Chinese food in the west, what went wrong?

[Anonymous No.19756863]

Chinese food in Asia : Michelin star experience, 3000 years worth of culture and tradition

Chinese food in the West: MSG laden takeout for stoners or some tryhard modern overpriced hipster fusion

[Anonymous No.19756876]

>>19756863
ching chong ping pong, i don't care about your "authentic" insect sauce over rice experience

[Anonymous No.19756887]

>>19756876
Your loss bruh

[Anonymous No.19757108]

>>19756863
they made do with the ingredients they (we) have. nothing went wrong, it tastes good.

[Anonymous No.19758767]

>>19756863
>Chinese food in Asia :
>gutter oil to cut costs
>formaldehyde to keep things looking fresh
>use as little meat as possible because expensive
>gotta undercut the competition even at the sacrifice of quality
>if you raise your prices by a tenth of a renminbi, or a single NT$, or just one-fourth of a baht, or whatever your smallest unit of currency is, all your customers will go next door

[Anonymous No.19758775]

>>19756863
The west improves everything it touches. china is full of tradition and garbage.

if tradition says put dog shit in the food they would do it.

we go hmmm I can make this better, and then we make it better.

[Anonymous No.19758781]

>>19758767
In all seriousness, I did an economics essay on the corner sausage vendors in the little town I lived in.

Once upon a time, a family saw all the traffic on the road in front of their house, and they decided to try to sell things to the people driving by. They decided to make sausage, and they did a great job, so lots of people stopped and bought sausage from them.

Their neighbors grew envious, and within weeks, all five neighborhood families were busily making and selling sausage to the passersby. But the passersby were cheap bastards like all Chinsects, so the families began undercutting each other like mad, increasing the amount of fillers in their sausage, using sugar to cover up the lack of other taste, making the sausages thinner, and so on.

Eventually all the sausages tasted like highly processed garbage, and soon the passersby began just passing by, because who wants sausages that taste awful? But the families were locked in bitter competition with each other and refused to give up, so even to this day they all make shit-tier sausages and only sell a few at the lowest possible price points to the cheapest stupid chinsects driving past.

The End

[Anonymous No.19758782]

>there are more high-end chinese restaurants in china than there are in america
Wow. Amazing insight, OP. 10/10 thread.

[Anonymous No.19758784]

>>19756863
>msg laden takeout
You say that like it's a bad thing, MSG is delicious and Chinese takeout boxes are kino

[Anonymous No.19759745]

>>19758775
Americans are masters of fake news. You're just jealous we have thousands of years of history. If you guys were the ones with 3000 years of tradition, YOU would be the ones gloating about how cultured you are, and how we're "barbaric" or something for being such a young civilization.

[Anonymous No.19759753]

My grandparents came to the West
They weren't professional trained cooks
My grandfather's sister taught my grandparents how to cook Chinese food for white people because she had worked in restaurants before
They opened up a restaurant which sold the kinds of Chinese food that white people wanted to eat and which was economical and they got quite wealthy from it
They never ate the food that they cooked at the restaurant at home with the except of the dumplings they made and deep fried food

[Anonymous No.19759758]

>>19759753
Also I'm not sure how dim sum fits into this
I feel like dim sum requires way more organisation and skill than a typical Chinese takeaway restaurant so if you're immigrants in the 60s/70s it is probably smarter to open a takeaway restaurant
Once there is a significant enough Chinese population it could be worth doing dim sum but my family lived in a 99% white area

[Anonymous No.19760320]

>>19759745
better up your copium dose.

[Anonymous No.19760602]

>>19756863
Any big city will have authentic Chinese places that'll have what you want to eat.

[Anonymous No.19760716]

>>19756863
Its illegal to eat dogs in the west

[Anonymous No.19760719]

michelin is a tire company that wants to expand their business in asia

[Anonymous No.19760742]

>>19760716
It's actually not

[Anonymous No.19761086]

>>19759753
Based. Knew there market and made bank.

[Anonymous No.19761418]

>>19759745
>thousands of years of culture and tradition
that was forcibly obliterated in the years following your glorious revolution. Culturally, china is a dystopian parody of of its former self, it's not even the same country anymore. The US literally has a longer history than you.

[Anonymous No.19763068]

i just ordered takeout mongolian noodles for 15.25 and i have never experienced such a wide discrepancy with price and taste in my life.
there is no flavor in this. the "beef" is just rubber carvings. i even ordered it as "spicy"
theres a pool of liquid at the bottom and I sipped it to see if there was ANY flavor or seasoning put into this at all and its basically warm water.
either they need to be run out of the business with pitchforks or i got trolled.