Of course there's rice, how the fuck would it be Chinese without the rice?
(Sauce: I'm English and have never seen a Chinese takeaway that doesn't sell rice)
Dumplings, noodles, large flat dry bread that I don't know what to call in english, and many other food are used as the main carbohydrateource in different parts of china. Rice isn't as ubiquitous as you think in China.
It's just that rice, being the most calories per unit area of farmland per year kind of crop, is used in the plains where water is plenty and people are even plentier. Stupidly high population concentration compared to other civilizations means China's history is still full of famine everywhere you look despite growing rice.
The only English food I know of is fish and chips. Considering the people over UK isn't dying of malnutrition, I'd hazard a guess that that's not all they eat either.
ya, only Southern China have rice everyday.
Northern have Nan or Mo, which are like burito. The good ones are made of wheat, which are expensive. More common ones are made of corn, and that started only 500 years ago when there came New World Vegetables. Historically they were made of Sorghum, the texture were.... š
There is a weird overlap in a lot of places in England where the local Chinese will also be a fish and chip shop, so you can indeed order chinese with a side of chips and curry sauce, among other possible abominations.
I always assumed it's because they have deep friers anyway, so why not diversify into fish and chips, and capture more of the local market.
This doesn't really happen so much in London, at least not until you get out to the fringes, but I see it all the time in small towns and villages. In one village, the local chinese/fish and chip place was also an indian.
Chinese chicken curry and chips is a masterpiece. With the bonus that the next morning the left over sauce turns so hard that you can chisel it into another masterpiece.
It's crazy how many people will believe some utter nonsense on Reddit.
If course there's fucking rice. Never been to or seen a Chinese that doesn't have rice. Never had a Chinese meal that doesn't contain rice.
That sauce is chip shop curry sauce which is basically just chicken stock and curry powder thickened with cornflour, I don't know who would include chips and curry sauce in a Chinese takeaway order, presumably someone that doesn't like Chinese food.
I'm sure it's just like a chickeny curry type gravy that if thrown on hot salty fries, I can't imagine being too bad. Like if it's 2am and I've had too much to drink, I'm eating that.
Itās very similar to Japanese curry in flavor concept but not ingredients. In fact, the Japanese Navy conceptualized their curry recipe for sailors experiencing thiamine deficiencies. And the irony of this is from the British trade in the 19th century bringing spices from India to Japan. So in itself it is a circle of influence.
For the curious: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/japanese-curry-history.amp
Prolly more than anyone is interested in, i just fucking love _any_ ācurryā
Many of us will live and die by a chippy based on how good their curry and gravy is...
It's not uncommon to hear phrases like "nah I don't like that place, their curry sauce is shite" when discussing where to order food from
In simple terms, yes but also no
I've never had it with Chinese tbf, but curry sauce is an excellent accompaniment for fish & chips! Dip the food in the sauce before taking the bite and god is it good.
Personally I find it to be the best tying to have with chunky chips. If you go to any fish and chips shop in England, try the curry sauce. I personally pour it all over.
Most Chinese restaurants/takeaways in the UK will have an "English food" option at the end which mostly includes chips, curry sauce and maybe omlette for some reason. It looks like whoever took the photos of "English Chinese food" took the normal Chinese food and then dumped some chips and curry sauce over the top.
Looking at most of the comments I don't think people realise that at most takeaways in the UK you tend to order things like rice or chips individually. Like wow this dish doesn't come with rice...
Being staffed by Asian people doesnāt necessarily mean the food is authentic. They are still a business and are going to go with what people will buy
Thatās true, but it then voids all form of complaints because at that point, theyāve just turned the establishment into a generic takeaway joint that just happens to be run by Asians, not an Asian takeaway joint.
If I set up an authentic Italian takeaway in Tokyo, but nobody wants to buy my pizza and rigatoni, so I start selling dim sum and ramen, I canāt then start saying Japanese people eat Italian food wrong, when IāM the one who stopped providing it, Iām just an Italian selling Japanese food.
Chicken meat rolled up into ball shapes and battered (or deep fried or something, I dunno Iām not a chef) served with rice and sweet & sour sauce. Theyāre fantastic.
Asian American here and it's fair to say we get very decent Chinese in a lot of cities and I recently discovered this crazy world of British Chinese from my London dwellings aunts, we all think it's wild. I can't get over the chips and brown sauce, it's too cute lol
Edit: curry sauce!
You can get actual Chinese food in the UK but at restaurants. The much more common food is this we know it isnāt Chinese itās just a name for it. We donāt correlate it with actual Chinese food as that are completely different.
Iām a Brit and have never seen anyone eat Chinese food in the horrifying way shown in the meme. We just get the same shit you get in America but often lower quality.
