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echevil on April 30, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: China Doesn't Understand the Concept of American C...

Yeah, American Chinese food is mostly Cantonese, which is only one of the eight major cuisines in China. Even if it were exactly the same as Cantonese food in China (it is not, apparently), it would still be unfamiliar to most Chinese people

scruple on April 30, 2017 [–]

And, even then, there is an undeniable Western influence on quite a bit of "modern" Cantonese food, even in Hong Kong itself.

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