On Tuesday, August 23, 2016 at 1:39:30 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 23, 2016 at 6:37:55 AM UTC-10, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> > dsi1 <dsi1yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >I made Hawaiian beef tomato tonight. It's the Hawaiian version of the Chinese dish. It was tasty.
> > >
> > >https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/sh...hare_link_copy
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> >
> > How do raw tomato wedges make a Chinese beef dish Hawaiian... and how
> > does the addition of tomato make any dish Hawaiian?
> > Actually raw tomato wedges on a hot beef dish doesn't look at all
> > appetizing. In fact without the tomatoes that's not a Chinese dish...
> > pepper steak per se is not Chinese, pepper steak can be of any
> > ethnicity.... just because pepper steak is served over a bed of white
> > rice that doesn't make it Chinese, most of the planet's people eat
> > rice every day. A Chinese restaurant would serve Hot & Sour Beef..
> > very different from your dish and would be more Hawaiian as it would
> > contain pineapple, not that there's anything Hawaiian about pineapple
> > either... Pineapple is Central Amercan. You used a flavorless
> > cardboard stupidmarket tomato.
>
> Beef tomato is a Cantonese dish. Hawaiian beef tomato is Chinese beef tomato transformed. It's a hybrid dish. In fact, I can make it more or less Chinese by adjusting the recipe - I have the freedom and ability to do this. The flavor profile I choose is fresh tomato/onion/veggie and doesn't use anything associated with Chinese. This is purely intentional.
>
> The Hawaiians were always transforming dishes from Asia into something different. Rest assured that the cooks here know what is Chinese style and what is Hawaiian style and what is American style. We ain't dumb and the practice of tossing some pineapple in a dish and calling it Hawaiian is purely a Haole one.

Sheldon doesn't acknowledge any Chinese food that wasn't served in
Chinese restaurants 50 years ago.

Cindy Hamilton