/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>why [do] 90% of Chinese restaurants in America have the same tasting food
Because www.c-r-n.com
I know you can't read Chinese, but that's Chinese Restaurant News. As the name implies, it's a magazine and website where Chinese restaurant owners read about news pertaining to owning a Chinese restaurant. There are a bunch of adverts in there for X-brand of General Tso's sauce and Y-brand Sichuan sauce and Z-brand black bean sauce and restaurant owners buy those brands they know and trust or they've heard of through word of mouth.
>is there a GO-TO cookbook that they all use before opening their restaurant?
>many restaurants seem to use the same recipes as the other
No. They just all use the same suppliers of their ingredients. It's akin to chain restaurants all using Sysco.
>I've tried numerous recipes I've found online to duplicate the taste at home and none have been quite the same as in a restaurant
Cuz you don't have access to the same suppliers of the ready-made sauces and flavorings.
>I've come to the point where I want to call up my local Chinese restaurant and somehow get the recipe out of them.
I'd give you some, but it wouldn't help unless ya wanna buy a 10gallon bucket of sauce.

>>12738608
I literally haven't seen a constructive post on /ck/ for probably a year, good job man, do you work in a chinese restaraunt?

>>12738459
>Chinese food places all have Chinese food which tastes like Chinese food
You've never been accused of being overly intelligent, have you?

Yeah and it's the same thing with indians and most other diaspora, though to different degree organized. One chef finds a recipe that appeals to local paletes, workers from those places open their own places based on the formula and thus it spreads.

>>12738608
Well this makes sense. I always assumed it was because they all opened up in the boomer era and were attempting to overly Americanize their flavors

>>12738459
there's an entire industry that trains and opens Chinese restaurants. They give you a menu, train you, and tell you where to open a restaurant. The agency sends you new immigrants to use as cooks when they get established in america they quit and the agency sends you new cooks

>>12738459
https://www.sysco.com/Contact/Contact/Our-Locations/Asian-Foods

>>12738693
Nah, I don't. This is just common knowledge in Chinese-speaking circles and I'm not even fluent.

do they actually make the Thai rolls in-house

>>12738608

I should have expected it to be bought in bulk from a supplier like Sysco. Thanks Anon!

>>12738700
/thread and checked

>>12738734
This.

I for one figured it was a racket run by the Chinese government to insert shock troops behind the lines. Stage one will be mass poisoning and then all of the workers will activate as soldiers. It would be a great initial surprise attack.

>>12738734
>The agency sends you new immigrants to use as cooks

Indentured slaves, not immigrants.

>>12738459
It's that they par boil stuff before stir frying in ultra hot wok
Mostly technique and base ingredients soy sauce and peanut oil along with sesame sead oil
Better Chinese foods restraunts use multiple fish and oyster sauces for beef or whatever

>>12738996
just as mao started the revolution