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The author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food served up her favorite Chinese food facts, myths and mysteries to AOL Food, and now she's ready for your red-hot questions. Submit them in the comments by 10 p.m. on Monday, March 31st, and Jennifer 8. Lee will answer them soon in a follow-up post.
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5-09-2008 @1:45PM Greg said... Gen. Tso's Chicken isn't from China? That explains why I've never seen a recipe in Chinese cookbooks....
Anyone have a good recipe for General Tso's?
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6-01-2008 @11:25AM doreen said... I'm looking for a dish/recipe for 'chicken long-rice', I ate it many years ago, several times @ my best friends house, her mom was the cook & she was Hawiian, it's not really a 'rice' like we think of now, it's more like a really really thin noodle w/o the pasta taste. I asked my friend since it was Her mother who made it...she didn't remember it, either it was nothing special to thier family or she burnt out a few brain cells in the 60s-70s0slost, I hope someone can help me w/this 'long rice', but not rice that I'm looking for..thanks
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11-04-2008 @11:04AM mary r gillard said... I would be willing to bet money that the beef in chinese take-out is not real beef. Does anyone know for sure? the taste and texture are just not like real beef. Anyone out there know for sure? sometimes the chicken also is not the right texture.
am really interested in getting the truth.
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1-27-2009 @3:23AM vrellum said... I think your explanation about chop suey is a bit off. "Chop suey" is basically Cantonese for "pig food" and the story that I've heard is it originated with a man in California who cooked left-overs behind a restaraunt. Given the meaning of the name, I doubt it had anything to do with a visiting diplomat
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1-31-2009 @12:59PM Carmine Pollastretti said... I always thought Chop Suey was invented by Chinese cooks in the California gold fields. The story I heard was that the cooks, having very little to prepare meals, stirred up whatever they had in a wok. the miners evidently loved it and later Chop Suey shops were set up in the new Chinatowns of San Francisco.
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2-01-2009 @6:59AM Carmine Pollastretti said... Does anyone know where I can go in Boston to get authentic Chinese food then?
And what should I order if I want something authentic but I'm not overly adventurous?
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