'Asian' Dishes INVENTED In the USA! Did You Know?

[@wiikends]

Not too long ago i thought most of what was mentioned was asian food. Do have to say most western asian dishes were done for money in mind

[@tnductai]

they were created to sell

[@Obscurai]

Chop Suey 雜碎 literally means "mixed scraps" in Cantonese.

[@Michael-yi4mc]

System of a Down band plays a song called Chop Suey.

[@tadaoxu4651]

Imitation crab originated in Japan. It’s pulverized whitefish made into solid form called Surimi. There are different forms of Surimi.

[@jamesburns679]

California roll is from Canada. CA roll. C = Crab A = Avocado.

[@kshinokevin]

Chop Suey, Chow Fun, Chow Mein, Look Fun, Peking (Beijing) Duck and Jiaji (Hainan) Duck (I loved eating the latter in Thailand: with steaming hot (white, long grain) rice), Mabo Tofu, Won Ton Mein, Char Siu Bao (steamed pork dumplings), Shumai (Hawaii "pork hash"), Sweet and Sour Spareribs, Taiwan Mushi (Hawaii's "pork tofu casserole" that features either pork or chicken); Beef and Broccoli, Egg Foo Young (Egg Fu Yung), Orange Chicken, General Tso's Chicken; Bing (Chinese pancakes); (Korean ("Galbi")/Chinese) Kalbi (shortribs), Mandoo, Kim Chi/Chee, Tangsuyuk (Korean: 탕수육): sweet and sour spareribs (pork or beef); Buchimgae (Korean pancakes); Teriyaki Chicken (Hawaii: teriyaki was a Japanese marinade); Sukiyaki (hot pot); Okonomiyaki (Japanese pancake); Crab Rangoon (Chinese, CaucAsian, Tiki bar, Burmese; 'Rangoon' comes from the word, "Yangon" is the old capital of Burma (now Myanmar) ); Fortune Cookies, Cali(fornia) or Philly ("sushi") Rolls; sizzling Mongolian Beef platters, and one of my favorites, Fried Rice. Chop Suey and Fried Rice feels like a Gumbo (Creole) or Jambalaya (Cajun / Louisiana French), unlike Chop Suey, both New Orleans' dishes contain rice. Ajinomoto/MSG soup ("dashi" in Japanese): my favorite condiment. Bourbon, lemon, almond, or cashew chicken = Hmmm.. Kraft (Heinz) Foods is the company who invented the Philadelphia Cream Cheese; but the HQ was in Chicago, ILLinois. I expect some of these kind of foods, is this type/genre/class of cuisine, "Asian fusion," invented in America, ever since the 1970's ? = East Asian, Southeast Asian or South Asian (Desi: Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Maldives, Afghanistan); Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or Filipino cuisine; The Filipino one, the original "Asian fusion cuisine," combines Chinese, Malaysia, Spain; probably Australia; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_cuisine - "Fusion cuisine" (wikipedia)

[@tnductai]

bonus: the little take-out box from chinese restaurant is also created in the us!

[@CliftonDon74]

Nice one, guys! My dad had a couple of Chinese restaurants back in the 80's-90's and had to adjust the menu to cater to the American pallette to maintain the customers and business. There is 1 dish that he had that I have not found in any of other Chinese restaurants I have visited. Mango Chicken. It's just slices of mango in between sliced chicken that has been breaded and fried. Simple dish, but the mango sauce was 🔥

[@mrmosk2011]

The Chinese restaurant I worked in college is famous for the General Tso's chicken. I prefer General Tso's over orange chicken, mainly because I don't like sweet main course. I did not know fortune cookie was invented by a Japanese immigrant. Most of the deep fried dishes are likely American, since deep fry is not common in Asia. Most of the deep fried food in China are deserts.

[@Based_Proletariat]

General Tso chicken is bussin'. So is bourbon chicken, I remember getting that at Asian restaurants at the food court at the mall, they also serve bourbon chicken at Golden Corral.

