Westerners are ignorant. What a shocker.
Chinese food is so good and diverse. I had this spicy white fish dish once in Guangdong that was just incredible, I think about it often lol, can’t remember what it was called
That being said there is something about american chinese food that makes me crave it from time to time (probably all the salt and sugar)
You can follow Food Ranger on youtube if you want to see a Westerner try all kinds of Chinese food, in China, without political bullshit attached (he goes to Xinjiang as well)
I'll return the rec with another. Katherine's journey east is also pretty good. American who got her phd in China and tours/blogs small rural towns. Same to it not being bs.
It's also generally healthier than american food I would assume
I think this mostly has to do with the extensive use of vegetables cooked in various tasty ways. Western dishes (specifically West European) seem to have very few good techniques to cook vegetables, leading white children to hate veggies. I think this is exacerbated in Britain and their Anglo-Saxon colonies (cue the meme about British food having no seasoning).
Also, proper Asian dishes tend not to actually use much oil. Stir frying only lightly coats the outside of food with oil, very different from western deep frying.
Anecdotally, I feel less greasy and sludgy after eating fried Sichuan dishes than comparable fried Western dishes.
To be fair, Mcdonald’s isn’t really representative of the food eaten in the US for the main part
Sorry, I've only been there once, but from what I have been told by canadians / americans, fast food is consumed quite frequently there. They even eat breakfast at fastfood restaurants.
I sound like a boomer lol, I know that there are many different dishes, but the general eating habits seem to be way unhealthier than in other parts of the world. I have never seen so many overweight people anywhere else, though I don't blame them individually, the problem is systematic.
David Chang has a fantastic episode on Chinese food. I think it's Ugly Delicious?
i enjoy both panda express and authentic chinese cuisine. there are some niche things like drunken shrimp eaten alive, but the vast majority of chinese people don't eat "weird" foods like it. they eat stuff you'd typically find in a chinese restaurant in the west, which tend to be pretty authentic.
I can't do americanized Chinese food I confess, I'm not American enough for that ;D
Lol “westerners” is such a broad group of people that this comment makes you look ignorant.
Not understanding the prevalence of orientalism makes you look ignorant
The Economist, well known tankie publication, all their staff browse lemmygrad
I author content at the economist so I can post it here and double dip on the clout.
Cope, seethe, and order crab rangoons and shrimp fried rice instead of 辣子鸡.
辣子鸡
Sounds interesting. Wonder what Sichuan peppers taste like.
