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A starving man may drool over a fly-covered road-kill.
But it's good that you enjoyed your meal . . . bon appetit.
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Generally food is pretty simple here though, fish pie, fish and chips, steak and chips is what you get in most pubs
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These are recipes off the net! 
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Well, there's your problem! 
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So first it was the restaurants that were wrong, now its the chefs and their recipes off the net that are wrong, what next, want me to go get a Ken Hom recipe book and see if they are the same? 
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Well ... I've still go one of his woks ...
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The guy did well out of 6 ingredients didnt he.
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At random:
Ken Homs 5 spice pidgeons
Soy sauce
vinegar
sugar
onions
ginger
5 spice
SO basically, that is the same recipe for pork ribs 
modified 26-Feb-19 5:12am.
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Not even close! Pork does not come from Pigeon. 
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It is odd though, they dont use herbs.
Imagine it, no thyme and rosmary. No coriander or parsley. Taragon and dill. And Mint?
The incredible variety of flavour, and not used.
Butter and cream? Nope.
And everything is stir fried, no stews, nothing baked, it really is an incredibly bland cuisine.
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Eh? They bake fish, they boil, they steam a sh*t-load! Go and find authentic Dim Sum some day, and there is nothing fried in the building!
You have to remember that China is a HUGE country, with a massive range of local cuisines. (To get an idea of the size, we hear about the American Civil War, which killed 600,000 people. But at the same time in China they had a civil war too - the Taiping Revolution - which killed not less than 20,000,000 and not more than 100,000,000; most likely around 70,000,000 and we don't hear about that at all! Remember that WWI "only" killed 40,000,000 and they have tanks and mustard gas ... and it kind of puts the place into proportion.)
What we get are the "export" recipes, not the "local" ones - any more than an "Indian" takeaway is in any way representative of food across the subcontinent.
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Yeah, they do steam some stuff. That is true.
What we get mostly is Cantonese of course, for restaurants, as for what is online, the recipes I find look to be the same kind of thing.
But even so Canton is a big area. If you want to talk about Europe being as big as China, then include all European food. Now look at the immense variety you have. From Pizza, to Paella, Pheasant in Chocolate sauce, Steak with Rochefort sauce, roast duck with red cabbage, fish and chips, Haggis, fermented shark, mousaka, kebabs, cheese fondue, beef wellington. The variety is so big and so profound it is hard to even think of it all at the same time.
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Maybe we just had more "rich people" who could afford better food? Remember that stir fry didn't even become popular in China until the 20th century because most people couldn't afford the oil.
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What did they eat then, raw food?
Pizza, cheese, rice, these are poor mans food. We do a lot with it though!
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Boiled and steamed, mostly. No dairy because cows / sheep / goats were too expensive to run: rice was staple because they could grow it, while a cow needs a huge amount of grassy real estate (and would eat the rice)
They had water buffalo, but they produce less milk than cows (about one third) so there wasn't a lot the poor could do with them either.
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OK, I suppose a little like us, a few centuries back, except we had a lot of dairy. Every one ate cheese. I guess we had the land for it in northern europe.
It seems that those recipes are mostly Sichuan style, lots of garlic and chilli. Just reading up about it all now, alot of the dishes sound pretty unpleasant. Perhaps we are better off sticking to just the ingredients I listed!
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AKA stir-fried random
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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this is meta cooking right here!
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Generals beat colonels every time.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Not much of an algorithm if you ask me.
No conditional logic. no looping. Just a series of items in a list, really.
Correction: you have an implied loop here.
Munchies_Matt wrote: Deep fry it til it is crispy.
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Slacker007 wrote: No conditional logic. no looping. Just a series of items in a list, really.
But at least it's recursive.
Or, anyways, it keeps repeating.
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Yeah, you are right, it isnt much. And neither is the food!
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You seem to frequent a too many cheap restaurants.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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These are all recipes off youtube actually. I was browsing for something to cook and was staggered at the almost identical nature of these recipes, and the list goes on, I found another last night. Chilli garlic chicken, exactly the same as the rest.
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