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Author: randomsurfer

Jul 17th 2011 at 5:51:29 PM

TheOtherWiki's article on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Chinese_cuisine American Chinese cuisine]] may be helpful.  They might have an equivalent page on "British Indian cuisine" or similar but I haven't found it.

I'm reminded of [[http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/ancient-chinese-secrets/Content?oid=895985 this]] article/essay:
-->New Yorker Jim Lee, author of the 1968 ''Jim Lee's Chinese Cookbook'', illustrated the situation with an anecdote. When some frustrated non-Chinese friends of his found they could not on their own order the same lobster Cantonese at the restaurant he had taken them to, he went back and listened to what the waiters hollered to the kitchen. Eventually he deciphered three phrases. Plain "lobster Cantonese" produced a bland concoction topped by a lot of pasty sauce; for those who asked for "real" Chinese food, "lobster Cantonese, Chinese style" had a little more garlic and less sauce. And "lobster Cantonese, Chinese style, eaten by Chinese" was the real [=McCoy=], boldly seasoned and served with the natural juices from the stir-fry.