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- CALLES
i love chinese food and i am a self diagnosed cheese-oholic... why why is it that there is not cheese in chinise food... any ideas?
- Juan_Dumplo0
fail
- Antonelli0
i'm the same, but that sounds really nasty.
- mikotondria30
Because cheese is food of the gods, whereas chinese food is just
slices of chewy and crunchy stuff in a sweet, salty brown sauce.
With rice.
- lukusW0
because a large percentage of chinese people have a gene which makes their fingers swell if they consume whey.
- harlequino0
As I understand, it's because cow domestication is a fairly recent thing there compared to the rest of the world. Same in Japan. You don't really see dairy at all.
- CALLES0
so has anybody attempted this?
- Jnr_Madison0
You're cheesy enough!
- harlequino0
There are some spins on Chinese cuisine involving dairy and cheeses, but they are all American in origin I think. Like crab rangoon for example. Probably experimental or haute cusine does some of this as well in different places.
The big Chinese population in Cuba probably brings back some interesting fusion too.
- CALLES0
but how would i do this... put what cheese on what dish!?!??!
- tparsons0
Cheese will ruin all Asian Cuisine... I also hate it when people make sushi to satisfy the Caucasian flavor palette and put cheese in it. Also Americanized Chinese food is not so good, cheese in it will make it even worse.
- harlequino0
Just get your General Tso's Chicken and walk over to the 7-11. Slop some of the neon orange nacho sauce on there, and boom!
But call the paramedics first before you nosh.
- Jnr_Madison0
You could have a cheese fondue and use some Chinese food to dip in it.
- harlequino0
Been snooping around cuz anything food related interests me. There is some experimentation with more dairy in some regions, but you still don't see cheese as we know it, at least not in mainstream. There is ice cream, and there is a Cantonese thing called "fried milk" which is like a desert I guess. I sort of has the consistency of a cheese.
- OSFA0
- designbot0
That is actually a really good question.....never thought about it.
Yeah, like others said, Chinese people do not eat much dairy. I think they are far ahead of american's as far as diet is concerned. I have started getting into eating some authentic chinese, korean, and other asian foods....good stuff. Cheese is good, but milk is disgusting and should be banished from the American diet.
- Tell that to people in India.harlequino
- had to look this up....India #1 Milk producer, never would have thought! pretty crazy.designbot
- Only knew that recently myself.harlequino
- GeorgesII0
why do people have to put cheeze everywhere,
can't you live without it?
- Jnr_Madison0
Having just read some Yahoo answers on this topic, I get the feeling some in this thread have just copied and pasted...LOL
- really? havent look fior it... link?CALLES
- http://answers.yahoo…Jnr_Madison
- I think it was a drunken topic of discussion with some restaurant industry friends a while back. :)harlequino
- http://answers.yahoo…Jnr_Madison
- http://au.answers.ya…Jnr_Madison
- Orbit0
There is no dairy content to chinese food. None at all. There are fundamental cultural reasons for this. Its actually at the heart of why China and the rest of the world will never become fully integrated, and why there is more chance of America going to war with China than with any other nation.
- I say this as a chinese man myself.Orbit
- woahCALLES
- Cool! "The Cheese Wars"harlequino
- lol at harlequinoCALLES
- moth0
I like food. I like food a lot. But Chinese food generally doesn't taste much better than a bowl of snot.
Countless are the times I've been dragged, kicking and screaming, to the "best" chinese place in soho, noho, wherever... always mediocre at best.
- harlequino0
per Jnr's link
"In many parts of the world, such as ancient China, Southeast Asia and Africa, temperatures were too extreme for cattle herding: too hot, too humid. They didn't depend on cattle as much as they depended on fishing and farming tropical plants. In Europe and northern Asia, the climate was ideal for cattle herding, so they consumed much more dairy, including cheese.Because the Chinese people lived for so long without consuming dairy, they developed lactose intolerance. Today, many Asians exhibit these ancestral side effects of lack of dairy in diet. And this is reflected in their culture: because they don't eat cheese, and can't digest it, they don't use it in their cooking.
See in India, because they have such a close religious association with cattle, they use butter and cream in the cooking, despite the hot climate. And in Tibet, which is culturally close to China, it is colder, and they have more yak. There, a lot of their diet depends on the yak, including its milk. They make tea and cheese with the milk.
And of course cheese spread to the Americas with...well, the Europeans colonizing the country. So it seems like most of the world likes cheese, but it's really easy to see why large groups of people never developed a taste for it."