Letters to the Editor
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Tasty
Being Chinese-American, I think of myself a little like the Chinese food in America. I'm tasty and certainly look ethnic, but my relatives in China don't really think of me as Chinese. The same holds for Chinese-American food. I like it, and done well it stands on it's own merit.
As for food in China, I'll echo many other commentators and say it's incredibly diverse and hard to pigeonhole. There's good and a bad which is often a matter of taste. There's conventional and the strange. While true that Chinese are willing to entertain thoughts of eating anything, it doesn't mean they eat the family pet or eat only odd items. Personally, even though my family is from Shanghai, I've longed preferred Sichuan cuisine even before it became the new hip chinese cuisine.