Westerners are ignorant. What a shocker.

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Lol “westerners” is such a broad group of people that this comment makes you look ignorant.

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Cope, seethe, and order crab rangoons and shrimp fried rice instead of 辣子鸡.

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辣子鸡

Sounds interesting. Wonder what Sichuan peppers taste like.

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OP did not write that article for The Economist

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The Economist, well known tankie publication, all their staff browse lemmygrad

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I author content at the economist so I can post it here and double dip on the clout.

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Not understanding the prevalence of orientalism makes you look ignorant

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found the westerner

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Okay, yanqui debatelords are ignorant.

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Although Chinese food is pretty diverse, I don’t want to be that foreigner who travels to that one small village in the middle of bumfuck China where they serve a village delicacy of virgin piss eggs.

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I guarantee that is not going to be the only thing on offer.

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I know it’s not the only thing they have to offer, but it’s one dish I will be sure to avoid my whole life if at all possible.

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virgin piss eggs

I’m genuinely confused what you’re imagining here, but I’m going to guess it’s probably not a real food

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I don’t remember the vid title, but there is a video on Bilibili of a Chinese national who does things like food reviews who actually went to this very remote place to investigate and try one of the eggs.

I’ll have to try and either find it, or a yt reupload.

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Here is a video in Chinese of someone from Hong Kong trying them.

Piped Link

YT link if other fails

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A YouTube link was detected in your comment. Here are links to the same video on Invidious, which is a YouTube frontend that protects your privacy:

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It’s also generally healthier than american food I would assume

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It depends. Definitely tastier.

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Yeah, McDonald’s tastes like cardboard

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I think this mostly has to do with the extensive use of vegetables cooked in various tasty ways. Western dishes (specifically West European) seem to have very few good techniques to cook vegetables, leading white children to hate veggies. I think this is exacerbated in Britain and their Anglo-Saxon colonies (cue the meme about British food having no seasoning).

Also, proper Asian dishes tend not to actually use much oil. Stir frying only lightly coats the outside of food with oil, very different from western deep frying.

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Anecdotally, I feel less greasy and sludgy after eating fried Sichuan dishes than comparable fried Western dishes.

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Really depends but they do use a ton of oil.

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Chinese food is so good and diverse. I had this spicy white fish dish once in Guangdong that was just incredible, I think about it often lol, can’t remember what it was called

That being said there is something about american chinese food that makes me crave it from time to time (probably all the salt and sugar)

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I think that might be the dish thanks !!

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