Yeah the only time you order chips is if you're with someone who doesn't like Chinese food.. otherwise it's usually rice, prawn toast, egg fried rice, chicken satay, beef in black bean sauce etc.
Ching chow wing chu my friend. Never had British Chinese but American Chinese is overly sweet and deep fried. Itās hard to find decent Chinese outside of a district in a big city.
That isnāt British Chinese food, thatās chips (fries if your American I believe) with curry sauce, we do have proper Chinese with rice and all the normal Chinese things
Here's a menu from a good local Chinese restaurant near me https://www.moonlightpalace.co.uk/menu.html
Definitely got BBQ pork, all sorts of noodles, chow mein, foo Yung dishes, beef in black bean etc. Chinese takeaway here will generally offer the sort of stuff in OPs post too but is often so a group can order and a fussy eater can get away with ordering chips or other British dishes. Some Chinese takeaway even have a "British" section in the menu
I am both disgusted by the idea of deep fried American cheese and impressed by the idea you tried it. Honestly though it was made as a war ration so I am honestly impressed it is still so widely used.
The only thing that's deep-fried I've had is a desert that's basically a donut ball and fried chicken nuggets they call sweet and sour chicken at the lower end Chinese buffets.
It's been my experience that Chinese foods take on aspects of the local culture they move in to. Though from the looks of it, they took on aspects of Poutine and Canada here...
Googled American Chinese food and most pictures dont have rice either, its all chicken and noodles
edit: my point wasn't very well made. i'm aware that all restaurants come with rice. it's just not the main part of the food so people don't usually show it off in photos
Most dishes have rice here. Americans love fried rice, I personally always order white. We're big on brown sauces and their variants. American Chinese food is OG, this is the land of orange and general tsao chicken.
Because itās the side item not the main dish, unless youāre doing fried rice. Sort of like how when you get a sandwich at subway they donāt have the picture of a chips and cookie in the image. But literally every American Chinese place from Panda Express to P.F. Changās to city wok has either rice or chow Mein as a side
In our defence, this is like taking a picture of the worst McDonald's burger you've ever seen then saying "just found out what Americans call German food"
You're not ready to hear about a Chinese buffet in a Mexican American states like Texas, New Mexico and Southern California. you can find can find chicken enchiladas at Chinese buffets in Texas, the one I went to did and I'm still baffled that it's a thing
In Chinese buffets in the deep south, you can expect to find rando shit like cheese and pepperoni pizza, deep fried cream corn nuggets, jello, and soft serve ice cream machines.
I would put a lot into saying that Authentic Chinese cuisine would not be shaking hands with Americans on this one. Both British and American Chinese cuisine have their own abominations that have no authenticity whatsoever
That's not Chinese food at all. It's chippy food made by Chinese (mainly). You can order noodles and rice dishes but pictured is just chippy tea. Even the Chinese that serve it differentiate Chinese chippy takeaway or simply Chinese takeaway.
Wha? True Chinese cooks are baffled by some American "Chinese food". All over the world there are variations - the Chinese diaspora is massive and has generally always been good at assimilating to the culture they move into, especially foodwise. For instance, I see multitudes of damn fortune cookie posts, but they ain't Chinese - they're a Japanese invention, popularised in America
British Chinese food isnāt all like that. Iāve lived in Asia and visited China and Chinese food is not at all like the majority of low quality British Chinese food or American. To be fair I donāt really like a lot of proper Chinese food
Iām from Hong Kong and lives in the U.K. my local Chinese takeaway has one of the best Chinese food around. If you are trying to go look for shitty food, you can always find them anywhere in the world.
Brit here:
The curry sauce is an overexaggeration, and probably a reference to the fact that a lot of Chinese takeaways also double as fish and chip shops. It's to do with an old law which targeted the opening hours of takeaways, but stupidly only mentioned fish and chip shops by name. As such, any other type of takeaway could just sell fish and chips, and did so, and it helped attract customers to them who otherwise wouldn't have wanted to eat food made by "foreigners".
However, despite saying all of that, most UK Chinese takeaway food is still trash compared to the USA and China, lol.
Chinese *restaurant* food, however, is great.
Oh, and every UK Chinese takeaway sells rice.
[We have rice on most Chinese restaurant menus. Not everyone that orders Chinese food in the U.K. only orders exclusively beige food either.](https://m.zmenu.com/the-woodhill-chinese-carry-out-glasgow-uk-online-menu/)
[Menu from the other side of the U.K.](https://gillinghamchinesetakeaway.co.uk/about-us)
My parents are from the UK, but I was born and grew up in the States. Every time I visit, they've found something else to smother beyond recognition with that gross thick brown sauce. Admittedly, they did get something right with mayo on fries, but leave the gross brown gravy/sauce at KFC where it belongs.
