#american chinese food

[wikipediapictures]

Crab Rangoon

#crab rangoon #wikipedia #wikipedia pictures #food #american chinese food #food and drink #wontons #fried wontons #savory

[nightravenesque]

#food #american chinese food

[theinternetisaweboflies]

#orange tofu #tofu #rice #food #heart shaped food #american chinese food

[savorydream]

#General Tso's Chicken #chicken #american chinese food #food #asian food #rice #recipes #recipe

[thedreadvampy]

The thing is. Bad/gross food is rarely a DISH - when food is bad it's because it's been badly made, whether because of skills or available ingredients. but a dish p much only exists recognisably and has a name because someone likes at least one version of it.

which is to say. there isn't really a way of naming a dish, school of dishes or specific food culture and going EW ISN'T THIS DISH UNILATERALLY CONCEPTUALLY DISGUSTING without denigrating quite a lot of people.

like you don't have to like it in any form. but it's eaten and shared because it's good to a not insubstantial number of people when cooked right.

(and I don't really understand how you approach that with total incuriosity when it's a dish you haven't tried like. ARE rocky mountain oysters good? Maybe! I would very much eat some to find out!!!!)

this is actually something the British food poll did in a way the American ones I've seen haven't really - they described how the food they're imagining is, specifically, badly prepared (grey meat and veggies; unseasoned shepherd's pie). which is wildly tipping the scales by calling it British Food but. like. that is an on point definition of why that food is gross.

(this also applies to American chocolate, which like. Broad category but I think most of us understand this refers to low-cocoa high-sugar chocolate, probably with bucolic acid. so we are being invited to imagine Badly Made Chocolate not. the concept of chocolate)

personally I just think it's very rarely a good or funny idea to shittalk how gross any given food culture is. partly because food is important and culturally evocative for most people, partly because it's very...alienating? to be like WHO COULD EAT SUCH A THING? just because you wouldn't, and largely because to be frank it says more about you than about the food that you have so little imagination or curiosity that you can't imagine why a food might be enjoyable to folks who aren't you.

yes this includes jello salad, I would like to try it. ONCE. if it wasn't appealing to someone it wouldn't be so widespread.

#red said #like. as if talking shit about people for eating offal or offcuts particularly hasn't always been hugely loaded in race and class terms #ewww can you believe filipinos eat tripe. can you believe Chinese people eat pig feet? #YEAH I CAN AND YOU SHOULD TOO. Those are normal parts of an animal to eat and it's weird that you think it's weird #but it's also. a really common racist trope right? like. how often does racist rhetoric mention food being 'weird' or 'smelling bad'? #because shitting on someone's food and calling it gross is a really good shortcut to shitting on them and their cultures #implying they're dirty or animalistic or cruel or undiscerning or have bad taste #this isn't crying RACISM AGAINST WHITE PPL btw #just saying. maybe in general we should shut the fuck up about finding entire schools of cooking gross #and it's interesting you know. bc Americans in the notes of the American food posts recognise there are race and class sensitivities there #but not that there might be similar sensitivities around mocking another country's food

[rongzhi]

Evaluating American-style Chinese cuisine

English added by me :)

#douyin #video #tiktok #this is fucking sending me #as someone who in 1st grade had to sit through a classmate's 'international cuisine: china' presentation #wherein one of the foods she named was MACARONI SOUP #like. did we eat macaroni and cheese every tuesday for convenience when i was a child? yes. and was it fucking soupy? yes. but MACARONI汤?!? #and i did not know what the fuck orange chicken or general tso's chicken was until well into middle school #also until literally the moment i was double checking my translation just know #i've been thinking it was general tsao's chicken #*did not know what the fuck orange chicken was until schools combined for middle school & new ppl started asking if i liked orange chicken #my mom's friend owned a chinese buffet and that's basically where i tried american chinese food for the first time #and then her son made me sit there and watch him play sonic and halo on xbox #also did not know the difference between the chickens until literally this video #anyway diaspora experience amiright #cw food

[antiquatedplumbobs]

no one, absolutely no one: .....

me: ...i think i need to build a 1920s Chinese restaurant...

#anyone else obsessed with the history of american chinese food? just me? cool #absolutely need to rename edwardian promenade because i have just fully leaned into the 20s vibes #ts4 wip #sims 4 wip #wip

[americaisdead]

atwater village, los angeles. august 2023

© tag christof

#tag christof #chinese food #american surfaces #leica m #voigtländer #28mm

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

im devastated. i got a microwaveable curry from costco and. its not good. Why

#I JUST WANT FLAVOR. PLEASE. THE LACK OF SPICES IN MY LIFE RN- #i didnt see that the label said 'mango' #and its unexpectedly peppery #two flavors i Do Not Like! #which is deeply unfortunate bc i can taste how good it is Under those two prevailing flavors! #i wasted rice on this.... #i thought i was about to have a decadent as fuck breakfast... #now im just sad! i miss having access to so many different places for the occasional takeout... #no thai... no indian... no chinese... no korean... no japanese... no mexican... #im Suffering out here. i can go get subway or mediocre burgers. thats pretty much it #cmonnnn american cuisine tends to be so fucking bland.... i want Flavor... where is the Flavor.... #my taste buds are crying. they're sobbing. they are Wailing #absolutely unprompted #ive started to daydream about all my favorite restaurants ive been to #brazilian barbeque... shabu shabu... my beloved chinese takeout location... korean bbq... roadside tamale stand... #farmers market bao vendor... french bakery... the place with Banger pad see ew... the sushi restaurant with awesome bento & veggie rolls... #the boba store with delicious dragonfruit bowls... mall mongolian bbq... hibachi.... tea houses... many many more... #MAN IM MAKING MYSELF SO HUNGRY #nothing in this house or in this town will satisfy me #one of my great loves in life has been taken away! Flavor! delicious food! Where Is She!

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #food #recipes #cassyeungmoney #american born chinese #disney #disney+

[wikipediapictures]

Crab Rangoon

#crab rangoon #wontons #fried wontons #wikipedia #wikipedia pictures #food #food and drink #american chinese food #sweet chili sauce

[tiktoksformyfriends]

there's a culture war going on right now on tiktok where britsh people are making videos of them unboxing and plating up their chinese takeaway, and americans roasting them relentlessly because said takeaway consists mostly of chips (thick-cut french fries), chicken balls (chicken bites that appear to be battered and fried), egg fried rice with no vegetables, and full cups of sauce (usually one brown curry and one bright red... sweet and sour?) that are poured liberally over the entire meal

#look i get that the food of immigrants shifts and adapts to the culture of the country they live in #and american chinese food isn't authentic either #but it looks like shit ngl

[brunchbinch]

General Tso’s chicken

#general tso #general tsos chicken #general tsos chicken recipe #Chinese chicken recipe #chicken #chicken recipe #Chinese recipe #Chinese food #Chinese American food #food #food blog #recipe #dinner #dinner ideas #dinner recipes

[savorydream]

#beef #beef and broccoli #beef and broccoli noodles #food #broccoli #asian food #american chinese food

[morethansalad]

Daylily Flower Vegetable Lo Mein (Vegan)

#vegan #lunch #dinner #chinese cuisine #american cuisine #noodle bowl #lo mein #noodles #daylily #edible flowers #wild food #mushrooms #bell peppers #water chestnuts #napa cabbage #green onion #sriracha #hoisin sauce #mirin #soy sauce #sesame oil #ginger #garlic #onion

[everythingwithwasabi]

General Tso's Crispy Tofu

#food #vegan #chinese food #tofu #rice bowl #mushrooms #vegetables #rice #maple syrup #comfort food #recipe #american food