On Jan 7, 6:07*am, "ViLco" > wrote:
> What are the most common fake chinese dishes served in chinese joints and
> restaurants in your area? Here in northern Italy the most widespread fake is
> "riso alla cantonese" (tr. "cantonese rice"), which does not exist nor in
> Canton nor in all of China, or so a chinese friend told me: basically it's a
> dish of rice with no sauces but just a lot of peas and bits of scrambled
> eggs, along with diced prosciutto cotto (!!!). Every chinese restaurant or
> take-away has them on the menu, every single one.
> Here a shot of the infamous cantonese rice:http://www.giallozafferano.it/images.../slide-450.jpg
> And in your area?

When I was a kid in the midwest, Chinese restaurants uniformly served
chop suey (stir fried beef, celery, and mung bean sprouts among other
things). San Francisco restaurants came up with Chinese chicken salad
-- a pretty tasty luncheon dish, and lemon chicken (battered chunks of
chicken, deep fried, and drenched in a heavy lemon syrup).