Do Chinese people like American Chinese food?

Meet Fung and Dave, two Americans who opened up a Chinese-American restaurant in Shanghai, where the cooks shake their heads at dishes like crab ... read more

For these people, there isn't any food they all generally like the most, because they eat a wide variety of Chinese food, like Chinese people do. Most of the authentic Chinese restaurants in the US are Cantonese, Sichuanese, and some Shanghainese. read more

Given that most Chinese people wouldn't recognize a plate of sticky orange chicken if it was splattered in their face, it seems an odd move to open an eatery almost exclusively serving American-style Chinese food in the middle of Shanghai. read more

“Generally American-Chinese restaurants don’t do lamb, and they tend not to like jelly textures.” Sichuan, for one, has a rabbit dish that is literally more bones than meat. The difference is that Chinese people put a premium on texture. read more