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How to Improve Bad Asian Food

Old Mar 29, 2011, 1:06 pm
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Originally Posted by SOhp101
OT rant, to any non-asians: PLEASE don't ever add soy sauce to your rice when eating at the table. You will be perceived either as rude or juvenile.
Then what am I supposed to do with the dark soy that they keep giving me with my chicken rice in Singapore?
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Old Mar 29, 2011, 3:22 pm
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http://theoatmeal.com/comics/sriracha

I think this comic is perfect for this topic!
That is brilliant, I even posted it to Facebook so all could enjoy it!

Anyway, I've often found putting meh Asian food in a tortilla and eating it as leftovers with some sweet Chili sauce makes it way better. Although I always eat my Asian leftovers cold and I find that often helps.
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Old Mar 29, 2011, 4:01 pm
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Originally Posted by JumboJ
Then what am I supposed to do with the dark soy that they keep giving me with my chicken rice in Singapore?
Dip your chicken in the sauce and eat with the rice. ^
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Old Mar 29, 2011, 4:15 pm
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Originally Posted by meester69
Well not exactly. The thing I picked up from the OP's post is 'how on earth can you have pan-Asian?', Asia is vast and diverse, .
From a Chinese view, any cuisine that is European or N. American is generally just labelled "western food" so it works both ways. If you know someone who calls any cuisine from Asia "Asian" but loves Italian or French food, you could bug them by calling it or all other food from Europe "european food".
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Old Mar 29, 2011, 5:04 pm
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Originally Posted by YVR Cockroach
From a Chinese view, any cuisine that is European or N. American is generally just labelled "western food" so it works both ways. If you know someone who calls any cuisine from Asia "Asian" but loves Italian or French food, you could bug them by calling it or all other food from Europe "european food".
Or call anything involving chiles, potatoes, corn, most of the berries, sweet potatoe, tomatoe as American-XXX fusion. Or should it be Columbian Exchange influenced?
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Old Mar 29, 2011, 9:33 pm
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Tee hee, this thread has gotten silly.

No, I didn't support mom-in-law's decision to get chicken with fruit, but I almost never understand what she's thinking anyway. And it seemed a shame to have it go to waste...I really, really hate throwing out meat. An animal died for this, after all.

Joy Yee IS pan-Asian...though I suppose it would be more accurate to call it pan-Oriental, since they don't have any Indian, Kazakhstani, or Iranian food. But "Oriental" is a naughty word these days, so everyone just says "Asian". I've always thought it equally rude to lump all of Asia together as if it were just one homogenous mass.

And for what it's worth, each dish I've had at Joy Yee's seems more akin to what I've had in its respective country than the generic "Chinese" or "Vietnamese" food I have seen elsewhere.

And yeah, The Oatmeal rocks.
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Old Mar 29, 2011, 9:44 pm
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Originally Posted by SOhp101
Dip your chicken in the sauce and eat with the rice. ^
After you've mixed in the sweet chili sauce, minced/grated ginger and garlic.
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Old Mar 30, 2011, 5:51 am
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Regarding generic "Asian" food, unless you live in an area with a large minority population of Chinese, the "Chinese" food will most likely be a mishmash of Americanized Chinese, random Japanese, and Korean food in one restaurant. Chinese restaurant serving Korean BBQ and California rolls? dime a dozen in suburban middle-America... Even in "pure" Chinese restaurants in non -Chinese neighborhoods, the food will be mostly modified for American tastes. Restauranteurs probably figure diners will douse all their food with extra soy sauce or sriacha sauce anyways. *shrug* It's not all their fault, the restaurant owners have a tough uphill battle trying to get people to eat "different Chinese" food.

Soy sauce packets with Singaporean chicken with rice is a different scenario. That dish has so many personal "versions" that people are expected to dip/dab/dunk/drown their dish with whatever condiments they want.

Adding soy sauce or sriacha can make ANY food taste better. Not just badly made Chinese food. *shrug*
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Old Mar 30, 2011, 11:27 am
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I think there are a few things that can be considered American

Buttermilk pancakes, especially served with sausages and syrup
Clam chowder
Fried chicken with biscuits
Pecan pie
Mealoaf with mashed potato and creamy gravy
Philly cheesteak
Red velvet cake
PB&J
Turkey with yams covered in marshmallows
Grits

And fajitas and chow mein... apparently!
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Old Mar 30, 2011, 9:53 pm
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I think there are a few things that can be considered American

Buttermilk pancakes, especially served with sausages and syrup
Clam chowder
Fried chicken with biscuits
Pecan pie
Mealoaf with mashed potato and creamy gravy
Philly cheesteak
Red velvet cake
PB&J
Turkey with yams covered in marshmallows
Grits

And fajitas and chow mein... apparently!
add General Tso's chicken too :P
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Old Mar 30, 2011, 9:56 pm
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Originally Posted by SOhp101
Dip your chicken in the sauce and eat with the rice. ^
I spread the soy sauce on the rice and dip the chicken in the chilly sauce.
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Old Mar 31, 2011, 6:08 pm
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Originally Posted by emma69
I think there are a few things that can be considered American

Buttermilk pancakes, especially served with sausages and syrup
Clam chowder
Fried chicken with biscuits
Pecan pie
Mealoaf with mashed potato and creamy gravy
Philly cheesteak
Red velvet cake
PB&J
Turkey with yams covered in marshmallows
Grits

And fajitas and chow mein... apparently!
Chow mein as served in 90% of Chinese restaurants in the US is "American" for sure.
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Old Mar 31, 2011, 7:55 pm
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Originally Posted by jakuda
Chow mein as served in 90% of Chinese restaurants in the US is "American" for sure.
What is it like in Hong Kong? I couldn't find it there and I tried.
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Old Mar 31, 2011, 9:05 pm
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Originally Posted by emma69
I think there are a few things that can be considered American

Buttermilk pancakes, especially served with sausages and syrup
Clam chowder
Fried chicken with biscuits
Pecan pie
Mealoaf with mashed potato and creamy gravy
Philly cheesteak
Red velvet cake
PB&J
Turkey with yams covered in marshmallows
Grits

And fajitas and chow mein... apparently!
Don't forget Chop Suey and Egg Rolls. Then there is APPLE PIE
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Old Mar 31, 2011, 10:06 pm
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Egg Rolls are Asian.
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