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Thread: How Chinese is chinese cuisine outside China?
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[quote=CHYNAGYRL,230654]The Chinese food in major North American cities with large Chinese populations (San Fran, Vancouver, Toronto) is very good and covers the regional cuisines from different parts of China. Generally, when people in N.A. think of Chinese food, they think Cantonese cuisine since the Hong Kong -originated businesses have really good food and dim sum. Now there's starting to be more Taiwanese, Shanghaiese and Beijing style joints. American Chinese food is different, and can be found in many towns, in the small ones. They have dishes like chop suey, lemon chicken, egg rolls, that were popularized here by the first Chinese immigrants. My parents travel a lot and they tell me the Chinese food in Europe is generally of a much lower quality than what is available in North America. Nice architecture, history and art, but if you love Chinese food, continental Europe is probably not the best place to find it The Chinese restaurants serve small, expensive dishes that sometimes don't even taste remotely like a comparable dish in China. :-)[/quote]
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