La Puce wrote:
Mike Lyle wrote:

Why, I wonder, does the rather omnivorous Chinese cuisine
typically
not include potatoes? Is it just cultural conservatism? Or that
we're
exposed only to Cantonese and Peking cookery? We've been eating
rice
for a couple of hundred years, and that has to be imported: they
must
have plenty of places where Murphies would do well.

How funny. I've never notice the lack of potatoe recipes in chinese
restaurants or take away, beside the chinese potato shoestring
salade.
However China is the world biggest potatoe grower and exporter!


http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2...y7467111t0.asp

Thanks for that link: interesting. I assume, then, that the lack of
recipes in my books and in restaurants I have visited is indeed a
matter of regionalism.

--
Mike.