Chinese Views on Western Food -With Recipes!
Chinese Cooking Demystified Explores a little explored cuisine
Another experiment. Please let me know what you think.
This one is being launched a day early as I will be attending the FDNY Search and Rescue Conference in New York City for a few days. I hope to send pictures of the conference and city.
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To see the videos, please click on this link: Chinese Cooking Demystified - Playlist For Chinese Versions of Western Food or as they call it “Canto-western Cha Chaan Teng Food (茶餐厅菜式).”
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Most Americans are quick to say things like “The Chinese food in the USA is not the same as the Chinese food in China.”
Okay, however that begs the question, “Is the American (or Western as in Western Civilization) food in China, the same as the American (or Western) food in the USA (or in the West in general)?”
Hmmm, good question, but the answer is definitely not. Outside of the major fast food chains or expensive hotels that routinely cater to Western tourists and business people, if you order “Western” food in Asia, well, as they say “you roll the dice and take your chances.” What you are usually getting is an Asian person’s idea of what Western food is, and chances are good that that person has never actually been to the west and cooked or eaten much of our food.
And some of their ideas can get very strange.
One of the things, one of several, that makes the Chinese Cooking Demystified so wonderful is that they periodically delve into Chinese dishes that have historically been considered “Western” by Chinese cooks even when the truth is that they aren't Western at all.
Chinese Cooking Demystified is one of my favorite YouTube Cooking Video Channels, and I definitely enjoy watching YouTube Cooking Videos. The team consists of Steph and Chris. Chris is an American with a strong culinary arts background. Steph is Chinese, cooks as well, works as a translator, and has a strong interest in translating cookbooks. Once in a while Steph’s father, a chef, also appears and offers some views or shows some techniques. Until recently, they’d lived together in Guangzhou (once known as Canton in English) in Southern China, but now, for reasons that are complex and explained in a video, have relocated to Thailand. They produce some of the most interesting Chinese cooking videos out there. ( Even living in Thailand, their focus is still Chinese food and not Thai food.)
And among the most interesting of the interesting, in my opinion, are several of the videos on this playlist featuring reproductions of dishes and recipes that the Chinese think we in the West eat.
It’s worth remembering that while many or most in the USA and the West in general find Asia and Asian cultures difficult to understand, they find us just as confusing and exotic. I encourage you to check out their videos by following the link.