However, many people complain that American Chinese food, including the Chinese food cooked in China City restaurants, is totally untrue. China tourists visiting the United States will also choose fake "Chinese food" with strange taste.
Legitimate reason: material seasoning restrictions We have an old saying, "orange blossom is orange, and what is born in Huaibei is gauze", which is also different from vegetables constrained by other climate, temperature and soil, not to mention American ingredients throughout the European continent. This also means that the feed of poultry is different, and the taste of meat is naturally different.
In addition, the treatment of raw materials in the two countries is also different. For example, the pork we eat the most every day, China can pay attention to slaughter and bloodletting to remove the fishy smell of pork to some extent. In order to improve efficiency, the United States usually kills pigs with factory current, which has a strong smell.
Therefore, peppers, tomatoes, Chinese cabbage and pork are also cooked with traditional Chinese food, which can't make a familiar taste and may not be delicious. Based on this reality, chefs should obey the restrictions of ingredients, improve recipes and use other seasonings to improve the taste. Therefore, Chinese food in the United States is not a change in American eating habits, but a restriction on most ingredients. Who is the chef with a spoon in China restaurant? In order to ensure authenticity, many Chinese restaurants in Huaren will invite domestic chefs to eat spoons as much as possible. However, even with high salary, it is difficult to recruit a certain level of chefs. Because most of them are "wild chefs", the cooking quality is limited.
In addition to China chefs, Chinese restaurants will also employ foreign chefs to cook Chinese food.
However, due to the limitation of western cooking habits, according to China's recipes, spices are customarily added in the cooking process. Therefore, it is not surprising to see white chefs cooking Chinese food in the back kitchen of China restaurant. Of course, this phenomenon is relatively rare. In most restaurants in China, people who hold spoons are China people who know the inside story. Is American Chinese food "fake Chinese food"? Why are the Chinese food in China not authentic? Chinese food in the United States is mainly Cantonese food. Nowadays, there are Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine in Chinatown, but Cantonese cuisine is the most common in the canteen. This is because there are more Cantonese who immigrated overseas in the early days. Because Liangdao is also the first food that represents Chinese food to enter the American catering industry, it is the food industry with the highest acceptance among Americans.
However, China tourists from China, the west and the north may not be used to the light taste of Cantonese food, so they may have the illusion that "American Chinese food" is not true at all. But in fact, the early China people were not influenced by the other seven cuisines when they went abroad, so their cold dishes were very traditional and authentic.
Therefore, when Guangdong people travel to the United States, they sometimes meet some old restaurants, but they feel more authentic. It doesn't matter whether it's authentic or not when it's delicious. What matters is whether the customer thinks it is delicious. The reason why China cuisine can become the oldest and richest culture in the world history is that people in every era give secrets to each other. Therefore, American Chinese food cannot be called fake Chinese food, and a special branch of Chinese food needs to be recognized. Just like you eat Beijing roast duck in Guangdong, Chongqing hot pot in Fujian and Hunan food in the northeast, there is no guarantee that the local food between these areas is true.