Multicultural cuisine in America has always fallen a little short of accurately representing the flavors and styles found in the native cooking of the dishes we import. To serve an American audience, many recipes have a great deal of their most flavorful ingredients (like spices) left out or included in drastically reduced quantities. This trend is even more prevalent in Asian cooking, where the western adaptation often is incomparable with the original dish.In a truly American fashion, Chinese and Japanese restaurants in the states feature heaping portions of sauteed, pan fried, or deep fried meat and often contain vegetables only as a side dish or garnish. The sauces too have seen the influence of America's junk food-hungry culture. Typical American Teriyaki sauce contains three to four times as much sugar as a common Asian recipe calls for. That is, of course, simply a result of demand. The reason Chinese restaurateurs cook fried, salted meats and sugary, candy-like entrees is because more traditional vegetable dishes just don't sell as well. American diners would rather pretend to experience another culture's cooking styles while staying firmly supported by the familiar, overwhelming flavors of sugar and fat.
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I myself have no need or desire to check the facts you have put forth in this blog, so I will just assume that you are all knowing. However one thing you forgot to mention in you crusade to bitch about how the less salty and sugary origins were not kept once ethnic dishes were introduced to good old americans, Is that some of these dishes are creative genius . Fried sushi is I dare say is possibly one of the tastiest things I have ever eaten, when it comes to sushi of corse. In fact the some of the best things I have ever tasted in my life have been a product of food fusion. a good example is from the food network, Roasted butternut squash soup, if you don't believe me look it up it's part of the Emeril live selection, and is possibly the best soup you will ever taste. After you have licked the bowl clean tell me that food fusion is stupid. If you also want a good restaurant example, Izakaya Den In denver, will redefine what you think good food is, and for sushi the Sushi Den across the street is wonderful, however the Izakaya Den Illustrates my point beautifully.
Personally I think reinvention of well received dishes, or fusions with other cultures is what makes new, exciting and much more decadent foods.
So on the whole I would have to say to the contrary, Fried Sushi is Right as Rain.
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