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   pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 19:32:10 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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   @chillanarchist01 @ins0mniak
   
   > I don't buy that. That might have been the case in the past, but modern Chinese restaurants are owned/staffed by modern Chinese immigrants.
   
   Once the divergence happens, it reinforces itself. In this case, most "Chinese" food is SF-style Cantonese food.
   
   Sometimes they are owned or staffed by first-generation immigrants, but in either case, because one type predominates, they go to the market and they can buy things for that, they can order from the local restaurant suppliers, etc. Here there are a lot of Chinese markets, so people running restaurants can go in and the butcher cuts the pig up the way you expect in a Chinese kitchen, they've got ducks and whatnot, the dry goods section of the market has all the Sichuan and Hunan peppers that you can't get in most of the country, but the east coast, you can't buy that stuff quite as readily.
   
   But "authentic Chinese food" is also somewhat nebulous, it's like an authentic hotdog. I don't really like Cantonese food as much, even the real stuff, but real Sichuan, real Hunan, real Beijing stuff is great. Two of my favorite places closed down, unfortunately, due to the 'Rona lockdowns. One was a place called "Beijing Pie House", they had Beijing-style dumplings and meat pies, it was incredible.
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