re: Authentic Chinese

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People think they want authentic Chinese food until they realize it's eel heads sauted in a gravy of peppers, possum bladder, and lithium, served over rice steamed with turd water.

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I don't think many people know what authentic chinese food is.

Hot Pot is terrible. Boiling meat/seafood in flavored spice water.
cow stomach is popular, and tastes like arse.
Tofu isn't good and that's everywhere.

The lunches I had when I visited China where given to us in a tupperware. Had some kind of peppered steak or shrimp or spiced chicken, some steamed vegetable and white rice.


I was there for 6 nights and when I landed back in America and saw the Shake Shack in the Dallas airport I immediately ordered a burger and devoured it, and it tasted like the best hamburger i'd ever eaten.
I love eating different types of food and what not, but the authentic food I had in China was mostly arse. I don't recall anything I ate that was good, and I wasn't picking where we ate, as our hosts from our company where obviously chinese and brought us everywhere. Doesn't matter what meat it was, shrimp or beef, it always had this arse smell to it.

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I had co-workers who would take factory trips to China every year and describe the horrors of meals. They started just packing a luggage bag full of trail mix to survive the week. I remember one description was the lunches at the factory looked like a tackle box full of unidentifiable dehydrated fish and assorted critters.

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My brother got to tour the country as part of a sales trip. He visited the Great Wall and a bunch of other stuff. What does he talk about? Having to use the bathroom with no toilet or toilet paper and the horrific nature of the food the average person there is eating.

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I remember one description was the lunches at the factory looked like a tackle box full of unidentifiable dehydrated fish and assorted critters.

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That's not far off from my experience.

The only good thing i ate was the breakfast buffet at the hotel, and I was staying at big international hotels in SHanghai, so it was more of an american breakfast buffet.



One of the things i noticed with China is while they make everything for everyone else in the world, there's very little that's authentic chinese. I couldn't even find something authentic chinese to buy as a souvenir for my wife. When the "new China" as they call it took over, they erased the past as much as they possibly could.

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I remember one description was the lunches at the factory looked like a tackle box full of unidentifiable dehydrated fish and assorted critters.

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Can confirm. My wife eats some weird and funky shite. Lots of dried and smelly seafood and fungus items and lots of pickled things (mustard greens, various roots and other strange vegetables). Most of the time, we cook separate meals b/c much of her stuff is not appealing to me.

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Kenner Louisiana