notyou2 wrote:khazalid wrote:to be fair, the edit was probably accurate, wasn't it?
Umm...I think I have had green curry (yellow and red many times). Is green Chinese? I thought I had it in a Thai restaurant though.
i think the point being made was in reference to the breadth of food you may have sampled. for most people, green curry = thai; sweet and sour chicken balls = chinese.
how and ever...
green curry is possibly thai, although the origins of most asian cuisines are sketchy at best (mongolia being one notable exception, given that nobody else has attempted to claim mutton, potatoes and salt milk tea as their own). that ubiquitously 'thai' dish - pad thai, for instance (and the noodle, in general), was almost certainly introduced by chinese merchants / immigrants / castaways as thailand had always been a rice country. the addition of lime, galangal, lemongrass and coconut milk were likely a symbiosis of local flavour and international staple.
that aside, china is an enormous place of billions of people, and food varies widely from region to region and amongst different cultures and ethnicities. you can get anything here from barbecued snake to monkey brain, and some normal, non-rancid shit in between. some of it is pretty darn good, and unlike anything 'chinese' i'd eaten previously in the west.