Japanese food v. Chinese food

[ChinoCoug]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

Pasta. There was no pasta in Europe until Europeans interacted with the Chinese. Legend has it Marco Polo brought it back with him. Also, most of what you love about Japanese food is similarly derivative of Chinese. Like I said, Chinese is the French food of Asia, except that to Asia China is like a conflation of Greece, Rome, and France to Europe/USA.

That legend is bogus.

Chinese-->Turks-->Italians

[ChinoCoug]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

I'm not eating Chinese food until I have some confidence that every single product isn't adulteratued with industrial chemicals.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...062701472.html

you missed that Simpson's episode when Homer got poison @ a Japanese restauarant and was scheduled to die.

[SeattleUte]

I guess the anti-China hostility of this thread confirms China is America's new great industrial even perhaps military rival.

[BarbaraGordon]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

I guess the anti-China hostility of this thread confirms China is America's new great industrial even perhaps military rival.

It's because they're taking all our oil. Jacks up the price of gasoline.

grrr. I'll show them!

No more chicken lo mein for me. Nosirree.

[Lost Student]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

I guess the anti-China hostility of this thread confirms China is America's new great industrial even perhaps military rival.

Or at least that China is Cougarguard's military rival.

My favorite restaurant is PF Chang's. I am curious--how do the resident food experts rate this place?

My limited Japanese food experience comes from my family's Japanese exchange student about 12 years ago. She made some seaweed soup (I think that's what she called it...) that tasted decent but the leaves were slimey. She also made rice balls that I actually liked a lot once I got over the strange appearance and texture.

So, for me:
Chinese food =good
Japanese food=decent but strange.

[ute4ever]

Originally Posted by BlueK

Neither can hold a candle to Indonesian.

Agreed. And I also place Indian & Thai above Japanese and Chinese.