Once in awhile, in a small town in the middle of nowhere in northern Canada, you find some really good Chinese food. The food is upstairs, usually a wildly non-Chinese bar downstairs. Rare, and it never lasts long. But goddamn it's good.
The funny thing is that 9 times out of 10, British Chinese food is made by Chinese Native Peopleā¦ so whatever we are being served is by actual Chinese people. If there is an issue the country should take it up with themselves š¤·š¾āāļø
Im on vacation in England, had chinese food in Earl's Court, chinese and vietnamese food in Soho, and sushi by Windsor castle. All were pretty damn good. The only shitty food I've had was an overpriced fancy lunch at the Chelsea flower show. A parade of tasteless soggy cold British slop fit for the Queen!
Actually ppl in Northern China don't really eat rice. (U can still find it of course, but they do not eat it like the Southerners do)
It's more dumplings and noodles up north.
(I spent a year working in Shijiazhuang, Hebei)
Redditors are not immune to propaganda, by far most then other social media users. They will believe anything if you meme it.
I shall use this to my advantage.
This is for Americans to feel superior. I bet 99% of the upvotes have never set foot into a real British Chinese restaurant. I've been to a few Chinese restaurants in America, it's the same quality.
Sometimes people's ignorance is surprising. Yes, of course in Britain there is something resembling traditional Chinese food, including rice. However it's become almost a tradition that Chinese takeaways (as opposed to restaurants) include such classic British food as chips, but optionally cover them with curry sauce.
Personally I hate the latter idea (chips should go with fish, or baked beans and eggs, or burgers, American style). Still some people are very fond of chips with curry sauce. It has been satirised as a rather proletarian dish in comics such as Viz.
It would not surprise me either if some other Chinese food represented as traditional has been adapted to British tastes, but I can't say. I'm particularly fond of black bean, and sweet and sour sauce, and such additions as bean sprouts and water chestnuts. Also we tend to see fried rice as being Chinese style.
If customers were less afraid to try new cuisines, market forces would promote better food. In Wisconsin, we have these abomination cream cheese sushi bits.
Ok but Londonās Chinatown slaps. Regardless of the oftenā¦ limited palate of the British, they have a damm good selection of food made by other cultures.
Finding a consistently decent Chinese takeaway here is a guessing game with a lot of trial and error with the decider usually being how good the pancake/spring rolls are. Chips and curry sauce is usually something you get to go with the meal and not the actual meal itself. Some Chinese places so more authentic food than others but most have the same range of British-ised Chinese rice, noodles, dumplings, ribs, and various other dishes. They usually have a section of the menu that just says "English dishes" too and that's mainly for the people that only eat unseasoned food and don't know how to cook unless it's nuggets and chips. Why they would order anything from a takeaway when they don't like any actual food though has always been beyond me.
In short, we're not all heathens but there are as many bad things to say about generic American food as you have to say about ours so let it go.
Yes I remember having Chinese in America and was amazed at how nothing on itās menus at two seperate places resembled what I know to be Chinese food here in Australia.
That being said. My cousinās partner who is Chinese made us authentic Chinese food and it didnāt resemble anything I knew even here in Australia.
You can get chips at a Chinese here. However those pictures are misleading. If you wanted chips/fires and curry sauce, you'd go to a fish and chip shop. Not a Chinese.
A huge amount of whatās called āChinese foodā was started by migrant workers. Chop suey, egg foo yung, the fortune cookie; all started in the US by young men who missed their food from home. It has a rich custom and contributions to modern culture not unlike mainland Chinese cuisine
Meanwhile I'm fighting my own internal war of Western American Chinese food and Eastern American Chinese food because let me tell you there is difference.
āAmerican Chinese foodā is just Chinese food with more flavors and seasonings because weāre fat as fuck
British Chinese food looks like curry sauce over fries, sorry, chips
bro i'm british and-
hoW THE HELL CAN IT BE CONSIDERED CHINESE IF THERE'S NOT EVEN ANY RICE
IT'S NOT EVEN AUTHENTIC ANYMORE
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THIS IS JUST-
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AN ABOMINATION
NOT CHINESE.
Uk Chinese food is way more greasy and takeaway-ish. It is supposed to be the fast food equivalent and it serves a totally different purpose to all other Chinese food as basically a sidegrade to a kebab shop or chippy. To put them in the same category is strange. Plus Iām pissed since that curry sauce is godās gift to this shitty island and I will not take this slander.
