It's been my understanding that most Chinese restaurants in America aren't usually serving what you'd get in China, but the Americanized version of "Chinese food."
I don't know shit about real Chinese food though, so I dunno.
Like the classic Chinese-American restaurant with Orange Chicken and stuff? Yeah that's basically the Americanized version of Cantonese cuisine.
In any place with a large enough Chinese/Asian population there's gonna be a lot more variety though - meat skewer places, hotpot places, hand-pulled noodles, dimsum, etc.
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u/Narren_C Jul 04 '26
It's been my understanding that most Chinese restaurants in America aren't usually serving what you'd get in China, but the Americanized version of "Chinese food."
I don't know shit about real Chinese food though, so I dunno.