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Surprised Dave hasn’t posted his tossed salad video yet.
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The English excel at taking the food of others and making it great. You don’t get curries, Italian / Chinese / Thai food like you do in the U.K. doner kebabs in Australia were an abomination.
Sorry Benson, I can’t speak for other cuisines but on Chinese you’re definitely wrong.
Only Cantonese and Sichuan cuisine have ever really made it over here. Cantonese because of Hong Kong, Sichuan because the Sichuanese were traditionally dirt poor and migrated out all over the place, in much the same way the southern Italians did.
British people don’t even know about the eight great styles, because they’re only exposed to a sanitised approximation of two of them (maybe three if you count a smattering of Hunanese restaurants in London).
Beijing Imperial Cuisine knocks absolutely any British Chinese food on its arse. Over centuries, the best Chinese chefs and their families and traditions have migrated to the capital, either voluntarily by the capital’s pull, or forcefully by governments and dynasties.
And if you’ve been to Beijing or Shanghai and thought the food wasn’t great, you’ve been taken to shit places.
I’d like to see a Beijing Chef try and knock up a sweet and sour prawn balls and chips.
They wouldn’t even know where to start.
Smallman1 I’d like to see a Beijing Chef try and knock up a sweet and sour prawn balls and chips.
They wouldn’t even know where to start.
Undoubtedly they could.
You see it’s expected that a top ranking Beijing chef will have been trained in at least four styles, possibly by travelling around the country doing apprenticeships.
Chips are easy, all you need is a deep fryer. The Chinese know how to deep fry things, trust me.
Take it you didn’t go to Prezzo Kells?
Are the curry chips good in Beijing?
I used to think I didn’t like much Chinese food. But living adjacent to Chinatown now I realized it’s the western or Americanized versions I’m not a fan of - far too sweet. Love the shandong style.
jonattonyeah I used to think I didn’t like much Chinese food. But living adjacent to Chinatown now I realized it’s the western or Americanized versions I’m not a fan of - far too sweet. Love the shandong style.
Congratulations on not being a total fucking idiot, Jonattan
We all have our moments of clarity, Dave.
Almost all the Chinese takeaways where I live are absolute wank. It all tastes the same. I wouldn’t even feed it to my dog.
I bet they all look the same too, Dubbers