Timeline for Where can I eat dishes that feature in western countries' Chinese restaurants?
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| Nov 1, 2016 at 14:12 | comment | added | hippietrail | Don't be surprised to find out that quite a few traditional local specialties are "artificial modern inventions". Basically at least in Taiwan many people try their best to come up with a gimmick that will become a hit. Bubble tea is one that doesn't go back that many years. Night markets in Taiwan are full of both hits and misses in this category. It doesn't take that many years for a hit one to become a new local tradition. Some traditional Chinese dishes were invented in Chinatowns in Southeast Asia for instance. | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 6:48 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @drat: It should be mentioned, though, that especially in China, "Western style food" is sometimes understood also by Chinese as "Chinese food, eaten with knife and fork rather than chopsticks", or "Chinese food, ordered per person on a plate rather than in bowls in the middle of the table". In those cases, it is not meant to resemble any Western food in terms of ingredients or taste. | |
| Jun 15, 2014 at 21:21 | comment | added | Spehro 'speff' Pefhany | There are enough East Indians in the Toronto area that Indian-style Chinese food is reasonably well represented. Things like chili paneer. Often combined with Hakka cuisine. I can't imagine anyone outside Europe wanting German-style Chinese food, nor do I think Canadian-Chinese style sweet and sour chicken balls are in demand in China. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_balls | |
| Jun 13, 2014 at 4:05 | comment | added | hippietrail | Yes I think I finally found my first non-tourist burrito on a trip to Northern Mexico, where I hadn't spent much time. Only later did I find a non-tourist burrito place in Mexico City. My point is that what non Mexicans think of as representative of Mexican food is regional within Mexico rather than representative. And the same surely goes for all world cuisines when viewed from outside perspectives. | |
| Jun 13, 2014 at 2:03 | comment | added | LessPop_MoreFizz | @hippietrail Well, Cal-Mex (and Sonoran Cuisine, as well as Tex-Mex in general) is still Mexican food! It's just from a border region that has since been absorbed pretty wholly into the US. | |
| Jun 12, 2014 at 21:51 | answer | added | delliottg | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 11, 2014 at 0:22 | comment | added | hippietrail | It took me three long tours of Mexico before I found my first burrito for sale in a place not designed specifically for American customers. I had started to believe burritos were fake Mexican food! | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 12:42 | comment | added | Garrett Albright | The only place I've encountered fried ice cream is in a semi-authentic Mexican restaurant in the US. So I always thought it was fake Mexican food, not fake Chinese food. | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 10:45 | comment | added | user16388 | Part of the experience of going to other countries is to experience foreign cuisine. So by looking for food that you are familiar and comfortable with, you are denying yourself an important part of the international travel experience. In addition, locals will think you are a typical American tourist thinking that you are still in America. (Why they don't teach basic things like this in our school system is beyond ridiculous.) American Chinese food is, in general, not actual Chinese food - as is the case with most types of cuisine in America. In general, you won't find Americanized Chinese food | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 3:04 | comment | added | hippietrail | And European food in America and American food in Europe. And if you've actually been to Mexico you will find Mexican food in Australia very depressing indeed despite its new-found popularity. | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 22:51 | comment | added | MSalters | @Bernhard: That's fairly specific to the Netherlands (who were the former colonial power in Indonesia) but not elsewhere. And even in the Dutch case one has to account for the Chinese minority which lived in Indonesia. I suspect the British may have similar influences due to their former influence in South East Asia. | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 22:24 | answer | added | Kaz | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 21:25 | answer | added | user16373 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 17:54 | answer | added | gnasher729 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 16:20 | comment | added | drat | This problem also goes the other way round. Most western-style popular restaurants in Asia that I've tried don't taste like anything you'd get in Europe. | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 13:23 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackTravel/status/475991536589873153 | ||
| Jun 9, 2014 at 11:59 | vote | accept | Golden Cuy | ||
| Jun 9, 2014 at 11:45 | answer | added | Kate Gregory | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 11:40 | answer | added | lambshaanxy | timeline score: 28 | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 10:51 | comment | added | Bernhard | For European (read Dutch) "Chinese" restaurant, I am in understanding that a lot of it originates from Indonesia, but I do not have first hand experience on that, therefore not a full answer. | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 10:26 | history | asked | Golden Cuy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |