Myths About Chinese Food You Should Stop Believing

[@MashedFood]

What myths do you wish would stop being spread?

[@love-wp5fy]

the fact that im not racist

[@sd-ch2cq]

That all immigrant Chinese have the same customs everywhere: f.i. European Chinese restaurants don't use red&white boxes and usually don't have fortune cookies.

[@xihangyang]

msg myth

[@vive335]

@@sd-ch2cq it depends on which Chinese restaurant you go to in the US

[@vive335]

@@xihangyang eating MSG won’t kill you, just don’t overuse it in everything as anything is harmful in large quantities

[@cmlevy]

In fact, the Chinese take-out boxes are designed to become plates. Take the metal handle off and unfold the box.

[@sd-ch2cq]

'it is cheap because staff are underpaid' And than these cheapskate customers turn around and blame the chinese cook and server for being poor and exploited and living in squalor.

[@thewen]

chinese food culture is almost 3000 years old. there are dishes and techniques over 2000 years old

[@Haywood-Jablomie]

I'll let you in on a little secret... ALL countries as well as EVERY human being has a history of eating food. That means every culture and nation has a food history as old as the day the first human set foot on their claimed land. 😉

[@theinternational397]

Yet there are more Michelin stars held by Japanese restaurants in Los Angeles alone than all of China for all cuisines. 3000 years doesn’t mean a thing when the cuisine is clearly inferior even to Japanese.

[@Teardehawkee]

Don't forget the Oyster Sauce!

[@patrickchilds9620]

Invented in Hong Kong by accident about 1870 and the original Lee Kum Kee with the woman and boy oyster fishing. Ironically, because it was Hong Kong which cooks Cantonese cuisine as did the vast majority of Chinese Americans at the time, Oyster sauce was better known in America than the rest of China for decades. Lee Kum Kee has a factory in the US now.

[@youlikedyourowncomment5151]

Use oyster sauce for fried rice, youre welcome.

[@SunRise-lr7ch]

I want a bamboo steamer.

[@jimroth2473]

We’ve worn two of them out. Their great.

[@Haywood-Jablomie]

You're both in luck !! I happen to identify as a gender non binary cheddarsexual vegan lopsided Bamboo Steamer !!!! Please use the proper pronouns while praising me for my stunning bravery .

[@hollyfink6168]

My son was in China a number of years ago with his college. He was starving by the time he got home. They were offered so many options but all had to share. About 5 we’re gone and 25 were left untouched.

[@followmeillfollowyoufood9018]

🤔🤔🤔

[@bossel]

2:23 Jennifer 8 Lee didn't need to uncover anything, because this has been long known. Most of the 'myths' are not myths at all, but simply over-generalisations. & it's a bit silly to say that broccoli is not part of Chinese traditional cooking because it doesn't grow there naturally. Neither does chili. Yet, quite a number of 'traditionally Chinese' dishes would be recognisable without chili.

[@theinternational397]

And dog and cat meat are common in Chinese food. That’s been confirmed countless times by health inspectors worldwide.

[@LouisHansell]

@4:37... I disagree with this attitude toward 'authenticity'. Chop Suey was a Chinese creation, albeit in America, and is over 100 years old. Some of the other Chinese dishes created here are almost 200 years old. Created by Chinese - isn't that authentic Chinese? Are the Chinese who created it less Chinese than Chinese in any other country? Are third-and-fourth generation Chinese Americans not authentically Chinese, because their ancestors were born here?

[@user-me1mv4vy9q]

I'm guessing by dat, they just mean not traditonal since it was catered more towards a Western audience, which is wut some immigrants had to do if they wanted to make a living there

[@kevinbrady6075]

A Navy SEAL in 1952?NOPE!

[@annecollins1741]

Chinese food is delicious and I enjoy it bite after bite.

[@williamkeels5160]

that its Chinese

[@Daniel-je1eq]

most the Chinese foods are so oily, not good for your health

[@OhioGuy216]

How about gutter oil?

[@user-me1mv4vy9q]

Myths on Halal food would be interesting

[@jamespyle777]

This still does not explain why Panda Express does not serve General Chicken.

[@101life9]

America Chinese food is healthy. In fact just the opposite 🙃😅

[@followmeillfollowyoufood9018]

Oooo 💪💪💪

[@stangiles2001]

Yeah , some right but mostly wrong, 1000s of regions,

[@stangiles2001]

Lots of broccoli, exactly the same And cauliflower in china

[@veezhang6988]

5:36 Broccoli is called "western cauliflower" in Mandarin for a reason

[@Grassmpl]

I'm surprised that dong bei cuisine is not popular in the west. I love sauerkraut and rib stew.

[@Heidi-Beth]

Love it!

[@stangiles2001]

China has chicken Maryland And orange chicken

[@johnyannacci4413]

The Navy Seals weren't founded until 1962.

[@UncleBuZ]

I was a Seal in a sub jump team. Jumped into Fallujah with Jeremy Dewitte attached to a Ranger Battalion. UDT Seals were 1943

[@Haywood-Jablomie]

I identify as a Seal... I mean the animal

[@zillsburyy1]

is it still made from dimsum?

[@stangiles2001]

It does have the same takeout boxes everywhere

[@reyanthony3133]

How about MSG? We put MSG in our food while cooking.

[@lant7123]

I put MSG in my food too... whenever I use tomatoes, corn, mushrooms, Parmesan, etc. It's a naturally occurring part of these foods, and it does not hurt people. Italian food? Very high in MSG.

[@amit_patel654]

Life is a lie

[@mvrko8064]

You need schooling on cats and dogs!! They are not for stir fry!!!

[@brandonsandacz2863]

🚬🤔🤙 👙

[@Heidi-Beth]

Love it!

[@Haywood-Jablomie]

Thank you. I love you too

[@romanumeralz]

Can I get some extra plum sauce? 🍶

[@llydrsn]

The narrator's voice is soothing. But the background music is so loud and distracting, the person who put it in should be sent to clean the toilets.

[@Prettygirlstunna]

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