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.

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Mike.

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

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.

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Mike.

Mike Lyle ) wrote (uk.rec.gardening):

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.

I spent 2.5 months in China, in a largely agricultural region of Hunan,
from September onwards last year (2005). Potatoes were a very frequent
and popular dish, done in a variety of ways, and they were present in
almost every meal I ate in people's homes, and were often ordered by
others when I ate out with them. I asked and was assured that they were
not just doing this "for me", and that potatoes are quite popular in
China, at least in that region.

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