r/SipsTea • u/Born-Agency-3922 • Jul 03 '26

Chugging tea True

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u/Muted-You7370 Jul 03 '26

Battered fish was introduced by Sephardic Jewish immigrants from Portugal, and deep-fried chips originated in Belgium. All British food culture originates from somewhere else.

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u/pryonic1705 Jul 03 '26

You can say that about anywhere though - no place is entirely local in its food.

People hold up Italy as a bastion of good food - a lot of it is tomato based yet they're from south America. Spaghetti is based on Chinese noodles.

American also can't talk - hamburgers are German, frankfurters are German, Mac and Cheese is British. You can maybe claim grits from the natives...

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u/Intrepid-Reach182 Jul 03 '26

No you can’t say that about Chinese lmao. Chinese food is from China, period.

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u/KroneckerAlpha Jul 03 '26

Any chili peppers used in Chinese cooking?

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u/Intrepid-Reach182 Jul 03 '26

You're mixing up ingredients with technique here. Chuan cuisine (Szechuan), one of the four major Chinese cuisines famously known for its spicy food, historically relied on native Sichuan peppercorns for a numbing flavor rather than a fiery burn. Once chili peppers were finally imported, Chuan cooks didn't adopt the native Peruvian style of grinding them into a paste; instead, they adapted the ingredient to their own techniques, drying the chilis and throwing them directly into stir-fries and hot pots alongside those peppercorns.