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[Dev]

My school took me out for Chinese food last week. They got my hopes high when they said "We're not going to a usual Chinese restaurant. We're going to an expensive one and the portions are small."

Not surprisingly I thought the food was very unremarkable. Jajang myeon, that rice porridge stuff, deep fried breaded squid and just to add some authenticity, kimchi.

Well, at least the decor was nice.

This got me to thinking, "Are there any actual Chinese cooks in Korea who cook up good Chinese food?"

The Indian restaurants are quite good here because they have actual Indian cooks.

[lowpo]

[the eye]

There are Japanese restaurants with Japanese cooks, too.
Can anyone tell me what 1+1 is?

[rothkowitz]

Good question.Perhaps mainly only in hotel restaurants.

Vietnamese restaurants sure don't have Vietnamese chefs.It would just be too "ethnic" if they did.I love how they rate the menu sections into more or less adventuresome.It all ends up pretty bland and samey with no spice or herbs to speak of being used.

[Dev]

I just ask this question because it would seem easy and cheap enough to get some Chinese chefs over here (like the Indian chefs in the Indian restaurants) and cook up some nice food.

They hire and import Turks to stand around in department stores here and cut lamb to make Gyros.

Sadly, it seems like Koreans think they're skilled enough in this area to make good Chinese food.

Could it be that the Koreans don't like the Chinese?

[rothkowitz]

[DCJames]

[chronicpride]

[Qinella]

[Yaya]

In the restaurant Wanchai in Sinchon, Seoul, the cooks are ethnic Koreans from China. The thing is, most of them are from Shandong province and thus the best you can expect is SHANDONG cuisine, which is a far cry from Szechuan and Cantonese.

The situation is the same in Incheon's Chinatown.

[xingyiman]

[lowpo]

[princess]

Go to Asia Chow by Dosan Park. Real Chinese food, like Kung Pao chicken, but the cooks are actually Korean. You don't have to be Chinese to cook Chinese food. You don't have to be Korean to cook Korean food. You don't have to be Mexican to cook Mexican food, etc. Why can't anyone ever understand this????? I cook well, and I can cook food from different countries, not just American stuff like potato salad. And, yes, jjajang is Korean-style Chinese food. I have never heard a Korean say they think it is actual Chinese food.

[weatherman]

exit suwon station and turn your foot right; go past the police box and take the steps and over pass across the road. Go on in the same direction. Should be able to see a building with all chinese signs, (the road drops and splits into lanes and an underpass in front) Menu all in chinese, (not a lick Korean on it) They have chinese beer. The Lamb sha-bu Sha-bu is wonderful......

(Plus, those chinese stores are a great and cheap place to buy bottled, good tasting, beer!)

[djsmnc]

It is a little depressing in Korea not to have hole-in-the wall restaurants that serve greasy nuggets of batter and chicken smothered in corn syrup and pepper like General Tso's and Sesame chicken.

"Whi lice? Fly lice?"

I think that's why I've always stayed trim in Korea.