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What doesn't add up to me is the idea that American Chinese food evolved from the 1800s, yet every legit Chinese restaurant has owners who have a heavy Chinese
by orblivion 10y ago
What doesn't add up to me is the idea that American Chinese food evolved from the 1800s, yet every legit Chinese restaurant has owners who have a heavy Chinese accent, clearly from China themselves. Did they come here and so quickly adapt to what was expected from "Chinese" food?
- smallnamespace 10y agoBasically yes. They're here to make a buck, not to do haute cuisine, and it's much safer to serve food that your customers already know rather than something totally foreign. Restaurants change hands frequently in cities. Actual family owned restaurants that have passed through generations are a small minority.
- boomboomsubban 10y agoMy experience has been that very few Chinese restaurants are owned by Chinese immigrants, most are from some other country. There are a handful of "Chinese" food distributors in the US that provide for most restaurants. It's more akin to opening a McDonald's.
- sdiupIGPWEfh 10y agoHaving never eaten at two Chinese restaurants with even remotely the same food, I find that hard to swallow. At least in my part of the eastern US, Chinese food quality varies wildly.
- boomboomsubban 10y agoEasiest to tell with the chicken dishes, and even with the same food source the quality varies wildly. Chefs, amounts of ingredients, freshness and other things still influence things, similar to fast food. Distribution still doesn't have the greatest online presence, but here's one of the east coast distributors. http://nywtc.com http://nywtc.com