"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:24:52 -0800 (PST), Helpful person wrote:
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>> Very poor article. The author should at least have researched the
>> origin of the dishes instead of making stupid irrelevant quips.
>
> It's even worse than I thought. In the original article:
>
> <http://dc.eater.com/archives/2011/10/31/10-chinese-dishes-that-real-chinese-people-dont-eat.php>
>
> Look what they pictured for "Chop Suey": Macaroni and beef with a
> side salad.
>
> And for "salad", WTF ever saw a plain tossed salad on an
> American-Chinese menu? Maybe in Iowa they it, but not anywhere I've
> been. And contrary to the article, Chinese eat plenty of raw
> vegetables.
>
> That's some quality reporting they have there. Turns out Mary Kong's
> "real" job is a "spa therapist".

The various Teriyaki takeout places that are almost as common as drive
through coffee huts here do a salad. Yeah, I know that Teriyaki isn't
Chinese but a lot of people don't seem to know that. Including some of the
"Chinese" restaurants here. The salad is no more than a hunk of iceberg
lettuce. I have no clue why they do that. Perhaps they think it helps to
lessen the effect of all the grease they put in their food.