Comments on: Sesame Prawn Toast and Other Gastronomic Oddities from London’s Chinatown http://www.chinatownstories.com/sesame-prawn-toast-and-other-gastronomic-odditie-from-london%e2%80%99s-chinatown/ Blogging as I trek to Chinese communities on six continents Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:48:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: betty ming liu http://www.chinatownstories.com/sesame-prawn-toast-and-other-gastronomic-odditie-from-london%e2%80%99s-chinatown/#comment-3047 betty ming liu Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:25:46 +0000 http://www.chinatownstories.com/?p=1091#comment-3047 what fun! it's also a riot that a chinese medicine practitioner took you on this crazy tour. the stuff you ate is so unhealthy! thanks for the fun read. :) what fun! it’s also a riot that a chinese medicine practitioner took you on this crazy tour. the stuff you ate is so unhealthy! thanks for the fun read. :)

]]> By: Steve Wang http://www.chinatownstories.com/sesame-prawn-toast-and-other-gastronomic-odditie-from-london%e2%80%99s-chinatown/#comment-2966 Steve Wang Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:36:15 +0000 http://www.chinatownstories.com/?p=1091#comment-2966 The truth is, the last refuge of would be cooks is... deep frying. Deep frying anything (pickles, twinkies, etc.) can only make it taste better and more interesting... And deep fried foods are useful to attract customers, since deep frying is not practical to do at home. London has lots of good/great Chinese restaurants. After all, the best cooking in the world is Cantonese--especially Hong Kong--cooking (remember the saying?: you should be born in SooChou (beautiful people), eat in QuangChou, and die in FuJou (best pine caskets)), Because London has had a connection with Hong Kong for over 200 years, London has a great many really good Chinese restaurants, many staffed by great Hong Kong chefs. But in London, as in all places where Chinese go, invariably, there are Chinese restaurants--especially small takeaways--that are owned and staffed by Chinese who never pretend to be good cooks (because, what do the Old Foreigners know anyway, right?). These establishments just want to make a living selling cheap food that is a somewhat adventurous to the foreign palate and.tastes OK. In London, evidently, many of these places exist, and some of them sell the deep fried foods you depict. The foods you show definitely look Artery Clogging, but OK to eat once in a long while (with lots of white rice or noodles and lots of vegetables). Are they Chinese food? Of course, they are: Chinese people cooked the food with Chinese style techniques and sauces. The truth is, the last refuge of would be cooks is… deep frying. Deep frying anything (pickles, twinkies, etc.) can only make it taste better and more interesting… And deep fried foods are useful to attract customers, since deep frying is not practical to do at home.

London has lots of good/great Chinese restaurants. After all, the best cooking in the world is Cantonese–especially Hong Kong–cooking (remember the saying?: you should be born in SooChou (beautiful people), eat in QuangChou, and die in FuJou (best pine caskets)), Because London has had a connection with Hong Kong for over 200 years, London has a great many really good Chinese restaurants, many staffed by great Hong Kong chefs.

But in London, as in all places where Chinese go, invariably, there are Chinese restaurants–especially small takeaways–that are owned and staffed by Chinese who never pretend to be good cooks (because, what do the Old Foreigners know anyway, right?). These establishments just want to make a living selling cheap food that is a somewhat adventurous to the foreign palate and.tastes OK.

In London, evidently, many of these places exist, and some of them sell the deep fried foods you depict.

The foods you show definitely look Artery Clogging, but OK to eat once in a long while (with lots of white rice or noodles and lots of vegetables). Are they Chinese food? Of course, they are: Chinese people cooked the food with Chinese style techniques and sauces.

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