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A person on the internet claimed she couldn't eat Chinese restaurant food because it was inauthentic, made for white people, and always contained MSG. When she ate Chinese food, she only ate "real" Chinese food, not that Americanized stuff. And she could always tell if it was real or not; MSG gave her an immediate headache and she felt like she would throw up.

Hello Karen.

Please don't eat here.

That "authentic" Chinese food versus "made for white people" dichotomy is really insulting. It's a form of snobbish superiority. If a Chinese food vendor makes what the customers in that area want to buy, why is it not authentic? Should they not make something because it isn't "authentic"? Should they only sell "real" Chinese food and go out of business? Bittermelon with Chinese sausage (炒臘腸涼瓜 'chaau laahp cheung leng gwaa') is authentic, Portuguese chicken rice (焗葡國雞飯 'guk pou gwok gai faan') as sold in a HK-style chachanteng likewise; good luck selling either of those to white people or Mandarin speakers. I've seen Cantonese diners happily chow down on porkchop over spaghetti with tomato sauce as well as typically American chicken chow mein. Baked charsiu buns and egg rolls in Chinatown are mostly for the tourists, yet every part of those is authentic.


"Just steam some vegetables and tofu for me, okay?"


Plain no-sauce chopsuey for the snooty white person coming up. No problem. Don't add salt, cornstarch, or oil. Maybe you weren't supposed to survive civilized life?

Broccoli is a genetically modified organism, as is nearly everything we eat. Per Wikipedia: "Broccoli resulted from breeding of landrace Brassica crops in the northern Mediterranean starting in about the sixth century BCE. Broccoli has its origins in primitive cultivars grown in the Roman Empire and was most likely improved via artificial selection in the Southern Italian Peninsula or Sicily. Broccoli was spread to northern Europe by the 18th century and brought to North America in the 19th century by Italian immigrants. After WWII, breeding of United States and Japanese F1 hybrids increased yields, quality, growth speed, and regional adaptation. This produced the cultivars that have been the most popular since, 'Premium Crop', 'Packman', and 'Marathon'.[end cite]

So is quinoa, which is processed to make it edible.

Broccoli beef with brown rice?

Hoo 你嘅 hah!




Spam, egg, and Sriracha for lunch.
Over a big pile of rice.
真好食!




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