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?
>
Your dish looks like a *******ized version of Huo Tui Fan Qie Chao Fan
(fried rice with tomato, cucumber and - indeed - cooked ham).

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner

On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 20:11:13 +0100, Michael Kuettner
> wrote:

>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?
>>
>Your dish looks like a *******ized version of Huo Tui Fan Qie Chao Fan
>(fried rice with tomato, cucumber and - indeed - cooked ham).

Add pigeon peas (gandules) and it's Puerto Rican rice.
http://www.goya.com/english/recipes/...ce&whichpage=1