Previously, we talked about the history of the development of Chinese food in the United States and the status it has gained today.

But many people have responded that Chinese food in the United States, including that prepared in Chinatown cafeterias, is not authentic at all. Chinese tourists traveling to the U.S. are also choosing fake "Chinese food" with strange flavors.

Orthodox reason: material seasoning limitations we have an old saying "orange flowers is orange, born in Huaibei is gauze", and there are some differences with other climate, temperature, soil bound growth of vegetables, so not to mention transcontinental American ingredients. This also means that the feed fed to poultry is different, and the texture of the meat is naturally somewhat different.

Also, the handling of ingredients varies between the two countries. For example, we eat most of the pork every day, China can pay attention to slaughter and bloodletting, to a certain extent, to remove the fishy pork flavor. The United States in order to improve efficiency, usually with factory current kill pigs, that pork has a heavier fishy flavor.

So chili peppers, tomatoes, cabbage, pork also cooked in traditional Chinese cuisine, can not produce a familiar taste, and may not be delicious. Based on this reality, chefs should follow the limitations of the ingredients, improve the recipes, and enhance the flavor with other seasonings. So Chinese food in the United States is not a change in American eating habits, but rather a limitation on ingredients for the most part. Who holds the spoon in the back of a Chinese restaurant To ensure authenticity, many Chinese restaurants in Warren will hire domestic chefs to eat the spoon whenever possible. However, it is difficult to recruit chefs of a certain caliber, even if they are highly paid. Because most of them are "wild chefs," the quality of their cooking is limited.

In addition to Chinese chefs, Chinese restaurants will also hire foreign chefs to cook Chinese food.

But due to the constraints of Western cooking habits, it is customary to add seasonings to the cooking process according to Chinese recipes. So there's no need to be surprised to see white chefs cooking Chinese food in the backrooms of Chinese restaurants. Of course, this phenomenon is still relatively rare. In most Chinese restaurants, the person holding the spoon is still a Chinese person who knows what's going on. Is American Chinese food "fake Chinese food"? Why is the Chinese food in Chinatown that tourists see not authentic? American Chinese food is predominantly Cantonese. Today's Chinatown serves Sichuan and Hunan cuisine, but the cafeterias serve the most Cantonese food. This is because there were more Cantonese people who immigrated overseas in the early days. Because Liangdao was also the first cuisine to represent Chinese cuisine in the American dining scene, it is the most accepted culinary community in the United States.

But Chinese tourists from the Middle East, West and North China may not be used to the lighter flavors of Cantonese, so they may get the impression that "American Chinese food" is not authentic at all. But in fact, the early Chinese who went abroad were not influenced by the other 7 major cuisines, so instead they made traditional and authentic cold dishes.

So when Cantonese people travel to the United States, they sometimes come across some old restaurants, but instead they feel more authentic. It doesn't really matter at all whether it's authentic or orthodox only if it's delicious. What matters is whether the customer thinks it's delicious. What makes Chinese food the oldest and richest culture in the history of the world is that people from every era have poured their tongues into the secret. Therefore, American-style Chinese food cannot be described as fake Chinese food, and the more specific branch of the Chinese food world needs to be recognized. Just like when you eat Peking duck in Guangdong, Chongqing hot pot in Fujian, or Hunan cuisine in the Northeast, there's no guarantee that the local food between these regions is real.