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liuzhou

liuzhou

This sounds like an ill-considered step back to me. Just as more and more authentic regional Chinese cuisines are becoming more available in the West and proving popular, he is advocating a return to the old habit of westernising Chinese dishes to suit someone Chinese's perception of western tastes.

Rather than  "one step toward the world stage", it’s a great leap backward. He complains on one hand that a Mapo Tofu he ate 30 years ago was inauthentic while on the other hand proposing a radically altered twice-cooked pork dish to suit American tastes!

 

And he is wrong when he writes that

 

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Across Europe and the United States, the market share of Chinese cuisine is much lower than that of Mexican, Italian, Japanese, and even Indian and Thai cuisine.

 

Chinese cuisine is the most popular restaurant food in the UK, for instance, and its popularity has increased since regional cuisine was introduced around the turn of the century. It is no longer only Cantonese cuisine as it was in the past.

 

 

 

liuzhou

liuzhou

This sounds like an ill-considered step back to me. Just as more and more authentic regional Chinese cuisines are becoming more available in the West and proving popular, he is advocating a return to the old habit of westernising Chinese dishes to suit someone Chinese's perception of western tastes.

Rather than  "one step toward the world stage", it’s a great leap backward. He complains on one hand about a Mapo Tofu he ate 30 years ago which was inauthentic while on the other hand proposing a radically altered twice-cooked pork dish to suit American tastes!

 

And he is wrong when he writes that

 

Quote

Across Europe and the United States, the market share of Chinese cuisine is much lower than that of Mexican, Italian, Japanese, and even Indian and Thai cuisine.

 

Chinese cuisine is the most popular restaurant food in the UK, for instance, and its popularity has increased since regional cuisine was introduced around the turn of the century. It is no longer only Cantonese cuisine as it was in the past.

 

 

 

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