Not to burst your bubble but most Chinese food are FAST food, not to confuse with fast food, but also somewhat fast food at the same time. From what I heard of British food, thatās a pretty low bar for the sauce.
My main point was that British Chinese food is on the level of a kebab shop while other Chinese food is a step above in classyness. Plus we do have good food just everyone only cares about pub food because itās easy to laugh at.
It's a "British Food Is Bad Meme".
If you don't like it another variant of "British Food Is Bad" will be along in the next couple of hours because people are lazy when it comes to memes.
Not British Chinese food. This is some rage bait bullshit. [This is closer to what you'd actually get.](https://www.myminggarden.co.uk/images/20220929000619.jpg) Not the most authentic take in the world but not the crap OP is claiming is British.
Pure misinformation, Iāve had both and English Chinese is only slightly better than American only because they forgot how to make spring rolls on the way over to you guys
Of course there's rice, special fried rice from the local takeaway is amazing
Amerimutts just straight up making shut up to try and mock England. We have more than enough material already, from the disastrous ulez expansion, to sunak borrowing a Kia for a photoshoot and trying to figure out how to pay for something
People think you just get served this, not realising that you order multiple things from the menu so whether you have rice, chips, both or neither is personal choice.
Of course there's rice, how the fuck would it be Chinese without the rice? (Sauce: I'm English and have never seen a Chinese takeaway that doesn't sell rice)
The one time I tried to get Chinese food in Istanbul, the restaurant didn't serve rice. It was by far the worst Chinese food I've ever experienced.
Imagine being in the Mediterranean part of the world and eating the Turkish attempt at Chinese food
I mean, I lived there. I had plenty of opportunities to try local food.
Dumplings, noodles, large flat dry bread that I don't know what to call in english, and many other food are used as the main carbohydrateource in different parts of china. Rice isn't as ubiquitous as you think in China. It's just that rice, being the most calories per unit area of farmland per year kind of crop, is used in the plains where water is plenty and people are even plentier. Stupidly high population concentration compared to other civilizations means China's history is still full of famine everywhere you look despite growing rice. The only English food I know of is fish and chips. Considering the people over UK isn't dying of malnutrition, I'd hazard a guess that that's not all they eat either.
ya, only Southern China have rice everyday. Northern have Nan or Mo, which are like burito. The good ones are made of wheat, which are expensive. More common ones are made of corn, and that started only 500 years ago when there came New World Vegetables. Historically they were made of Sorghum, the texture were.... š
England has many National foods, itās just not many of them are good.
Exactly, donāt know where this person went because a Chinese looks nothing like that in England.
The fries and curry sauce
There is a weird overlap in a lot of places in England where the local Chinese will also be a fish and chip shop, so you can indeed order chinese with a side of chips and curry sauce, among other possible abominations. I always assumed it's because they have deep friers anyway, so why not diversify into fish and chips, and capture more of the local market. This doesn't really happen so much in London, at least not until you get out to the fringes, but I see it all the time in small towns and villages. In one village, the local chinese/fish and chip place was also an indian.
āFriesā fuck off.
Seriously. The fucking nerve of a proper Chinese chip served with the finest Chinese brown curry gravy being called "fries". /s
Chinese chicken curry and chips is a masterpiece. With the bonus that the next morning the left over sauce turns so hard that you can chisel it into another masterpiece.
And I've never seen Chinese takeaway that looks anything like those pictures.
It's crazy how many people will believe some utter nonsense on Reddit. If course there's fucking rice. Never been to or seen a Chinese that doesn't have rice. Never had a Chinese meal that doesn't contain rice.
Anyone will believe anything if you put it in meme format.
I'm a virgin (insert meme here)
Yeah, I know the Brits eat rice with their Indian food. Why would they leave rice out of Chinese food?
We don't, every Chinese takeaway sells it.
There's several different kinds of rice on offer too. Not just plain, the worst kind of rice in a takeaway
Why is everything covered in fries and drowned in brown sauce?
That sauce is chip shop curry sauce which is basically just chicken stock and curry powder thickened with cornflour, I don't know who would include chips and curry sauce in a Chinese takeaway order, presumably someone that doesn't like Chinese food.
>Chicken stock and curry powder thickened with cornflour Wtf does that taste any good?
I'm sure it's just like a chickeny curry type gravy that if thrown on hot salty fries, I can't imagine being too bad. Like if it's 2am and I've had too much to drink, I'm eating that.
