When East Meet West
Okay, let's get something straight here:
1. The kind of Chinese food that you see in grocery store aka Panda Inn style -- fried rice or steam rice or chow mien with two side dish combo including but not limited to broccoli beef, chicken in red or yellow sauce, and sweet and sour pork is NOT real Chinese food.
For the record, we have Hong Kong or Taiwan style "western food" too. And if you ever seen what's served, you'd probably go, "Huh?"
2. There is no such thing as "fortune cookie." It exists only in US. I recalled watching "Rebel Billionaire" and they went to Hong Kong and the guys started looking for fortune cookie. Including the founder/owner of LoveSac, who had spent three years in China, they were all very surprised that they couldn't find fortune cookies in Hong Kong. In retrospect, I suppose there really isn't any ways they'd know that fortune cookies are an American thing. (They finally found them. Although it's not culturally Chinese, fortune cookies are probably still "made in China.")
3. To-go boxes are also an American adaption. Taking your leftovers to go is frowned upon, at least in Hong Kong. Besides, the portion of meals in Hong Kong were actually made for human consumption. There shouldn't be need for those white box, which in recent design has lost their handy little metal handle for more convenient microwave reheating purposes.
4. Don't even get me started on chopstick fonts. There isn't even any alphabets in Chinese. We have characters, not alphabets.
5. Hero, House of the Flying Daggers, Disney's Mulan are movies made for American audiences, they do NOT, I repeat, NOT, represent mainstream Chinese movies. (And for the love of God, Disney did not create Mulan. I mean they made it into a movie, and conveniently mangled up the ending. It was written by a dude name Hans Christian Anderson in the year 1837, but that belongs in a different entry.)
6. People in China no longer dress like they do in those movies. Nor do they in Hong Kong or Taiwan or Singapore, or other places with Chinese.
7. Not all Chinese knows Kung Fu. And we can't defy physics and fly in air.
8. If you like martial art movies other than Hero, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and House of the Flying Daggers. More power to you. But that's only one genre of Chinese movies. For one thing, we also have modern movies. You know, those with cars and elevators and skyscrapers and people dressing in jeans or suits or sweats.
1. The kind of Chinese food that you see in grocery store aka Panda Inn style -- fried rice or steam rice or chow mien with two side dish combo including but not limited to broccoli beef, chicken in red or yellow sauce, and sweet and sour pork is NOT real Chinese food.
For the record, we have Hong Kong or Taiwan style "western food" too. And if you ever seen what's served, you'd probably go, "Huh?"
2. There is no such thing as "fortune cookie." It exists only in US. I recalled watching "Rebel Billionaire" and they went to Hong Kong and the guys started looking for fortune cookie. Including the founder/owner of LoveSac, who had spent three years in China, they were all very surprised that they couldn't find fortune cookies in Hong Kong. In retrospect, I suppose there really isn't any ways they'd know that fortune cookies are an American thing. (They finally found them. Although it's not culturally Chinese, fortune cookies are probably still "made in China.")
3. To-go boxes are also an American adaption. Taking your leftovers to go is frowned upon, at least in Hong Kong. Besides, the portion of meals in Hong Kong were actually made for human consumption. There shouldn't be need for those white box, which in recent design has lost their handy little metal handle for more convenient microwave reheating purposes.
4. Don't even get me started on chopstick fonts. There isn't even any alphabets in Chinese. We have characters, not alphabets.
5. Hero, House of the Flying Daggers, Disney's Mulan are movies made for American audiences, they do NOT, I repeat, NOT, represent mainstream Chinese movies. (And for the love of God, Disney did not create Mulan. I mean they made it into a movie, and conveniently mangled up the ending. It was written by a dude name Hans Christian Anderson in the year 1837, but that belongs in a different entry.)
6. People in China no longer dress like they do in those movies. Nor do they in Hong Kong or Taiwan or Singapore, or other places with Chinese.
7. Not all Chinese knows Kung Fu. And we can't defy physics and fly in air.
8. If you like martial art movies other than Hero, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and House of the Flying Daggers. More power to you. But that's only one genre of Chinese movies. For one thing, we also have modern movies. You know, those with cars and elevators and skyscrapers and people dressing in jeans or suits or sweats.
posted by cahalan @ 01:01
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