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Originally Posted by FishingRod
Chinese food in general, is good. Even grocery stores usually can do an ok job of it. Kind of Like Mexican food it is just not that hard. Except, for some strange reason, most can’t make a taco as good as I can at home. I think it is a shortage of meat and what meat they use is bland .
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It's already been going on in a lot of food progressive cities, but I predict a backlash against "Chinese" food similar to what has happened with Tex Mex where people start making distinctions between "real" Chinese food and americanized chinese food.
I guess my point being: the simple standard dishes we get on chinese buffets are no more representative of chinese cuisine than Taco Bell is representative of Mexican.
Of course, the really interesting thing is that Tex Mex has now come back into fashion where chef-based restaurants are actually embracing and elevating Tex Mex cuisine. We have a place called "The Heights Taco & Tamale Co." in Little Rock that's doing it, and it's freaking fantastic.
One of my foodie friends who is, ironically, living in Austin recently ate at a Tex Mex joint while on a business trip to NYC. My head spins with the culinary geography of that.