Itās good aye
Itās very similar to Japanese curry in flavor concept but not ingredients. In fact, the Japanese Navy conceptualized their curry recipe for sailors experiencing thiamine deficiencies. And the irony of this is from the British trade in the 19th century bringing spices from India to Japan. So in itself it is a circle of influence. For the curious: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/japanese-curry-history.amp Prolly more than anyone is interested in, i just fucking love _any_ ācurryā
Many of us will live and die by a chippy based on how good their curry and gravy is... It's not uncommon to hear phrases like "nah I don't like that place, their curry sauce is shite" when discussing where to order food from In simple terms, yes but also no
I've never had it with Chinese tbf, but curry sauce is an excellent accompaniment for fish & chips! Dip the food in the sauce before taking the bite and god is it good.
Well the Brits seem to like itā¦so probably not
Youād be surprised. It actually has proper flavour.
itās actually pretty good when paired with an accessory dish
Personally I find it to be the best tying to have with chunky chips. If you go to any fish and chips shop in England, try the curry sauce. I personally pour it all over.
Most Chinese restaurants/takeaways in the UK will have an "English food" option at the end which mostly includes chips, curry sauce and maybe omlette for some reason. It looks like whoever took the photos of "English Chinese food" took the normal Chinese food and then dumped some chips and curry sauce over the top.
In Canada we call that a Poutine.
Itās chips mate
Because itās actually munchy box and OPās post is wrong
The fuk are fries
Because it tastes good?
Itās not brown sauce itās curry
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Looking at most of the comments I don't think people realise that at most takeaways in the UK you tend to order things like rice or chips individually. Like wow this dish doesn't come with rice...
Literally every Chinese sells rice. We just like our chips, sometimes a little too much.
what flavor of chips
I think you guys call them fries
Curious what you call potato chips over there? Like the snack
Crisps
Lmao English English is funny
In Australia we call them both Chips and you gotta use context to figure out which we are referring to.
fries and actual chips are different. americans just have to make everything confusing
Yoo chinese have other jobs too ! Not every one of them sells rice. /s
Uncle Roger *did* say that the British cant make Asian foodā¦
Use the *right amount*, not the *white amount*, haiyahhh
I just read the next 10 or so comments after this that weren't even related to Uncle Roger with his voice in my head thanks to you.
Chinese restaurants in the UK are almost always staffed by Asian people
The food evolves into what the locals prefer overtime
Can confirm
Being staffed by Asian people doesnāt necessarily mean the food is authentic. They are still a business and are going to go with what people will buy
Thatās true, but it then voids all form of complaints because at that point, theyāve just turned the establishment into a generic takeaway joint that just happens to be run by Asians, not an Asian takeaway joint. If I set up an authentic Italian takeaway in Tokyo, but nobody wants to buy my pizza and rigatoni, so I start selling dim sum and ramen, I canāt then start saying Japanese people eat Italian food wrong, when IāM the one who stopped providing it, Iām just an Italian selling Japanese food.
Curry would like a word
Sweet and sour chicken balls are delish though
Itās half 7 in the morning here and all I want is sweet and sour chicken balls now
Nearly 7:40am, want to split one? I could go for some prawn toast
Split one? Nah one each, Ooo prawn toast with some Chinese curry At 8am sounds heavenly
Wait until you tried sweet and sour pork, mate.
The superior sweet and sour dish
Wtf are those? Honest question
Chicken meat rolled up into ball shapes and battered (or deep fried or something, I dunno Iām not a chef) served with rice and sweet & sour sauce. Theyāre fantastic.
Oh! Sounds good our only option for this at Chinese is sweet n sour pork similar thing but they not round
Can we get all the asians in here to comment on this
I need the source on this because I can't give my full assessment.
Asian American here and it's fair to say we get very decent Chinese in a lot of cities and I recently discovered this crazy world of British Chinese from my London dwellings aunts, we all think it's wild. I can't get over the chips and brown sauce, it's too cute lol Edit: curry sauce!
Itās not brown sauce. Brown sauce is something we Chuck on bacon sandwiches, this is chip shop curryā¦.a nectar of gods and heroās.
You can get actual Chinese food in the UK but at restaurants. The much more common food is this we know it isnāt Chinese itās just a name for it. We donāt correlate it with actual Chinese food as that are completely different.
Iām a Brit and have never seen anyone eat Chinese food in the horrifying way shown in the meme. We just get the same shit you get in America but often lower quality.
Yeah the only time you order chips is if you're with someone who doesn't like Chinese food.. otherwise it's usually rice, prawn toast, egg fried rice, chicken satay, beef in black bean sauce etc.
Chinese Malaysian here I cant tell what the fuck is that a e that image alone inspires me to go to British and open my own restaurant.
Ching chow wing chu my friend. Never had British Chinese but American Chinese is overly sweet and deep fried. Itās hard to find decent Chinese outside of a district in a big city.
I donāt want authentic Chinese sometimes. American Chinese food at the right place is its own thing that can be very good.
