brownfemipower: restruct: zuky: Chinese food authentic enough to make my grandmother smile, plated a
brownfemipower:restruct:zuky:Chinese food authentic enough to make my grandmother smile, plated and served Western-style for pure indulgent humorous kicks. After this pic was taken, that thickened glaze on the side was promptly poured all over the meat and rice, and you know what happened next.You might ask, how can it be authentic when the glaze includes molasses and ancho? Simple answer: my grandmother and my mother showed me that you can replace ingredients, seasonings, and aromatics, as long as the traditional balance and shape of the six fundamental flavors is maintained. My grandmother did this herself on many occasions and I always found the result fresh and exciting. That’s how you can do “fusion” without doing violence to culinary traditions.I do find this photo humourous and ironic, yet aesthetically pleasing. The additional irony is that this Chinese-food-on-a-plate dish is “authentic”. Yet dynamic and not frozen in time.the question i’ve always had (and this is for ALL people still eating some semblance of ‘authentic’ to their ethnicity/race cuisine)—is white rice authentic? I am totally not asking in a sarcastic or nasty way—just—so much of our food—beans and rice, for example, tastes *perfect* with white rice—I can’t imagine it with brown or wild rice—and yet logic says that for thousands of years, people had to have been eating brown/wild rice? ANd maybe brown rice isn’t all that “original” either? maybe its just as processed as white rice? And maybe white rice isn’t processed like I think it is, maybe there’s a real grain of white rice? I don’t know. I guess what Im saying is I’d like to know the history of rice in general.People in China do not eat brown rice! For thousands of years, rice has been harvested and husked by hand, and steamed to create rice that looks exactly like the rice in this pic. I don’t know where the rumor came from that white rice is the result of some newfangled processing.restruct, I’m glad you get the humor. :) -- source link