[@ResidualSelfImage]

Traditional Asian ingredients were expensive and harder to find before economic globalization of the 1990s. When China got the Most Favored Trading status prices of Asian food stuff dropped and making traditional Asian dishes became more affordable and doable.

[@kurlexchoi]

Chop Suey actually meant Mixed Veggies and the only dish I enjoy eating the most is Buddhist Delight-Lo Hon Jai. Crab Rangoon consisted of no crab meat. The original Egg Foo Young is either pan fried or wok fried like pancake style, but in U.S. they mixed with bean sprout and flour and deep fried in patty. Fortune Cookie is pretty much the same type of egg flour with sugar making egg puffs and of course people would still enjoy eating them. General Tso suppose to be General Tao. Also! Cuisines like Panda Express probably cooked their Fried Rice differently too compared those from Southern China. Their Rice is dark color. Lots of people think is consisted of soy sauce, but food coloring was applied to its cooking. Since the name called Fried Rice so they intend to burn it with smoke, but is not. And pretty sure is not brown rice. Actual Fried Rice still looked white after is cooked in the wok.

[@lockiet7227]

Plz stop with the clickbait thumbnails putting girls on it. It reeks desperation. Quality channels don’t need to act this way my guys

[@dtna]

Yeah. No need, 'bros.

[@Michael-yi4mc]

I once ordered chop suey in Maryland in the 1970’s from a Chinese restaurant. Two black cooks prepared it with brown turkey gravy over mung beans sprouts.

[@lisasawyer2346]

Some of the best Asian foods were conceived in the US! Fortune Cookies, General Tso's Chicken (don't even know who General Tso was😊), Orange Chicken, Broccoli and Beef Stir fry, Crab Rangoon, California roll, some sushi has been redefined to fit the US tastes, Chop Suey, Spicy Honey chicken, Egg Foo Young, Bourbon chicken, and in my part of the south and my personal favorite is Cashew Chicken! I am sure there a lot more that I didn't think of. Some US people of Asian descent love these dishes!

[@BNcherrypeppermint]

I love your daily videos. You guys always have such insightful and thought provoking answers. And I love the spot on accents 😂

[@TenchiBushi]

Here in Japan, we have the term "Japanized Western Food" at different restaurants. Some restaurants specialize in that.

[@karaoke888]

Asian "inspired" food!

[@rj1trrc680]

La kalbi didn’t come from La California. It’s named La for lateral cut meat. La kalbi is the method of cutting the meat and bones.

[@cubo8579]

Chinatown established in 1594 in Philippines chopsuey feels like a household dish in the Philippines. But the mystery is how this was created in America ,1884. Food gets evolution in its own way.

[@SvetlanaTurner]

I like the Chinatown shirt❤

[@ThinkPraise]

Now I want to order my Chinese food for dinner! No problem with the topic. Thanks

[@Acetk]

Philadelphia Cream Cheese was actually made in New York funny enough lol

[@Buydaa.M]

I just love American Chinese food, especially Panda Express

[@gian19791]

Commercialized and Americanized is good 😂😮😅

[@yeastori]

There is a sandwich with egg foo young called a St Paul Sandwich that is really popular in like Seattle and Missouri

[@Ash_Wen-li]

As a Canadian I don't know what the hell strawberry/tangerine beef are 😂 Ginger beef is a thing here though at some Hakka places but I think I've seen it less and less over the years

[@JT-yj3tr]

I was wondering about that too… never heard of strawberry/ tangerine beef here in Vancouver

[@ginNjus]

Yup. Invented in Calgary Canada.

[@antoniopinckney]

Your seeing more fusion dishes like the cheese steak egg rolls, Yakimein.

[@Razear]

So basically all of the dishes that cater to the Western palette were conceived in America. Who knew? The only folks that care about whether a particular dish is authentic or not are culinary snobs. If it tastes good, that's all that should matter. I couldn't care less about its creator or its geographic origin.

[@Bluboy30]

I love orange chicken and General Tso chicken. I don't care for either the Philly or California rolls, I don't even consider those sushi. Just lame items rolled up in rice. Lol!

