Chinese fast food

China is known for its food. They are like the French. Only much more.

And so what do you do if you have a rich tradition of fine cooking in your land, and you find yourself in a strange land without any of the fresh local ingredients that are needed to make authentic Cantonese food back home?

You use your skills and invent a yummy new food using the ingredients that Are available in 19th Century California.

Presto! Chinese fast food.

That's the Chinese fast food that America has fallen in love with!

This is food invented by Chinese immigrants here in America, mostly from Canton, who didn't have the fresh local ingredients grown in Canton that they needed to make authentic Cantonese food, but had all the cooking skills of a country that loves good food even as the French do- and so they invented a new food, for Chinese immigrants in California, made from the local fresh food from California!

Maybe that's why the Chinese fast food is so good here in California- not only is it made (in the best obscure small local places) by authentic Chinese Americans, the people that invented this Chinese fast food in the California of the 19th Century, but we have the fresh local ingredients of California that the food was invented for!

That's what Chinese fast food in America is, and where it came from!

It was invented by Chinese immigrants from Canton in California!

By people steeped in two thousand years of fine Chinese cuisine in many, many forms!

God loves you!

Sincerely,

David S. Annderson