Wait, where is General Tso's Chicken? My wife is from a small town just 50 km southeast of Nanjing, that is now folded into Nanjing proper, with metro and all.

Wait, where is General Tso's Chicken? My wife is from a small town just 50 km southeast of Nanjing, that is now folded into Nanjing proper, with metro and all. The town's language has nothing to do with Nanjing, they cannot understand each other at all. The town's cuisine is completely different, there's no duck at all, no similarities besides focus on rice as a staple. I applaud the author of the article. Living and traveling China for 13 years drove me to understand that, to me, there's really no "X Chinese Cuisines", every little town has something unique and some cooking methods that are totally different from the next little town. Same with the language. It's a shame that it's now being destroyed.