Is the Chinese food you get in your country really Chinese?

I always wonder this when I order some Chinese from those Fast Food chains we have in America like Panda Express. Even though the workers are Chinese, is the food I'm easting considered "real" Chinese? I have a feeling they have adjusted some of the flavors for us Americans. I also wonder this same thing about the Indian food I eat in America. I used to go to this Indian buffet (owned and operated by Indians) for lunch and I loved the food. Chicken Masala, and Veggie Pakora...Mmmm. I would love to go to China and India to try the real stuff. I have been living in Egypt for three years and I am sick of their food, lol.

Most of the chinese food that we get here in chennai are really the Indo chinese stuff and i really love them since they have the needed mix of masalas that we Indians need and once i have tasted the real chinese stuff in a five star hotel in chennai and it was cokked and served by a chinese person and to be frank it was really worst i wonder how chinese people are eatiing dishes like these and i hope that they also get to eat our dishes and better change to our styles..

Yes, of course. I am a chinese and now living in china. Haha! Chinese food is delicious, lol. I advise you come to our country, then you can eat the genuine chinese food. Maybe what you have eaten are all not genuine. Every kind of dishes have its own origins, I myself also can not eat the genuine food for every dishes. Happy mylotting!

The Chinese food I got overseas are mostly adapted to cater for the local customers. Not so oily, but not so delicate, and usually in much larger portions. There must be exceptions, once in Toronto, in the new Chinese town, I was invited to a Shanghai Restaurant. Its food are even better than what i have in here.

I am living at Georgia, Atlanta here. The Chinese food we are having is not authentic Chinese food either. It was American - Chinese food if your prefer this name. It was adapted to local taste with the Chinese style. Either way, I still love the authentic Chinese food better than others. Because the original always the best.

I think the same even i am from Indian and the chinese we get over here is not at all the real chinese. It doesn`t have that original chinese taste in it. Over here it`s just noodles and the spices which is being used is the typical indian one so what we get is Indo-chinese dish and it`s quite spicy while i think the real chinese is not that much spicy in taste.

im not sure either if im eating authentic chinese food as well. but here in our country, its not hard to find chinese foods since most of the chinese ingredients are commonly found in supermarkets here everywhere.

I cannot say about that.But i know the taste of chinese food is very good.I too happened to go to a big restaurant for chinese food.They way they served it was completely different and i did not like it.I cannot go to a pure chinese restaurant and waste money for the real chinese food.I would prefer to go to a normal restaurant and have chinese food.

Vishnus- We have a few types here in this country. Where I reside in MN, my husband and I go to two authentic Chinese restaurants, and one authentic Cambodian restaurant. We've been to one Japanese house since being here but we've not had the chance to go back as it is very costly. Namaste-Anora

Actually there's no such thing as "real Chinese" food. Different parts of China has different ways of cooking. Personally I love Sichuan food and Guangzhou food. I find that people there are more daring in experimenting with spices. Generally the staple food for the people in the northern part of China is dumplings, while rice is the staple food for the people in the southern part of China.

Frankly speaking, the food in south China is more delicious than the one in the north. Although I have never been abroad, i like north Chinese food. Happy mylotting!

Well, I'm here in America and I believe the Chinese food we have here is genuine. Most Chinese resturants have Chinese people working there so I would imagine they had a say in the menu. But I suppose some resturants are different then others, that is the beauty of individualism and variety. Maybe original Chinese food is too rich for some people so they don't use the exact ingredients or as much of something as another cook would? Chinese food is actually my favorite!

The food in my country is really really really really 100% Chinaese,,,,, O(n_n)O--------because I am a Chinese and lving in China,,, haha,thanks for your attention for our food,haha, if you have spare time ,please visit China,eat chinese food,,,haha

I really love Chinese food... There's a lot of Chinese Resto here in PI. For me Yang Chao rice is the best combined with Tofu. =)

Here in Calcutta, Chinese is the next favourite food after the local Bengali cuisine…BUT the chinese food we get here would make the Chinese roll in their graves! Its typically Calcutta Chinese with lots of spices and sauces though the variety is restricted to local vegetables and eggs and chicken and pork at a few select places. There are a lot of chinese additions which does not go down well with the Indian palate and the Calcutta cooks have been fast to innovate. The most popular is Fried Rice-Chilli Chicken combo which you will get from fancy 5 star restaurants to roadside eateries and this makes a great food anytime.

I think chinese food is different taste in every country, in korea there is korea-chinese food, i have been to chinese restaurant in korea, the food is more sweeter than the one in china,koreans like more korea-chinese food than real chinese food,too.also in china.there is southern food and northern food in china, and i like southern foood which has guangdong food and shanghai food,zhengjiang food...

There are lots of American Chinese food around here but sometimes I can find some real Chinese food if I am lucky :-p

The Chinese food in the United States is not really Chinese. I recently learned from a Chinese friend that he and his family does not eat the foods as main courses that you find in Chinese restaurants. Most Chinese foods in most restaurants change the versions of real Chinese food to suite and adjust the taste of the surrounding people. You can always find true Chinese food in China.

hi there, i am chinese, and i like chinese food very much, especially north. chinese food have different flavors, different provinces have different food. but in principle, divided into two parts: north and south. usually, the same dish have different ways of doing in different places. so, if you can come to china, you can taste by youself, maybe you will like some of them. welcome!!!

i think most countries would have there different variations on most food types.