Take stock of foreign pseudo-Chinese food: Hunan people have never seen "Left Zongxuan Chicken"

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Take stock of foreign

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Zo Zongxuan chickenBritish media said that today, people's diet diversity far exceeds any period in history. Even in a humble town, you can find Indian restaurants, Japanese sushi restaurants or Chinese takeaway restaurants on both sides of the street. In the 1st city, special african bread, Korean stone pot mixed rice, Jordanian aubergine sauce, Sichuan mamma tofu, Mexican chili sauce, pasta, Vietnamese rice flour and other national flavors of the cuisine.
However, the foreign dishes in your mind are often newly invented not far from you, and often do not exist in the country of origin it claims to be, the BBC reported on February 17th.
reported that in the United States and many other countries, "Zuo Zong chicken" is one of the most popular Chinese dishes. From San Francisco to Omaha, nebraska to London, Chinese restaurants all over the country have this crispy fried chicken nugget made with sugary sauce, the so-called "traditional Chinese cuisine." But the British chef Fu Xia in this dish is known as the origin of Hunan, China, found that no one has ever heard of the "Left Zong chicken." In fact, I haven't heard of this dish anywhere in China, and its taste is no different from that of authentic Hunan cuisine.
, a Chinese general born in China's Hunan province, was involved in the suppression of the Taiping rebellion. But according to historical records, General Zuo Zongxuan did not have any special interest in fried chicken until his death. Fu Xia wrote that the inventor of this Chinese dish, Hunan chef Peng Changgui, was the one who tied General Zuo Zongxuan's name to fried chicken nuggets.
Peng Changgui, a famous chef, created the dish in Taiwan in 1949, but initially it tasted more sour than sweet, and the New York restauratecle brought it to the United States after tasting Peng Changgui's "Left Zongyu Chicken" in Taipei. Over time, the taste of the dish evolved, eventually creating a sweet, sticky taste that was quite different from the original one, catering to the appetites of American consumers who were sweeter and more sour than Hunanese. The 2014 documentary "Finding Zuo Zongxuan" explored the origins of the dish and showed photos of the current popular version of "Zuo Zongxuan Chicken" to Peng Changgui, who was 96 years old at the time. He looked at the picture and muttered, "It's nonsense." The
story of another variant of the delicious Chinese dish, the fried noodle sandwich. The dish is made from fried noodles with dark sauces sandwiched between two slices of bread, and since the mid-20th century, Chinese restaurants in Massachusetts, south of Boston, have been popular with cheap lunch dishes that provide enough calories.
is also popular in many parts of the United States - the dish is believed to have originated in western China, where large numbers of immigrants are exported to the United States. But like many other Popular Chinese dishes in the West, there is no trace of it in the so-called home country of "Left Zong chicken".
In other parts of the world, stir-fry is made from bean sprouts, meat silk and an endless variety of vegetables, and then made with a thick juicy juice, which has even become synth for the cooking method. American stir-fry is made from pasta, beef mince and a variety of vegetables, and many churches in New England make it dinner.
report that hungry people's ideas are not limited to Chinese food. It is widely thought that chicken nuggets cooked with golden curry juice and chicken nuggets are an Indian dish, but in fact they are British dishes invented to the taste of the British, and even delicious pizzas are completely different from those used in the 19th century when Italians first immigrated to the United States, when pizza was used only for hungry bread. In the years that followed, it evolved into a pasta crispy, covered with a variety of fruit and vegetable meats, then sprinkled with easily melted cheese-baked food, and became a symbol of Italian cuisine. But the pizza is very different from Italy's own. Academics even use the term "pizza effect" to describe this phenomenon: when something leaves its place of origin, it changes downright and becomes an important part of the culture there, leaving the locals confused when they return to their place of origin.
no losers in the food competition. One dish will be transformed into a very different new dish according to the tastes of the locals, and may even become a classic. If you go to China, you may want to go to a foreign restaurant to see what the "Western version" of "fried mess" looks like?