Originally posted by: jEct2

I had dinner at my chinese friend's house. I couldn't swallow their food at all.... it was all bland, oily and slimey...

That is why.

And there is a different between cultural food from resturant and home cook food. There is Chinese food that is not Americanize. You really need to go to a real chinese restaurant

You're missing my point. There are NO americanized Korean or Japanese food regardless of restaurants. Why is Chinese such case?

You know those Jap roll with rice of sea weed? They're americanized Jap food, the traditional way to do it is sea weed over rice.

It's because chinese food has had a much bigger presence for a longer time. Go to the mall and now you see Japanse places that are really americanzied.

 

[intogamer]

vegtable/ peanut oil

 

[Deeko]

What the hell?

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: Deeko
What the hell?

confirmed

 

[aphex]

In China, do you go to a Chinese Restaurant or is it just a Restaurant?

 

[z0mb13]

FYI restaurants in japan dont have rolls (california roll, soft shell crab roll, etc)

they are all nigiri sushi or sashimi

 

[thirdlegstump]

Originally posted by: z0mb13
FYI restaurants in japan dont have rolls (california roll, soft shell crab roll, etc)

they are all nigiri sushi or sashimi

That's exactly right although in some restaurants they actually serve rolls that became popular in the US (ie: california roll, spicy tuna etc.) but the good restaurants wouldn't do that.

 

[abc]

Originally posted by: jEct2
Why I ask you WHY?

I had dinner at my chinese friend's house. I couldn't swallow their food at all.... it was all bland, oily and slimey...

no 'real' sushi roll has stupid ass cream cheese. all of those dynamite, dragon, etc are all not genuine.

 

[PandaBear]

I had Thai food in Thai, and it is very different than the one in US. Where is the spicyness when they americanize the Thai food here? It taste just like Chinese food.

You can find authentic chinese food, but you may not be able to handle it. One white friend of mine went to one and ordered "orange chicken" (no such thing), and ends up hating it because there is real orange in it stir fried with chicken. Then there are other stuff that have less oil and more spices, barely cooked steam seafood. Whole chicken fried inculding the head and then chopped into pieces. JELLY FISH AND BABY OCTOPUS . Can you handle real chinese food? That's why many small restaurant americanize it.

You have to go to a big one in a big city that do chinese style wedding banquet, those are the real one.

Same for other asian food, my korean co-workers and boss told me there is no such thing as Korean BBQ, and my Japanese friends told me there is no such thing as californian roll and Teriyaki.

And the fortune cookie thing (and chop suey invented in San Francisco 100 or so years ago), lets not even start that here.

 

[StormRider]

Originally posted by: jEct2
Why I ask you WHY?

I had dinner at my chinese friend's house. I couldn't swallow their food at all.... it was all bland, oily and slimey...

My mom was a horrible cook when I was growing up. Salted dry fish, smelly tofu mixed with string beans and rice. And horrible tonic soup with gross tasting chinese herbs.

 

[CanOWorms]

There is also Indianized Chinese food.

 

[borosp1]

its all the MSG I tell ya!