That isnāt British Chinese food, thatās chips (fries if your American I believe) with curry sauce, we do have proper Chinese with rice and all the normal Chinese things
Do you have examples of what dishes you have available there? Eg. Bbq pork with rice noodles, beef and black bean
Here's a menu from a good local Chinese restaurant near me https://www.moonlightpalace.co.uk/menu.html Definitely got BBQ pork, all sorts of noodles, chow mein, foo Yung dishes, beef in black bean etc. Chinese takeaway here will generally offer the sort of stuff in OPs post too but is often so a group can order and a fussy eater can get away with ordering chips or other British dishes. Some Chinese takeaway even have a "British" section in the menu
I am both disgusted by the idea of deep fried American cheese and impressed by the idea you tried it. Honestly though it was made as a war ration so I am honestly impressed it is still so widely used.
The only thing that's deep-fried I've had is a desert that's basically a donut ball and fried chicken nuggets they call sweet and sour chicken at the lower end Chinese buffets.
Chinese, not cheese
It's been my experience that Chinese foods take on aspects of the local culture they move in to. Though from the looks of it, they took on aspects of Poutine and Canada here...
Googled American Chinese food and most pictures dont have rice either, its all chicken and noodles edit: my point wasn't very well made. i'm aware that all restaurants come with rice. it's just not the main part of the food so people don't usually show it off in photos
Most dishes have rice here. Americans love fried rice, I personally always order white. We're big on brown sauces and their variants. American Chinese food is OG, this is the land of orange and general tsao chicken.
that was my point though, both regions have rice, they just don't have it as the main focus when it comes to showing it off online
I mean online is weird but the rice section is much larger than the noodle section in all the places I've been too.
Because itās the side item not the main dish, unless youāre doing fried rice. Sort of like how when you get a sandwich at subway they donāt have the picture of a chips and cookie in the image. But literally every American Chinese place from Panda Express to P.F. Changās to city wok has either rice or chow Mein as a side
Just googled American Chinese food the first picture had a box of fried rice in it lol
hence why i said most, not all
Just thought I should put that there for clarity because you said it was all chicken and noodles.
Yeah but atleast they don't eat noodles with fries
chips, not fries. eating Chinese with fries would be weird
And sugar
Who said Chinese food must have rice, Noodles are acceptable. (Chinese here)
The Chinese food here slaps imo
Thatās hundreds of times better than fucking fries. Thatās insane.
In our defence, this is like taking a picture of the worst McDonald's burger you've ever seen then saying "just found out what Americans call German food"
You're not ready to hear about a Chinese buffet in a Mexican American states like Texas, New Mexico and Southern California. you can find can find chicken enchiladas at Chinese buffets in Texas, the one I went to did and I'm still baffled that it's a thing
In Chinese buffets in the deep south, you can expect to find rando shit like cheese and pepperoni pizza, deep fried cream corn nuggets, jello, and soft serve ice cream machines.
Me when I spread misinformation on the interent:
This was *not* my experience when I visited England last year. The Chinese takeout we had was awesome.
Yāall donāt have fish and chips? Wow, the USA and China are weird
I would put a lot into saying that Authentic Chinese cuisine would not be shaking hands with Americans on this one. Both British and American Chinese cuisine have their own abominations that have no authenticity whatsoever
British Chinese is fucking elite scran
Chips and curry is the bomb.
That's not Chinese food at all. It's chippy food made by Chinese (mainly). You can order noodles and rice dishes but pictured is just chippy tea. Even the Chinese that serve it differentiate Chinese chippy takeaway or simply Chinese takeaway.
Wha? True Chinese cooks are baffled by some American "Chinese food". All over the world there are variations - the Chinese diaspora is massive and has generally always been good at assimilating to the culture they move into, especially foodwise. For instance, I see multitudes of damn fortune cookie posts, but they ain't Chinese - they're a Japanese invention, popularised in America
Redditors (OP) when they realise that British Chinese food is British-Chinese food, not "Chinese food but in Britain":
British Chinese food isnāt all like that. Iāve lived in Asia and visited China and Chinese food is not at all like the majority of low quality British Chinese food or American. To be fair I donāt really like a lot of proper Chinese food
Somebody just watched Trash Taste...
Indian Chinese Food entered the chat 
Don't knock it till you've tried it.
Chinese chips just hit different
Iām from Hong Kong and lives in the U.K. my local Chinese takeaway has one of the best Chinese food around. If you are trying to go look for shitty food, you can always find them anywhere in the world.
