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I'll always favor eating real Chinese food than American food. You go to a decent American restaurant, for $20-$30+ you get a plate for yourself. For $15 at a r
by fma 10y ago
I'll always favor eating real Chinese food than American food. You go to a decent American restaurant, for $20-$30+ you get a plate for yourself. For $15 at a real Chinese restaurant, you get enough food for yourself and share with another. The food comes out in mere minutes, even in a busy restaurant. Chinese food is meant to be shared. You go to a western restaurant, you order a plate for one person.
A real Chinese restaurant has round tables, so everyone is equidistant from the food and can share among each other. You don't 'plate' a dish. You cook everything and put it out there for everyone. Food is about the taste, the freshness and quality.
You go there for bonding with friends and family. You don't pay dutch. One person pays, and sometimes there's a fight on who pays.
Real Chinese food cannot be expensive, because Chinese people know how to cook and won't go out. So often my aunts, uncles, family friends balk at going out. They can cook just as good, and it's cheaper. I need to drag them out. If it's expensive they'd never go out. You'd end up with food that caters to western taste, because only they would pay for expensive Chinese food.
- rangibaby 10y agoI love the "Lazy Susan" tables at Chinese restaurants
- stephenr 10y ago> You'd end up with food that caters to western taste As Ive said elsewhere, the only food I've had in 4 countries that was even close to the same in all, is Indian food (i.e. curry + rice). Every other type of food I've experienced, is influenced by the local tastes, and availability of products.
- wavefunction 10y ago"Curry" is a term invented by the English. It doesn't have any meaning to traditional Indian food.
- stephenr 10y ago> Curry was adopted and anglicised from the Tamil word kari (கறி) meaning "sauce",[5] which is usually understood to mean vegetables and/or meat cooked with spices with or without a gravy.
- mc32 10y ago>A real Chinese restaurant has round tables Round tables are for big parties. Restaurants in China, Taiwan, Malaysia, etc. have two person and four person tables as well. They also have shared food and non-shared food. It really depends on the restaurant type and the meal you're ordering as well as occasion. (Recall, some people eat lunch by themselves --most take it to go, some eat on premises.) You will see the round tables at "banquet" restaurants, many in hotels, but not all. Restaurant food in China, Malaysia, Taiwan, etc. is not all that different from the ones you find in neighborhoods which cater to a ex-pat or first or second generation Asians. They both cook with packaged ingredients, it cuts costs, rather than from scratch as you might at home or _some_ street vendors (many street vendors are franchised).
- fma 10y agoI don't disagree with you, but the article is talking about restaurants where you would spend a lot of money...not your lunch noodle shop.
- mc32 10y agoThis is not only evident mid-tier lunch establishments, but also in pricey restaurants in those countries too (not the exorbitantly priced restaurants, but the ones middle and upper middle go out for a good meal at the weekend. For the most part round tables are found in spacious "banquet" style restaurants (you may find others who have that too, but by and large, most have tables for two, four and a few sixes). Cheap places just have long foldable picnic style tables with benches where anyone can sit anywhere.
- horsecaptin 10y agoShared food and fighting over who pays is also very much a part of Indian culture. As well as freshness - fresh ingredients make for much more delicious curry =)