[@Michael-yi4mc]

Char siu and dim sum is very sweet. Americans love their sugar.

[@Ash_Wen-li]

I feel like most of these dishes are pretty difficult to get outside of America. Except for the California roll. That invention was done so well, people tend to think of it as authentic sushi instead of nigiri sushi

[@lasserbream]

Lemon chicken and honey king prawn was invented in Australia.

[@meatjun2584]

Don’t forget about Hawaii. Spam musubi and meatjun

[@Michael-yi4mc]

Aloha, brah!

[@gian19791]

They also have Szechuan beef 🥩 and Mongolian bar be que made in USA 🇺🇸

[@jvines11]

general tso is my favorite.

[@gian19791]

Wow I didn’t know fortune cookies from Japan 🇯🇵 not China 🇨🇳 I can never look at a fortune the same again 😂

[@AwsomeSauce]

Look, I'm fat, and I like food, I give full acknowledgment every day like today when I gain new information that some things I grew up eating wasn't authentic and I'm totally fine with it, still going to eat it, but also if I'm introduced to more authentic food from around the world I'm still going to try it out.

[@juliemackenzie1978]

I'm from Canada & I have never heard of Strawberry Beef or Tangerine Beef. 😳🤷🏻‍♀️ Not in Edmonton, Alberta. Canada. 🇨🇦🍁 I don't eat Canadian Chinese food very often, but, it's OK.

[@Ginger30161]

Garlic noodles. invented in San Francisco.

[@0xBasedChang]

la galbi is lateral cut not LA.

[@rudyhawk]

Philidelphia roll using cheesesteak. Sign me up.

[@ginNjus]

Who cares as long as it taste good. Adopting and improvising to your environment. The Pekin restaurant in Butte Montana is the perfect example.

[@TekAngRugbeeProp]

Egg Fu Yong is originally from China. At least the one in North America is a derived version en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_foo_young

[@nmlobos]

If fung bros were a dish lol

[@gian19791]

Watching this makes me thinking 🤔 twice if I’m eating real Asian food or not 😮😅

[@alvinmah6148]

Orange chicken is american chinese food. There nothing unauthentic about it. Just like how Chinese dishes have evolved over the different dynasties. And China was made up of different nations before the unification.

[@kazi1]

Hi

[@cyberpixels]

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[@jmedz893]

This whole debate reminds me of those snobs who criticise Chinese takeaways after backpacking in Asia & saying that takeaways aren't "authentic" Chinese .. Going to Wagamama or Hakkasan or Din Tai Fung isn't a bouji "upgrade" just because you earned a bit of money, travelled the world & found out that there's more to Asian food than Chinese takeaways .. I would rather have an affordable chicken chow mein from my local, stick on an old school Andy Lau or Chow Yun Fat film, & stuff my face whilst watching the action go down. How many of these hipster snobs know about that life ?

[@inui12494]

Filipino cuisine has not made it to america yet because it hasnt been americanizd yet which i love

[@jamesburns679]

except for ube

[@wiikends]

Something that's is almost decently known is halo halo 😋 even though im sure it changes from the Ph

[@gregorypetty6887]

@@wiikends Halo Halo is a Filipino dessert that is derived from a Japanese dessert in Japan called "Kakigori"

[@jvines11]

Isn't lumpia pretty well known?

[@UpInYourGrills]

Jollibee has.

[@asianmovement]

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[@kshinokevin]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ooeogattgceAeNk - What does the “rangoon” mean in crab rangoon? 🥟 (9:38) - by: LookCatchu on Feb 19, 2022 #crabrangoon #creamcheesewonton; And now you know why its called crab rangoon :)

[@kshinokevin]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2ewi2muf9h-gJI - Fried wonton history (From Fried Wonton to Crab Rangoon) (9:52) - by: American Chinese Food Show on Jun 16, 2023; Trader Vic's; This is a full circle story showing the ingenuity of Chinese restaurants and how Cantonese fried wonton became a pseudo-Polynesian cocktail snack, then eventually settled as an American Chinese appetizer.

[@massvt3821]

How about moo goo gai pan?