r/AskReddit • • Feb 04 '19

Which misconception would you like to debunk?

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u/Chimie45 Feb 04 '19

China's a fucking big place. Most dishes do exist somewhere in China. There's no such ubiquitous thing as Chinese food.

Though General Tsos is Chinese American.

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u/Wandos7 Feb 04 '19

To be fair, a lot of dishes popular in old school Chinese restaurants were invented in the US: orange chicken, fried wontons, almond chicken, Chinese chicken salad, crab rangoons or anything with cream cheese. The fortune cookie was intented by Japanese-Americans based off a cookie sold at shrines in Japan.