My friend Xue, who lives in Northern New Jersey, but originally comes from Beijing makes at least 4 outstanding vegetarian Chinese dishes (that I know of) — 1) Spicy, Cold Sesame noodles, which she serves with Bean Sprouts and Cucumber, 2) Vegetarian Fried Rice, 3) Fried Udon Noodles and Vegetables, 4) Garlic Chive Pot Stickers.
So when she called me up and offered to make me some noodles before I left town, I jumped at the chance. I highly recommend that every American befriend an excellent Chinese cook — if only to learn first-hand what an awful tired non-traditional horrible slop of food is served at so-called take-out “Chinese” restaurants in the US.
In fact, I’m convinced the most important thing we could do for Sino-American relations (and ultimately world peace) would be if we stopped exporting KFC, McDonalds and Pizza Hut to China, and they stopped exporting bad Chinese take-out places and bad Sammo Hung movies to the US.
March 25, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Hey, hey, hey! Some of us like “bad” Sammo Hung movies! “Martial Law” was an underrated masterpiece of television! How dare you, sir!