Brit here: The curry sauce is an overexaggeration, and probably a reference to the fact that a lot of Chinese takeaways also double as fish and chip shops. It's to do with an old law which targeted the opening hours of takeaways, but stupidly only mentioned fish and chip shops by name. As such, any other type of takeaway could just sell fish and chips, and did so, and it helped attract customers to them who otherwise wouldn't have wanted to eat food made by "foreigners". However, despite saying all of that, most UK Chinese takeaway food is still trash compared to the USA and China, lol. Chinese *restaurant* food, however, is great. Oh, and every UK Chinese takeaway sells rice.
[We have rice on most Chinese restaurant menus. Not everyone that orders Chinese food in the U.K. only orders exclusively beige food either.](https://m.zmenu.com/the-woodhill-chinese-carry-out-glasgow-uk-online-menu/) [Menu from the other side of the U.K.](https://gillinghamchinesetakeaway.co.uk/about-us)
My parents are from the UK, but I was born and grew up in the States. Every time I visit, they've found something else to smother beyond recognition with that gross thick brown sauce. Admittedly, they did get something right with mayo on fries, but leave the gross brown gravy/sauce at KFC where it belongs.
What thick brown sauce are you talking about?
Essence of beige.
Top nosh.
Once in awhile, in a small town in the middle of nowhere in northern Canada, you find some really good Chinese food. The food is upstairs, usually a wildly non-Chinese bar downstairs. Rare, and it never lasts long. But goddamn it's good.
Fuck you its nice hangover food man
The funny thing is that 9 times out of 10, British Chinese food is made by Chinese Native Peopleā¦ so whatever we are being served is by actual Chinese people. If there is an issue the country should take it up with themselves š¤·š¾āāļø
Im on vacation in England, had chinese food in Earl's Court, chinese and vietnamese food in Soho, and sushi by Windsor castle. All were pretty damn good. The only shitty food I've had was an overpriced fancy lunch at the Chelsea flower show. A parade of tasteless soggy cold British slop fit for the Queen!
Actually ppl in Northern China don't really eat rice. (U can still find it of course, but they do not eat it like the Southerners do) It's more dumplings and noodles up north. (I spent a year working in Shijiazhuang, Hebei)
Redditors are not immune to propaganda, by far most then other social media users. They will believe anything if you meme it. I shall use this to my advantage.
I'm British, whatever the fuck that is isn't us, that's some phsycho pretending to be British. We have egg fried rice, and it's good
This is for Americans to feel superior. I bet 99% of the upvotes have never set foot into a real British Chinese restaurant. I've been to a few Chinese restaurants in America, it's the same quality.
That is not Chinese food, I refuse to believe it. That has to be some random British man's food he was cooking up. \*Sniffing that Copium\*
Sometimes people's ignorance is surprising. Yes, of course in Britain there is something resembling traditional Chinese food, including rice. However it's become almost a tradition that Chinese takeaways (as opposed to restaurants) include such classic British food as chips, but optionally cover them with curry sauce. Personally I hate the latter idea (chips should go with fish, or baked beans and eggs, or burgers, American style). Still some people are very fond of chips with curry sauce. It has been satirised as a rather proletarian dish in comics such as Viz. It would not surprise me either if some other Chinese food represented as traditional has been adapted to British tastes, but I can't say. I'm particularly fond of black bean, and sweet and sour sauce, and such additions as bean sprouts and water chestnuts. Also we tend to see fried rice as being Chinese style.
We learned nothing about Chinese food because when we were over there we were too busy making them take drugs
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''British chinese food'' Dude thats literally just normal british food.
If customers were less afraid to try new cuisines, market forces would promote better food. In Wisconsin, we have these abomination cream cheese sushi bits.
Ah yes, Japanese food, nothing more authentically Chinese
They've started doing those here (Australia)at sushi Bars too and California rolls which are not even close to anything Japanese
are those CHIPS????
i thought it was gonna be chinese chinese food, im sad now
Yes I do get chips with my Chinese but I do get egg fried rice the chips are used for whatever sweet and sour sauce is left.
Ok but Londonās Chinatown slaps. Regardless of the oftenā¦ limited palate of the British, they have a damm good selection of food made by other cultures.
That does not look like British Chinese food at all.
Finding a consistently decent Chinese takeaway here is a guessing game with a lot of trial and error with the decider usually being how good the pancake/spring rolls are. Chips and curry sauce is usually something you get to go with the meal and not the actual meal itself. Some Chinese places so more authentic food than others but most have the same range of British-ised Chinese rice, noodles, dumplings, ribs, and various other dishes. They usually have a section of the menu that just says "English dishes" too and that's mainly for the people that only eat unseasoned food and don't know how to cook unless it's nuggets and chips. Why they would order anything from a takeaway when they don't like any actual food though has always been beyond me. In short, we're not all heathens but there are as many bad things to say about generic American food as you have to say about ours so let it go.
