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"American Chinese" food has to be uniquely American. I temporarily lived in HongKong for about 18 months and I still remember my shock of landing in HK and not
by codegeek 7y ago
"American Chinese" food has to be uniquely American. I temporarily lived in HongKong for about 18 months and I still remember my shock of landing in HK and not finding "General Tso's Chicken" anywhere :). The ignorant American in me then realized that Chinese food in HK (and this is not even mainland china) is so different. Then I learned that there is a specific type of Chinese food called Szechuan that is generally spicy which probably comes close but that is a small part of real chinese food. I could still be wrong in understanding all this but at some point, I stopped worrying and start enjoying the food :)
- Duhck 7y agoThere's a great comedic documentary called "Searching for general tso" that's a great watch on this topic.
- syntheticnature 7y agoI have found, during business trips to Germany, that there is a "Germanized American Chinese" food there. Not as a chain, either -- just as random restaurants serving something similar, but not the same, as "American Chinese" food.
- MartijnBraam 7y agoIt seems like every country kinda has their own "Chinese food", in the netherlands if you go to a chinese restaurant most dishes will actually be indonesian. Also a bunch of dishes you'll only find in dutch "chinese" restaurants that I haven't found in other countries. One example of this is "Babi Pangang"