3 ms·
Chinese-American restaurants are declining as Americans get more adventurous with their eating. There are more choices beyond a burger, pizza, and Egg Foo Young
by yding 7y ago
Chinese-American restaurants are declining as Americans get more adventurous with their eating. There are more choices beyond a burger, pizza, and Egg Foo Young these days.
From just personal experience over the last two decades, the number of "authentic" Chinese restaurants has increased a lot in most of the places I've lived. So has the number of Thai/Korean/Japanese restaurants run by Chinese owners, as more savvy Chinese restauranteurs seek out higher margins.
- throw_776435 7y agoFrom what I understand, the Chinese Exclusion Act is one of the big reasons why Chinese food is more Americanized compared to other Asian cuisine. The Chinese in the US at the time had to tailor their dishes for American tastebuds. Previous Chinese immigrants were mainly from Southern China, where the cuisine is more rice based. The more recent Chinese immigrants come from everywhere, so you’ll get people from Northern China, where the cuisine is more wheat based. There’s even some Chinese dishes that uses goat milk and cheese in their dishes. This might be a bit off topic now, but after watching Watchmen recently and learning about the Tulsa race riots, I was surprised by how much of US history I wasn’t taught. For example, I was surprised by how involved Chinese immigrants were in American history and learned of some of the more tragic events like the 1871 Chinese massacre in Los Angeles.