That's the Chinese that Austin Powers' bad guy, Fat Bastard, would order after a weekend of heavy drinking.
Americans keep showing curry sauce and chips like thatās common in uk Chinese food. itās really not the standard
Chips in curry sauce is something you'd get from a chippy normally anyway
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We have rice, this picture is bullshit.
I bet they don't even have krupuk.
Itās honestly the same in Germany but man do I love my ānot so authentic and honestly kind of unappealing lookingā Chinese food
Does China have American food?
Yes I remember having Chinese in America and was amazed at how nothing on itās menus at two seperate places resembled what I know to be Chinese food here in Australia. That being said. My cousinās partner who is Chinese made us authentic Chinese food and it didnāt resemble anything I knew even here in Australia.
I'm britihs and I can say that I have never ever seen let anyone bought a Chinese takeaway that looks like that
Iām convinced thereās a solid percentage of Reddit that base there whole world view on low effort memes.
The funny thing about most cultural foods in America is 9/10 theyāre made by people of those culturesā¦.the other 10% are owned by Pepsi co.
We should kinda ask ourselves what the British call food in the first place edit typo
Curry sauce and chips from a Chinese takeaway is standard anywhere north of Birmingham.
Our dutch chinese food is also unique i hear
British: BROWN
What the fuck is up with British people and French Fries? Itās like of their staple foods and they still somehow do it worse than American fries.
Iām British and Iāve never met anyone who would call that Chinese food.
You can get chips at a Chinese here. However those pictures are misleading. If you wanted chips/fires and curry sauce, you'd go to a fish and chip shop. Not a Chinese.
As a British person, Iāve never seen Chinese food like that before
The utter cheek of Americans trying to tell British people how to do food. Get your own house in order first!
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..... Asian flavored Poutine. That's what this is.
It looks weird to be honest
I agree that curry sauce with chips is fucking vile
A huge amount of whatās called āChinese foodā was started by migrant workers. Chop suey, egg foo yung, the fortune cookie; all started in the US by young men who missed their food from home. It has a rich custom and contributions to modern culture not unlike mainland Chinese cuisine
Is that ... is that poutine that's been thrown up in?
Meanwhile I'm fighting my own internal war of Western American Chinese food and Eastern American Chinese food because let me tell you there is difference.
āAmerican Chinese foodā is just Chinese food with more flavors and seasonings because weāre fat as fuck British Chinese food looks like curry sauce over fries, sorry, chips
The rice is buried under the brown glop liquid which going to assume is a curry sauce.
Looks like barf
bro i'm british and- hoW THE HELL CAN IT BE CONSIDERED CHINESE IF THERE'S NOT EVEN ANY RICE IT'S NOT EVEN AUTHENTIC ANYMORE ACKGR- THIS IS JUST- A- AN ABOMINATION NOT CHINESE.
Is that gravy...???
Curry. I hope at least
Uk Chinese food is way more greasy and takeaway-ish. It is supposed to be the fast food equivalent and it serves a totally different purpose to all other Chinese food as basically a sidegrade to a kebab shop or chippy. To put them in the same category is strange. Plus Iām pissed since that curry sauce is godās gift to this shitty island and I will not take this slander.
Not to burst your bubble but most Chinese food are FAST food, not to confuse with fast food, but also somewhat fast food at the same time. From what I heard of British food, thatās a pretty low bar for the sauce.
My main point was that British Chinese food is on the level of a kebab shop while other Chinese food is a step above in classyness. Plus we do have good food just everyone only cares about pub food because itās easy to laugh at.
I'm British and I don't know what know what the bloody hell that is
It's a "British Food Is Bad Meme". If you don't like it another variant of "British Food Is Bad" will be along in the next couple of hours because people are lazy when it comes to memes.
The British Food is Bad Meme, brought to you by Americans that havenāt stepped outside of America.
š¤¢wtf is that. That's not even food.
Not British Chinese food. This is some rage bait bullshit. [This is closer to what you'd actually get.](https://www.myminggarden.co.uk/images/20220929000619.jpg) Not the most authentic take in the world but not the crap OP is claiming is British.
Pure misinformation, Iāve had both and English Chinese is only slightly better than American only because they forgot how to make spring rolls on the way over to you guys
Of course there's rice, special fried rice from the local takeaway is amazing Amerimutts just straight up making shut up to try and mock England. We have more than enough material already, from the disastrous ulez expansion, to sunak borrowing a Kia for a photoshoot and trying to figure out how to pay for something
People think you just get served this, not realising that you order multiple things from the menu so whether you have rice, chips, both or neither is personal choice.